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Improve the efficiency of your business by managing out the waste holding it back

Waste means your business is not as successful as it could be, it’s time to do something about this

Stop thinking your business cannot be made more efficient and start managing out the waste

Don’t let your business fail because you did not take ‘lean’ thinking seriously

What happens when you take a serious look at the waste holding your business back?

Protect the future of your business by using lean thinking

Stop being busy, being busy and look at processes in your business

7 types of waste – go through your business processes for some quick ‘waste’ wins

Reduce the waste in your business for some short-term, low-cost wins

Can you afford to not take the 7 types of waste seriously when it comes to cost reduction in your business

Get your team involved with reducing the waste in the processes of your business

Secure the future of your business by managing the waste out

Help your business survive and thrive by managing the 7 types of waste out

If your business matters to you, then take the time to learn how to be ‘Lean’ from the world’s best…

Toyota’s approach to managing waste can help your business become more successful…

What happens when you adopt the Toyota approach to ‘Lean Management’ in your business?

Start reducing the sources of waste in your business – learn ‘lean’ from Toyota…

The key to the future of your business is reducing the waste within it

Discover the difference that an extra set of keys made to one school when it comes to managing waste

Stop thinking you have all the answers when it comes to managing the waste in your business – your team are the key

Asking your team the right questions about managing the waste in your business, could unlock future profits and success

Make managing waste in your business the key to its future by involving your team

Make your business a success by eliminating waste with lean thinking

7 wastes are holding your business back, eliminate them and your business will be more successful

Your business wins when you adopt lean thinking and reduce waste

7 wastes which burn the time, money and resources in your business – which one can you eliminate first?

What happens when you adopt lean thinking in your business to actively eliminate the 7 types of waste?

Use the right tools to tackle the waste in your business

Apply lean thinking to your business and focus on eliminating the waste holding your business back

Use the right waste reduction strategies in your business for quick gains

Simple gains come from using the right waste reduction strategies in your business

Apply lean thinking for business success

When you manage the waste in your business, you manage an efficient business

What happens when you actively look for short term gains to managing waste in your business

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1. How efficient do you think your business is? If I asked you which parts of your business are costing you time and money, how many would you list? Do you have excess stock, people waiting to perform tasks, people performing unnecessary tasks or correcting errors, or people moving around unnecessarily? Any extra steps in your processes are a waste of time, effort and money. Click here to discover how to change this and improve the efficiency of your business by managing out the waste holding it back.

2. You might not the direct cost of the wasted time and effort in your business, but it is there. When you reduce this waste, your business will become leaner, more effective, more profitable and more successful. Click here to ensure you and your team don’t overlook this opportunity to build a better business.

3. Right now, you’re probably looking at all the ways you can save money and make quick cost reductions in your business. Click here to learn that now is the perfect time to start thinking lean, take a good look at your business operations and click here to learn how to help your business survive and thrive by managing the 7 types of waste out

4. When you introduce your team to a lean way of thinking, you will begin to eliminate the most obvious sources of waste from your business, resulting in positive changes to your efficiency and costs. Click here to learn the 7 types of waste and get some ‘quick’ waste wins for your business.

5. I know your business matters to you, and I know you want to work more efficiently, after all who doesn’t? So, what have you got to lose from taking the time to learn how to reduce the waste in your business from the world’s best… Click here to learn more.

6. Your business can learn a lot from Toyota. Looking at Toyota’s model in regard to managing waste and continually improving their business, there is no doubt that your business could be stronger, more profitable and more successful by adopting some of their methods. Click here to learn how to make ‘lean management’ work in your business?

7. The efficiency of your team and your business is at the heart of your future growth and success. If you and your team are inefficient and unorganised, wasting time, effort and money, then it is likely that your business is inefficient too. Click here to take ‘lean’ thinking seriously. Manage the waste out of your business and you will become lean and make more money.

8. As a business owner I know you are busy being busy, managing the day to day running of your team and business. But you want to be the best, better than the competition, to improve your profits and grow your business – right? Click here to learn that lean thinking is the key to the future of your business.

