Lean Six Sigma and Lean Thinking help from Efficiency Works

The 5 Principles of Lean are even more important today!

How can we get more leverage from the Five Principles of Lean? Having been involved with helping people in organisations implement Lean over a period of 20 years, we have spent a lot of time talking about the 5 Principles of Lean popularised by Womack and Jones in their book “Lean Thinking”. So important within […]
You need to Pivot in this COVID world – how to get your mission statement right!

When our business is affected by external factors, we need to assess the impacts and determine a response. In Lean Six Sigma we often use PDCA or Hoshin Kanri to adjust, update or pivot our strategy. However, often like an episode in “The Office”, we get stuck on terms and phrases on what our pivot […]
COVID-19 Update – New products – Introduction to Agile

Agile – one of the fastest growing project methodologies of our time and like many methodologies, there is cross over with other methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma and PMBOK. But have you ever wondered what Agile is really about. What is all this chatter about ‘Scrums’? Isn’t it just for tech companies? Agile is […]
COVID-19 Update – New Products – Introduction to Project Management

With the introduction of our new Project Management suite of courses we now cover all the core skills required by individuals and organisations to achieve their operational excellence aspirations. In this course you will be taken through the knowledge areas of Project Management to deliver on the customer’s expectation. This is the ‘Project Management Body […]
COVID-19 Update – New Products – Advanced Project Management

Aligned to the Project Management Institute (PMI). A project – a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a new product, service or result – essentially a change. Created through popular demand we can now offer a fully online and self-paced Advanced Project Management course. This is the ‘Project Management Body of Knowledge’ or PMBOK. The course […]
Efficiency Works acquired by performance agency Synergy People

Efficiency Works is pleased to announce their recent acquisition by industry-leading workforce performance organisation, Synergy People. Synergy People is a professional services organisation focused on supporting its clients to optimise their workforce performance through specialist optimisation, recruitment, and flexible workforce services. The Efficiency Works brand and its operations will remain as a standalone business offering […]