Month: December 2025
The Team Leader Ratio – whoopsies, there goes Monozukuri!
An Overlooked Structural Lever in Continuous Improvement: The Team Leader Ratio I’m angry. After more decades than I care to remember supporting factories across automotive, food, pharma, mining, and heavy industry, I’ve come to believe one truth that is both obvious and routinely ignored: CI is structurally impossible without the right team leader–to–operator ratio.…
What is a ‘transformation’ really?
What do we really mean when we say ‘transformation’? Not long ago I was having lunch with a client, someone exceptionally astute, someone who has been around transformation work for most of his career. He is not easily impressed and he understands the difference between genuine organisational change and the countless ‘initiatives’ that get…