9. Eliminating waste is one of the most important prerequisites for making your business successful. Waste less and you do less, use less, wait less, move things around less and stockpile less. Click here to learn how to make your business a success by eliminating waste with lean thinking.

10. The idea of eliminating waste originates from the Toyota Production System. They started this with Lean Manufacturing, a key element of which is waste reduction. ‘Lean’ waste reduction is an effective way to work smarter and to build a better, more profitable business. Click here to learn what happens when you adopt lean thinking in your business to actively eliminate the 7 types of waste?

11. Eliminating waste from your business with lean thinking can seem like an overwhelming task, but this does not have to be the case. Lean thinking and managing waste are ultimately focused on value. Every process in your business either delivers value for your customers or it doesn’t. Click here to use the right strategies to manage the waste out of your business and deliver value to your customers.

12. Reduce the waste in a process and you either reduce costs or impress customers, or both. With the right approach, you’ll quickly prove to yourself that managing waste pays off. Click here to use the right tools to tackle the waste in your business

13. Every business owner has many things to do each day, each week and each month. Managing waste is sometimes not done as it is not seen as a priority, but it is important to remember that it is. Click here to discover it does not take as long as you think…

14. Hunting out ways of reducing waste can make a real difference to your business. It can make a difference to the efficiency of your team and their workflow, as well as to your customers, your profits and your overall security and success. Click here to discover that when you manage the waste in your business, you manage an efficient business.

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Blog 1 – Make your business more profitable by reducing waste

How efficient do you think your business is? If I asked you which parts of your business are costing you time and money, how many would you list? Do you have excess stock, people waiting to perform tasks, people performing unnecessary tasks or correcting errors, or people moving around unnecessarily?

Any extra steps in your process, any time spent repeating jobs or doing jobs inefficiently or ineffectively, act as a resource and financial drain on your business.

You might not realise it’s happening or see the direct cost of the wasted time and effort, but when you reduce this waste, your business will become leaner, more effective, more profitable and more successful.

Don’t overlook this opportunity to build a better business.

Make the right changes in your business by adopting ‘lean’ thinking to enable you and your team to work ‘smarter’ not ‘harder’.

But how exactly can you work smarter? And who can you turn to for ideas and inspiration on working smarter?

The world’s most successful car manufacturer should be your inspiration.

Toyota, the world’s number one expert in working smarter, can help your business.

Toyota implemented ‘lean manufacturing’ within their business to eliminate all waste and build a better, more profitable business.

Click here to discover how Toyota did this and discover 7 ways to work smarter and 7 things you can use to make your business leaner and meaner.

Blog 2 - Protect the future of your business by using ‘lean’ thinking

Right now, you’re probably looking at all the ways you can save money and make quick cost reductions in your business.

And now is the perfect time to start thinking lean – to take a good look at your business operations and apply some lean management to get some quick wins.

When you introduce your team to a lean way of thinking, you will begin to eliminate the most obvious sources of waste from your business, resulting in positive changes to your efficiency and costs.

Removing waste from their manufacturing processes gave Toyota a competitive edge and helped them to become one of the most successful car manufacturers in the world. In fact, their ‘lean manufacturing’ model was eventually adopted by most other car producers globally.

Toyota and other lean-thinking businesses have identified that there are SEVEN types of waste in any business. And who better than your own team members working at the ‘coal-face’ to understand the way the different processes within your business work.

Take time out with your team to focus on reducing the waste in your business and you might get responses that you never expected.

You may find that reducing waste in your business processes is a subject that really engages your team, and they’ll certainly all have their own ideas on how things could be done better!

So why not harness that engagement and ask for their valuable input.

By making your team central to this lean thinking, you’ll bring them closer to the decisions you make to reduce waste and costs and they will be integral in helping increase efficiencies and thus job security.

Lean thinking has secured the future of many businesses; secure the future of yours as well and better manage the 7 types of waste in your business.

Click here to discover the 7 types of waste and have a brighter future when you take a closer look at how to implement lean thinking in your business.

Blog 3 - What can your business learn from the Toyota production system?

