Explore every episode of the podcast Uncommon Sense - Tools to Improve your Work Forever
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| Applying Lean In Service | 21 Aug 2024 | 00:12:56 | |
“Does Lean apply to me? It’s fine for manufacturing, but I work in the service industry.”
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| Communicating Results with Impact | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:08:58 | |
The way you present your project achievements could be the difference between driving impactful change and losing your audience entirely. Delve into the critical art of effectively communicating results with PMI Director Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh. Drawing from his extensive experience and lessons learned, he offers practical advice on structuring presentations for maximum impact. Gain valuable insights on customising language to resonate with your audience and aligning your message with key organisational metrics. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD. More from PMI:
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| Adapting VoC to Establish Voice of the Business | 26 Jun 2024 | 00:11:53 | |
Have you ever questioned if your work is truly aligned with your customer's needs?
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| Psychology Essentials That Leaders Need to Know | 12 Jun 2024 | 00:14:55 | |
Unlock the power of intrinsic motivation to engage your team in change. Join PMI Director Consultant and experienced Executive Coach Warren Knight as he shares valuable insights into the psychology of change. You’ll discover practical tips for empowering your team to not only accept but wholeheartedly embrace change to achieve organisational goals.
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| Common Control Chart Fallacies | 29 May 2024 | 00:14:52 | |
Navigate the complexities of Control Charts with ease, as we clear up some common misconceptions. Drawing from years of experience reviewing, coaching, assessing, and approving projects, PMI Director Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh reveals the most frequent mistakes he encounters so that you can recognise and avoid them in your own work. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out with control charts, this essential listen will enable you to confidently apply this key improvement tool to enhance your business processes.
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| Evolving to Control Charts | 15 May 2024 | 00:15:27 | |
Is your data telling the right story? The shift from simple data tables to Control Charts is more than a mere change in data representation; it's a transformative step towards data-driven decision-making. This progression, PMI Director Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh explains, stems from a growing awareness of variation and its impact on our processes.
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| Control Charts: Walter Shewhart's Gift to Quality | 01 May 2024 | 00:15:15 | |
Beyond its value as a statistical tool, the Control Chart is a symbol of excellence in operational efficiency and quality management that has shaped the world of Continuous Improvement. As we celebrate 100 years of Control Charts, PMI Director Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh explores the history of Shewhart’s enduring legacy and gift to quality.
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| How Effective Leaders Support a Learning Organisation | 17 Apr 2024 | 00:13:01 | |
Effective leaders recognise that their organisation's ability to improve is fundamentally based upon its ability to learn. Here are some more resources on this topic:
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| Process Operators: Driving Continuous Improvement | 02 Apr 2024 | 00:12:20 | |
Process Operators are not just cogs in the machine. They’re the heartbeat of an organisation; executing core processes and directly influencing the value delivered to customers. Their work is vital, and as such, it demands a focus on standardisation, maintenance, and Continuous Improvement. Join PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson as he discusses the role of the Process Operator, including why it’s crucial that they’re engaged in standardisation and improvement activities, and the challenges of operators preferring to do things their own way.
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| Why Leaders Need to Understand Variation | 20 Mar 2024 | 00:12:21 | |
Variation represents chaos and unpredictability. So in our business systems, which require consistency and repeatability to enable improvement, the concept of variation and its impact on performance is crucial for our Leaders to grasp. Packed with eye-opening analogies, Director Consultant Warren Knight explains the complexities of variation, the significance of control charts and the long-term view, and why tampering with the system without understanding the root causes of variation is a no-go.
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| Mastering Process Management | 06 Mar 2024 | 00:10:15 | |
Managing processes is as vital as managing people for keeping the gears of performance well-oiled and aligned with organisational goals.
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| Systems Thinking From a Leadership Perspective | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:14:09 | |
Imagine your organisation as an orchestra, where each section must play in harmony to create a beautiful symphony. This is the crux of Systems Thinking in leadership. Packed with thought-provoking examples and practical tips, this unmissable episode with PMI Director Consultant Warren Knight highlights the transformative potential of a Systems Thinking approach from your leadership team.
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| Use X Matrix to Determine the Vital Priorities | 24 Jul 2024 | 00:14:48 | |
How do you deploy a strategy effectively and ensure it makes the impact that will elevate your organisation?
