Our blogs
Hoshin Kanri – a sustainable system of Strategy Implementation?, Graeme Gilkes, 12 April 2024
People First - Creating a Better User Experience from Start to Finish, Susan Ali, Jacquelyn O'Brien, & Susan Greer, 20 March 2024
Automation of Training Evaluations, Susan Ali and Susan Greer, 20 February 2024
Customer Journey Mapping & Research, Susan Ali, 24 January 2024
Creating capacity for growth, Graham Ross, 22 December 2023
Wellbeing, Susan Greer, 15 November 2023
Go and See: How to Get to the Root of Problems and help improve processes in your organisation , Graham Ross, 30 October 2023
Dare to Innovate, Dare to Fail, Jacquelyn O'Brien, 29 September 2023
The Secret to Effective Standard Work: Agree the best known way., Graham Ross, 29 August 2023
Problem Solving: A Structured Approach, Graham Ross, 28 July 2023
When things don't work, Susan Ali, 14 June 2023
Partnership and Collaboration in Action, Graham Ross and Stephanie Gerken, 22 May 2023
People who need people – once more with feeling!, Susan Greer, 03 April 2023
Hybrid Daily Stand Ups, Susan Ali, 08 March 2023
On Your Marks, Get Set, Improve, Jacquelyn O'Brien, 22 February 2023
Overcoming Roadblocks to Achieving Your Goals, Graham Ross, 27 January 2023
A Simple Way to Map a Process, Graham Ross, 17 December 2022
A Time for Reflection – and then action, John Hogg, 29 November 2022
Are we adding Value?, Graham Ross, 28 October 2022
Time Management, Graeme Gilkes, 29 September 2022
The Pomodoro Technique, Graham Ross, 30 August 2022
Continuous service development – a library case study, Emma Graham and Susan Ali, 22 July 2022
Not all problems are equal, Graham Ross, 28 June 2022
The Core Ingredients for Transformational Change: Culture, Empowerment and Leadership, John Hogg, 24 May 2022
What makes a good Continuous Improvement Project Proposal?, Graham Ross, 22 April 2022
Know Your Audience - That’s My Audience, Graeme Gilkes, 18 March 2022
What is a SIPOC?, Graham Ross, 25 February 2022
The Power of Storytelling, John Hogg, 31 January 2022
Planning for Improvements, Susan Ali, 8 December 2021
My First Conference, Susan Greer, 17 November 2021
Planting Trees You'll Never See, John Hogg, 10 November 2021
How to carry out an After-Action Review (AAR), Graham Ross, 21 September 2021
A Conference of Learn-It-Alls, John Hogg, 17 August 2021
Building momentum, learning from others and continually improving, John Hogg, 09 July 2021
Discover Key Issue Identification, Graham Ross, 28 June 2021
Four weeks to go!, John Hogg, 04 June 2021
The Lean in Higher Education International Conference 2021, John Hogg, 11 May 2021
One year at home, Graeme Gilkes & Susan Greer, 15 April 2021
Successfully implementing a new platform during lockdown, Nicola Hyne, 04 March 2021
Three Cheers for the Continuous Improvement Directorate, Jackie Ryan & Emma Graham, 03 February 2021
Supportive Strathclyde, Susan Ali, 14 January 2021
Award winning Team? Can you still improve?, Graeme Gilkes & Gordon Hodge, 12 December 2020
Collaborate, Innovate, Celebrate: Next Stop Glasgow!, John Hogg, 26 November 2020
Reflections on working from home, Susan Greer, 28 October 2020
Creating a Robust Approach to Gathering Feedback, Graeme Gilkes, 22 September 2020
Feedback, Graeme Gilkes, 28 August 2020
New beginnings (in lockdown!), Lillie McEnteer, 28 July 2020
Staying Connected through remote Daily Stand Ups, Graeme Gilkes & Susan Greer, 22 May 2020
The Importance of Wellbeing, John Hogg, 17 April 2020
People who need people, Susan Greer, 08 April 2020
Don't sit near the fridge, Graeme Gilkes, 02 April 2020
Working from home, Susan Ali, 26 March 2020
The show must go on, Graham Ross, 19 March 2020