Your business can learn a lot from Toyota.

Looking at Toyota’s model in regard to managing waste and continually improving their business, there is no doubt that your business could be stronger, more profitable and more successful by adopting some of their methods.

Don’t believe me?

Well, before you read on, ask yourself this:

“Are the processes and systems in my business more or less complex than building a car?”

I would posit that building a car is probably more complex, has more processes, more parts, more variables than your business. Or, at the very least, is no more complex.

So, if Toyota can work out how to make cars for less, with more flexibility than ever before, can’t you do the same in your business?

Toyota revolutionised the way cars were made in their factories. In fact, they made their factories easier and cheaper to build and run AND built more flexibility into the way they build cars. And they are still doing this now…

Toyota even developed a new production system which enables them to shift from manufacturing 100,000 cars to 50,000 cars in a matter of minutes!

Some jobs are done the same way on every car, and other jobs vary from region to region; for example, colour, textiles and technology tastes are different in Italy, Britain and Korea.

Toyota know this and have built production lines accordingly and, as a consequence, are bringing costs down, boosting flexibility, increasing customer satisfaction and driving up profits.

I am sure there are tasks performed in your business the same way, day in and day out, and some tasks and procedures in your business will require different processes to others.

Perhaps it’s worth considering this approach to your businesses production workflow processes to help speed things up, build in flexibility AND better meet customer requirements.

The complexity and difficulty of doing this with car manufacturing is profound. Having a fresh look at your businesses processes and workflow should be much simpler, don’t you think?

Click here to look at making efficiencies pay off for your business and make more profit from reducing wasted effort when you adopt the Toyota way of thinking.

Blog 4 – Managing the waste in your business is the KEY to your success…

The efficiency of your team and your business is at the heart of your future growth and success. If you and your team are inefficient and unorganised, wasting time, effort and money, then it is likely that your business is inefficient too.

As a business owner I know you are busy being busy, managing the day to day running of your team and business.

But you want to be the best, better than the competition, to improve your profits and grow your business – right?

It’s time to take ‘lean’ thinking seriously. Manage the waste out of your business and you will become lean and make more money.

Lean thinking is the key to the future of your business.

Even a local school can reduce waste and improve teaching, with a key…

A new head teacher at a local school introduced himself to the teaching staff and asked this one simple question:

“What one thing is making your job harder than it should be?”

Almost in unison, the teachers replied: “Classroom keys.”

Every teacher regularly experienced a locked classroom and had to wait an average of 10 minutes before each lesson for the caretaker to open the room. Ten minutes wasted time for every lesson – with 20 lessons a week.

All because the caretaker was the only one with a set of keys.

By issuing each teacher his or her own set of keys, the school clawed back 200 minutes of teaching time a week. Within a 13-week term that meant 43 hours more teaching time per class. With 30 pupils per class, that’s 1,300 hours of learning no longer wasted every single term.

Naturally the new head teacher was an instant hit with the staff, but all he did was reduce 1 of the 7 types of waste – lean thinking changed a little thing for this school, but it made a BIG difference.

Can you do the same in your business?

Better manage the 7 types of waste and you avoid missing out on the profits, cash and growth you could have…

Click here to discover the 7 types of waste and how to identify them and manage them out of your business with lean thinking.

Blog 5 – Manage out the 7 wastes holding your business back

Eliminating waste is one of the most important prerequisites for making your business successful.

The idea of eliminating waste originates from the Toyota Production System. They started this with Lean Manufacturing, a key element of which is waste reduction. ‘Lean’ waste reduction is an effective way to work smarter and to build a better, more profitable business.

Waste less and you do less, use less, wait less, move things around less and stockpile less.

When you reduce the waste in your business, making it leaner, you will drive up your profits.

Fail to eliminate waste and you fail to maximise the profits from your business.

You want a leaner and more profitable business, don’t you?

How do you do this? Manage the 7 wastes out of your business and you’ll become lean.

So, what are the 7 wastes and in which of these does your business burn the most money?

