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Leading from the front

On a recent trip to Yeo Valley group’s Crewkerne dairy in England’s south west, LMJ’s managing editor, Callum Bentley was shown first hand, the benefits

By Callum Bentley

On a foggy morning in December I drove down the driveway past two sprawling fields of solar panels at the entrance to Yeo Valley’s Crewkerne Dairy in south west England, in the heart of the Somerset countryside.

Published: 21 February 2014 3:07pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

Small and mighty becomes mightier

Editorial board member Gwendolyn Galsworth comments on last month’s article: Do it in the bathroom, commending prolific inventor, lean innovator, author and founder and president

By Gwendolyn Galsworth

Paul Akers is nothing if not wildly enthusiastic about people, learning, and continuous improvement.

Published: 20 February 2014 4:50pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

A lean course in higher education

Stephen Yorkstone, a lean leader in higher education at Edinburgh Napier University, examines the developing role of lean as a cost cutting measure in UK

By Stephen Yorkstone

Motivations for lean in higher education are familiar.

Published: 20 February 2014 3:05pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

One on one with John Shook

LMJ Editorial Director, Jon Tudor, meets chairman and CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute, John Shook, for the second in our One on one series.

By Jon Tudor

Mark Donnelly, Global Head of Operational Excellence, Lonza Biologics: Of all the companies you have visited and researched, what’s the biggest contributing factor to lean implementation and sustainability?

Published: 20 February 2014 2:16pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

Cultural transformation: how visuality does it

February’s LMJ proves that the application of lean is a powerful tool in contributing to the turnaround of a company, however, there is a stark

By Gwendolyn D.

Published: 19 February 2014 11:01am

by Victoria Fitzgerald

Changing cultures; changing mindsets

LMJ caught up with Martin Clocherty, manufacturing systems director at Hayward Tyler, one of the oldest manufacturing companies in the UK at their Luton factory,

“Over the years we have had many attempts from different management teams coming in and trying to take the business forward and drive it into the future.

Published: 19 February 2014 9:50am

by Victoria Fitzgerald

Casting your own burning platform

Jeremy Butler, director of management consultancy firm One Wigwam, reflects on implementing lean to regenerate his family’s 50-year-old engineering business. Butler emphasises how the workforce

By Jeremy Butler

Back in the late 1990s I came back to my family’s engineering business in the Midlands, having spent time working in the US and London.

Published: 18 February 2014 4:32pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

Warehouses: investment worthy or waste?

For lean practitioners inventory and warehouses are considered waste. In the past there was a tendency to ignore warehouse operations completely when transforming a company

However, there are two reasons why we think it makes sense to spend time in warehouses:

Firstly, there are supply chain designs, where warehouses are without a practical alternative, until manufacturing makes another big step forward
Secondly, there will always will be products which require storage, for instance as part of a maturing process.

Published: 14 February 2014 4:44pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

Break the Cycle

Russell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and

The challenge, of course, is determining what is right to do, for such a label is far too easy to apply.

Published: 14 February 2014 2:42pm

by Victoria Fitzgerald

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