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Standard work 4.0 - how you can evolve towards a Factory of the Future

Procedures and instructions: the industry and services sector use them on a daily basis.

How do you deal with complexity in customer demand?

Nowadays, the product portfolios of our customers seem to be bursting out of their joints, which means that production processes are increasingly under pressure.

Design thinking, creative thinking and action

“Design Thinking”; a term that is finding more and more resonance in the industry.

Help ... my department has become too complex

Complexity. A necessary evil for some, a reason for existence for others.

Insights Discovery® to boost your personal effectiveness

Are you also a professional who wants to build and maintain good and qualitative relationships with his/her stakeholders? And do you also sometimes feel that this ‘connection’ is difficult and awkward and that you don't really seem to be on the same wavelength despite your openness and willingness to listen. Insights Discovery® helps you to understand what the underlying motives of ‘connecting’ are and why this process is not as easy and smooth with everyone. Based on a simple, accessible and most of all recognisable 4-colour concept this model helps people to really understand themselves and others and appreciate existing differences. A first crucial step in boosting your personal effectiveness.

Shorten your delivery period, with reduced cost & improved quality

The aforementioned quote probably sounds like an exaggerated sales chat: too good to be true.

Lean Warehouse: converting facts into driving forces

Fact 1 ‘Lean Manufacturing’ is now a concept in many production companies.

Coaching ... what's in a name?

Everyone coaches everyone at everything! Nevertheless, coaching originally defined a clearly marked field.

Learn from what irritates you

Core qualities, according to Daniël Ofman, are features which belong to the core of a person, the strengths which characterise someone. Core qualities make you what you are.

Leadership will be shared ... or there won't be any leadership

An innovative labour organisation (ILO) strives for excellence by deploying committed workers in self-managing teams.

Discipline in the workplace - a skill?

Talking about discipline or addressing people about discipline sometimes appears to be taboo, even in professional organisations.

SMED – Hot or Not?

SMED is one of the classic tools of the Lean Manufacturing arsenal, but does it still have a place in today’s market? Actually, that’s a rhetorical question.