FMEA

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a tool that can assist in identifying where your areas of risk lie and helps structure solutions.…

Team roles

The Belbin team roles are used to help create effective and balanced teams.  Few individuals are strong in all of these roles, so ensuring you…

Ensuring that lean and six sigma projects are successful

The Lean Enterprise Institute surveys show that 36% of companies attempting lean give up the efforts. Customer Relationship Magazine cites 60% of…

Do you care as a leader?

A key aspect of quality management is the importance we place on employees, valuing people. We spend a significant amount of time and money…

Innovation and creative problem solving

Being creative and innovative is something that is widely touted, but how do we actually do it?

This may be needed for a particular issue…

Has risk management become a higher priority for you?

A Risk Management Benchmarking Survey in 2010 showed that 65% of businesses conduct no form of risk analysis prior to making major corporate…

Construction Quality

Rework—What It Is and Ways to Avoid It

Rework is a common cause of schedule creep and cost overruns. Here's how to know what failures trigger rework so you can avoid them 

Flat empowered organizational structures

Flat, team based and empowered organizations have the potential to out-perform tall hierarchical organizations in most every competitive industry…

Like changing a wheel while the car is still moving

Process improvement can often be received with impatience and inflated expectations of its impact. One of the regular problems is that a…

Don’t paint yourself into a corner and create a negative work environment

Often managers set goals for employees such as a minimum number of units to be produced each week and once this is achieved on a regular basis,…