Unnecessary Waiting Waste: People stop working because they are waiting for something
Over-Production Waste: Doing more or making more than is ordered or needed
Transportation Waste: Moving around or moving products or equipment around unnecessarily
Processing Waste: Repeated action that adds no value to a product or service or to the end customer
Inventory Waste: Unnecessary levels of stock or work in progress, that takes up storage space
Motion Waste: Unnecessary movement of workers or steps in workflow that add no value
Defect Waste: Poor customer service, rejected parts, quality issues, poor recruitment, leading to repeated processes or items replaced

Waste when operating in a Lean environment is any activity that absorbs resources but which brings no value to the business or customer.

Click here to learn more about each of the 7 types of waste that may be holding back your business and the steps to take,

Blog 6 – Secure the future of your business when you use quick and profitable wins to manage waste

Eliminating waste from your business with lean thinking can seem like an overwhelming task, but this does not have to be the case.

Lean thinking and managing waste are ultimately focused on value.

Every process in your business either delivers value for your customers or it doesn’t.

Reduce the waste in a process and you either reduce costs or impress customers, or both.

With the right approach, you’ll quickly prove to yourself that managing waste pays off.

Waste reduction strategies come in 4 categories:

Short-term low-cost (STLC)

Long-term low-cost (LTLC)

Short-term high-cost (STHC)

Long-term high-cost (LTHC)

This forms part of the Time-Cost Grid

To start with, you are looking for STLC (short-term low-cost) ways in which to reduce waste in your business. STLC waste reduction means it will pay off for you and your team quickly.

There might only be a few small changes, but these could have a big impact on you, your team and your business. Just like the headteacher getting a set of keys cut for every teacher at a local school, a simple action allowed the school to regain 1,300 lost hours of teaching over a 13-week term.

Toyota is famous for involving its team in improving processes and reducing waste. Your team is at the heart of your business, so don’t you think this is something you should do too?

If you don’t, you will be ‘wasting’ the valuable insight of the people closest to the work and ideally placed to identify the waste within your business.

Click here to learn how to apply the STLC reduction to your waste with the help of your team, a flip chart and some post-it notes.

Blog 7 – 3 steps you can use in your business to begin eliminating waste today

Every business owner has many things to do each day, each week and each month. Managing waste is sometimes not done as it is not seen as a priority, but it is important to remember that it is.

Hunting out ways of reducing waste can make a real difference to your business. It can make a difference to the efficiency of your team and their workflow, as well as to your customers, your profits and your overall security and success.

And it does not take as long as you think…

Here is a three-step approach to flushing out the waste in your business. This approach will identify the everyday tasks that are harbouring waste and will engage your team in the on-going pursuit of a more profitable and effective business.

1) Prepare well:

Get your hands on a pile of yellow and blue post-it notes and plenty of pens
Take 8 sheets of flipchart paper and write 1 of each of the 7 wastes on each sheet, leaving the last sheet blank
Book 2 x 30-minute training sessions with your team (a week apart) in a space that has at least one blank wall – your ‘waste wall’

2) Training session 1:

Find the waste

STOP your people ‘doing’ for 30 minutes and ask them “What one thing is making your job harder than it should be?”.

LISTEN to their comments and ask them to write something down on a yellow post-it note and place it on the blank flipchart sheet.

Categorise each post-it note in turn

Which of the 7 wastes do their suggestions fall into (it could be more than one)?
Use the time-cost grid to identify STLC waste reduction actions for the suggestions
Choose one STLC waste reduction action for one of the suggestions and implement immediately – ACT FAST

Add to the post-it pile

Ask your people to add more ideas on the blue post-it notes to the blank flipchart sheet during the next week, whenever they think of something.

3) Training Session 2:

Do the maths for the STLC waste reduction you have already implemented
Categorise the wastes identified on the blue post-it notes
Choose the next waste issue to solve

This then needs to become a continuous process within your business – it absorbs only 30 minutes of team time per week, and surely eliminating waste, becoming more efficient and improving your profits is worth 30 minutes.

Click here to learn more the importance to your business of systematically driving waste out and profits up.

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