Seven Benefits of a Daily Stand Up, Graham Ross, 28 February 2020
Fishing and Facilitating, Susan Greer, 14 February 2020
A Few Key Elements to Facilitate the Successful Implementation of Daily Stand Up Meetings, John Hogg, 30 January 2020
5S Revisited, Susan Ali & Susan Greer, 13 December 2019
Lean HE Conference 2019 – my conference diary, John Hogg, 19 November 2019
Supporting completion of Lean Projects, Graeme Gilkes, 10 October 2019
How to run a lean project in nine easy stages - part 2, Graham Ross, 06 September 2019
How to run a lean project in nine easy stages - part 1, Graham Ross, 21 August 2019
Lean Leadership in Sport: inspiring improvements within a team, Graeme Gilkes, 26 July 2019
What does productivity mean to you?, Continuous Improvement, 18 June 2019
Prioritisation, Clarity and Impact, John Hogg, 31 May 2019
Implementing Change: a few reflections, John Hogg, 12 April 2019
The Power of a Conference: collaboration & networking – 4 months on, John Hogg, 21 March 2019
Workplace Organisation - Sustain if you want to maintain that gain, Graham Ross, 13 February 2019
Workplace Organisation - Standardise to save those eyes, Graham Ross, 06 February 2019
Workplace Organisation - Shine makes things Fine, Graham Ross, 16 January 2019
Workplace Organisation - Set in Order if You Are a Hoarder, Graham Ross, 04 January 2019
Workplace Organisation - Sort it Out, Graham Ross, 15 December 2018
Workplace Organisation - Introduction to the 5S fun., Graham Ross, 05 December 2018
The Power of a Conference: collaboration & networking, John Hogg, 07 November 2018
Systematic Thinking – The Unglamorous Stage Critical to Sustaining Successful Change, Graeme Gilkes, 27 September 2018
Benefits and Baseline Data, Susan Ali, 07 June 2018
Katacon 2018 – A Reflection Part 2 – The Kata Dojo, Kata Improvement and Kata Coaching, Graham Ross, 04 May 2018
Katacon 2018 – A Reflection Part 1– The Basic Kata Idea, Graham Ross, 26 April 2018
Continuous Improvement at Strathclyde - A Fresh Pair of Eyes, Hayley MacDonald, 12 April 2018
The Benefits of Rapid Problem Solving, Graeme Gilkes, 09 March 2018
Measuring Benefits: Retrospective Challenges, Susan Ali, 09 February 2018
Measuring Benefits Retrospectively, Susan Ali, 13 December 2017
The positive impact of Daily Stand Ups, Susan Greer, 10 November 2017
Do you have what it takes to become a Lean Leader?, John Hogg, 11 October 2017
Say it, Do it, and Improve it! - Impressive Learning Impact, Svein Are Tjeldnes & Julia Sempler, 29 September 2017
Daily Stand Ups - Making Changes, Susan Greer, 15 September 2017
The Evolution of Daily Stand Ups - My Experience, Susan Greer, 15 August 2017
Cultural Change can be triggered when faced with the facts, Continuous Improvement, 26 July 2017
Is that really a benefit of change?, Continuous Improvement, 29 June 2017
What is a Quaich and could it help you improve processes?, Svein Are Tjeldnes, 10 May 2017
How to get organised in your office, Graham Ross, 23 November 2016
Demonstrating the need for change and gaining stakeholder support, Continuous Improvement, 17 August 2016
Lean Management Journal Operational Excellence Conference 2016, John Hogg, 19 May 2016
How you can engage people to evidence their project benefits, Continuous Improvement, 25 April 2016
Are we all MAD?, John Hogg, 16 April 2016
Lean for Leaders Programme, John Hogg, 9 March 2016
WPM Education Annual User Conference, John Hogg, 15 February 2016
Cross-cutting themes of the ITF projects, Continuous Improvement, 27 January 2016
The Five Day Rapid Improvement Event, Graham Ross, 18 December 2015
Evidencing the benefits of a project from the start, Continuous Improvement, 11 December 2015