It's all about the strings, not the puppet show Thinking about the year ahead, here are some good reasons to enter Manufacturing Awards...

It's all about your people and their skills As you walk the aisles of the Smart Expo and lean in to listen to the sessions during Digital...

As many of you know we, at Sempai, have been busy testing our new Lean Toolkit App (SempaiGuide) with some amazing manufacturers. We all...

The title of this blog is a line from a poem by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado. He died in 1939 so would have no idea that his poem...

"Bridging the gap between Industry 4.0 vendors & manufacturers" As an unintended consequence of my lean work I’ve spent the last 2 years...

A blog like this would usually be titled "Best of..." but I don't subscribe to the idea of "best" when it comes to knowledge transfer....

Almost done now. If you missed Part 1 click here, Part 2 is here. If not, here's the final scuffle with the UK Director. 30 October I...

If you missed Part 1 click here. If not, here's the continued wrangle with the Dealer Principal. 30 September I wrote to [Dealer...

The downside of growing lean skill is the gnawing certainty that almost all systems are broken, creating varying degrees of pain for...

A blog like this would usually be titled "Best of..." but I don't subscribe to the idea of "best" when it comes to knowledge transfer....

Whatever happens on Saturday in Yokohama, we’re in for a deluge of articles & blogs about the magic of Eddie Jones and the England Rugby...

Along with death & taxes, I may have discovered another certainty in life: you never know what your kids are going to retain as useful...

Problem Solving & Movies are two things I like. The former I’ve been coaching for 20 years; sometimes well, sometimes badly. The latter...

…about sharpening your eyes but not in a random way. The tweet above was from a photo I took whilst waiting for an old mentee to join me...

This blog should bring a little comfort to lean thinkers, but first let me explain the re-enacted picture above. Having put down my...

Inspired by Michael Balle's recent Obeya article sharing his mistakes, here are a few of mine from 2018. Less is more so, to keep it...

In today's blog, I present no answers, only a question I have no answer for. In about 5 minutes you'll be contemplating the irony of this...

First blog of 2018 and I’m sure the suspense has been killing you. This post is about forcing deeper learning in a coaching exchange....

Last week I recounted the story of Gary feeding back to Tony (#37) after his Team Brief. I hinted pretty heavily that neither a...

Last Thursday I observed a Team Brief at shift start up, delivered by a fledging Team Leader who we’ll call Tony. By my reckoning, I’ve...