Business Excellence services
Business Health Checks
Using the Business Excellence framework we can help you understand how effective your strategy is satisfying your customers, looking after your people, driving financial results or ensuring your processes are effective.
We've carried out these assessments in a number of different sectors from manufacturing, to public sector, to the training sector and even social enterprise. Get in touch if you want to achieve business excellence.
Continuous Improvement
Over the years we've delivered various training courses, including lean, lean six sigma, PDCA and others. Our continuous improvement toolbox is ready to be deployed for whatever problem arises. But it is more than tools, we understand that people and culture are the real drivers of success. Contact us if you need help or support.
See below for some examples of the work we've been involved, whether as project leader, project sponsor or latterly as mentor to project teams.
Coaching / Mentoring
If you already have a project team or you've put people through our training courses, we can help support them whether that be through coaching or mentoring.
People development is our passion and sharing our knowledge and experience can help people take the step to the next level.
Continuous Improvement case studies
Contract Costing system
Working with IT and finance colleagues I led a team that developed and implemented a new contract costing and site management system. The system enabled enhanced management reporting for senior management, commercial, operations and finance teams.
The time saving for staff was quantified as being £40k per year.
Digital efficiency
Information from site was delayed in getting to the office as it was all paperwork. Collaborating with our resurfacing crews I lead a project to digitise all site forms and implement tablet devices, a first for the industry. The project eliminated paperwork, driving sustainability improvements and enhancing site safety. The project won the Mineral Products Association Workforce Engagement Award.
Margin enhancement
The plant account for our contracting business was continually in deficit, but by analysing data with operations teams we identified opportunities for improvement in buying or hiring plant, plant damage costs and utilisation. The improvement plan significantly enhanced performance and in the first year returned a £200k profit from the previous year’s deficits.
Process efficiency
The training team were burdened with a lot of administrative work. Working with the team we identify waste within the processes and the opportunity to automate a number of the processes.
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The process efficiencies created £33k in tine savings, which meant that there was no need to recruit another person.
Process improvement
Leading a team of accountants and quantity surveyors we reviewed and redesigned month end processes, eliminating waste from the process. The redesigned process reduced the month end cycle by three days without compromising work life balance or the integrity of the results and enhanced reporting. The time saving was quantified as being £100k.
ESG Accelerator
The ESG Accelerator was a cross functional, future leader programmes in how to embed ESG principles across the business. Mentoring the participants, the projects delivered saw improvements in safety, carbon reduction, operational efficiencies and the creation of a new revenue stream.
The total value creation for the five projects was £250k.
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