Industry  Incubator and acceleration of technological innovation Localisation  France Project type ​General management roadmap definition User  Wevalgo

  Industry  Production of aluminium parts Localisation  Germany Project type ​Plant management diagnostics for operational improvement User  Free-lance Consultant

  Sector   Environmental management  Location  US, Europe, Asia Type of project   Operational Excellence Diagnosis of the 30 most senior managers User  Director of Improvement

Effective meetings are a critical part of business performance. We have conducted a study of 20 popular websites giving advice on effective meeting rules.

Why do a digital maturity diagnosis?   A study conducted by MIT and Capgemini found that companies with the highest level of maturity are 26% more successful than the average company in their industry. They have a 9% higher revenue per employee and a 12% higher valuation than the average.Digital is a strong lever for competitiveness and performance.It is therefore important for you to know if your digital maturity is sufficient to give you another competitive advantage and in which areas it needs to be improved.

Effectively leading an organisation means taking the most relevant actions at the right time. To do this, the manager has methods for analysing causes and two types of indicators: "advanced" indicators and result indicators (known as "delayed" indicators). The former allow the actions that are supposed to have an impact on the result to be monitore...

Industry   Environmental Management Localisation  US, Europe, Asia Project type    Diagnosis of Operational Excellence with the 30 top managers User  Corporate Director of Improvement

The world is affected by Coronavirus and many employees have to stay at home and telework. The online meetings and conferencing business is an unintended beneficiary of Covid-19.

How many times have we looked for Lean manufacturing assessment tools or analysis tools, such as Lean maturity Excel scoring? For my part, often by spending a lot of time on Google or by asking my fellow consultants. With not always satisfactory results.

Lean Manufacturing has been adopted by a large number of companies because it increases productivity, improves quality and reduces costs, while cutting production cycle times. Lean Manufacturing is a philosophy rather than a methodology. It focuses on reducing "8 wastes" and is based on the key principles of Customer Value, Continuous Improvement and Respect for the Individual.

What is DFM?  DFM meaning is Design for Manufacturing. It is an engineering design methodology to reduce the complexity of manufacturing operations and the overall cost of production including the cost of raw materials. What is DFA?  DFA meaning is Design for Assembly. It is a engineering design methodology  to facilitate or reduce the assembly operations of parts or components of a product.

If there is one function whose performance is difficult to measure, it is Research and Development. Similarly, to set up processes, standards and rules to improve this performance.

Financiers consider employees as expenses and not investments. Many managers prefer to invest in machines or IT systems rather than people. But it's a mistake. A financial mistake. A managerial mistake.

Why an improved Strategy implementation method ? A very popular (and good) Strategy implementation method is called Hoshin Karin. However, this method as some issues explained in this « point of view » outlined below.

Hoshin Kanri: a reminder of its definition and origins Hoshin Kanri's literal translation (方針管理) is "compass management" or "management of the direction". It is a methodology for deploying corporate policy or strategy, or in a broader sense, for deploying "breakthroughs" such as transformation or change programs.It was developed in the 1960s and 1970s in Japan, notably by a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard and Bridgestone. It has its origins in a mixture of Management By Objectives (by P. Drucker), the teachings of W. Edwards Deming (notably known for the PDCA) and Joseph M. Juran at seminars in Japan.

The 5S methodology is an approach that brings many benefits and can be very well accepted by the users. Nevertheless, if its implementation does not apply a rigorous process, it quickly becomes a burden and can bring Lean into disrepute...and the managers with it.

There are many tools for improving the performance of organizations and a significant part of them are "Lean tools" or "Lean methodologies", derived from the "Toyota Production System" or theorised in the books by J. Womack, T. Jones and D. Roos ("The machine that changed the world" and "Lean Thinking").

How many Lean principles exist, 2, 5, 7 or 14? And which ones are the true Lean principles? Indeed, the Lean principles are defined in numerous books, publications and reference websites on Lean. 

Lean was neither created in a day, nor only at Toyota. Here is the history of Lean and how it has evolved from Henry Ford to today.

An operational audit of an organisation consists in evaluating the organization of a company. But the scope of the organisation is so vast (strategy, governance, functions, leadership, business processes, tools and information systems...), and the objective of the audit so varied, that no two audits are the same.