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| Navigating Process Management Roles | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:13:14 | |
Successful process management requires a shift in mindset where everyone is empowered to think of their organisation as a collection of interconnected processes rather than isolated departments or functions. By embracing this process thinking approach and clearly defining process management roles, you can achieve greater efficiency, better customer satisfaction, and ultimately, improved performance. Here are some related resources that you may be interested in:
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| The Power of Retrospectives | 24 Jan 2024 | 00:12:17 | |
We’re seeing a growing recognition of the power of reflection in today’s fast-paced world, where the delivery of improved performance through every project is more crucial than ever. Join PMI Director Consultant Sean Buckland for a timely reminder of the power of Retrospectives in helping Lean Six Sigma improvement teams overcome project challenges earlier and achieve better results.
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| Working Successfully With Your Sponsor | 10 Jan 2024 | 00:13:22 | |
Whatever kind of change project you're working on, a good relationship with your sponsor is essential, but it isn’t necessarily easy.
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| Managing Variation in Customer Demand With Heijunka | 27 Dec 2023 | 00:14:42 | |
Is your demand unpredictable and difficult to forecast? You can reduce this challenge and improve your business efficiency by implementing a level scheduling system. Mastered by automotive giant Toyota, Heijunka is a Japanese term for ‘level’ or ‘flat’. It’s about having complete visibility of the system and synchronizing the supply chain for a smooth flow of customer orders. Join PMI Director Consultant Barry Byrne as he delves into the art of Heijunka and confesses that monotony is liberating when it comes to scheduling!
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| What is Lean Six Sigma? | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:10:02 | |
Are you a Lean advocate, do you sit in the Six Sigma camp, or are you wondering what Lean Six Sigma is all about? Join us for a whistlestop tour back to the origins of Lean and Six Sigma, as PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson shares how these two complementary techniques have been brought together to create a powerful customer-centric approach which can deliver maximum impact through improving both efficiency and quality.
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| How SMED Can Improve Setup Times | 29 Nov 2023 | 00:12:39 | |
Are you in engineering or manufacturing? Do you want to minimise downtime between changeovers? Then this Lean tool is for you!
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| Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to Measure Performance | 15 Nov 2023 | 00:13:05 | |
Do you want to know how effectively your system delivers value to its customers? What are your measures for availability, productivity, and quality telling you?
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| Dr Deming - A Relevant Philosophy for Today? With Jan Gillett | 01 Nov 2023 | 00:13:40 | |
In this special episode of Uncommon Sense, we’re joined by former PMI Deputy Chairman Jan Gillett as we commemorate 30 years since the passing of the father of quality management, Dr. W. Edwards Deming. More resources that you may find interesting:
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| Process Redesign and the 5Rs | 18 Oct 2023 | 00:15:12 | |
The 5Rs will help you work more efficiently and effectively, offering a structured way to analyse and improve processes. So, as you carry out your work today, think about this one simple question: is this process step delivering value to our end customer? If the answer is no - however important or necessary it might be - it is still some form of waste which we should seek to eliminate or minimise, PMI Director Consultant Sean Buckland reminds us.
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| Kanban - Triggering Optimal Levels of Inventory | 04 Oct 2023 | 00:13:05 | |
Kanban is all around us, although sometimes we don’t notice it. Its purpose is to provide a signal, in a Pull system, underpinning a just-in-time approach to work and avoiding overproduction and waste. It helps to ensure you have only what you want, only when you need it. Join PMI Director Consultant Barry Byrne as he talks about Kanban as a crucial communication method, helping to synchronise our entire system, from supply chain to the customer.
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| A Model for Improvement at Any Level | 22 Jul 2024 | 00:10:57 | |
How will you know that your reinvigorated strategy is an improvement? Join PMI Partner Consultant Des Kelly in the next episode of our strategy-focused mini-series as he delves into the art of defining clear, actionable objectives. Discover how to harness the power of the 3 Question Model from Nolan and Provost to sharpen your strategy, as Des guides you through the essential questions: ‘What are we trying to accomplish?’, ‘How will we know that change is an improvement?’, and ‘What changes can we make that will result in improvement?’. Tune in to unlock the secrets to crafting a strategy that delivers real results.
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| System Transformation Using TPM | 20 Sep 2023 | 00:14:09 | |
Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of Total Productive Maintenance (not to be confused with Total Preventative Maintenance), and its game-changing impact on business operations. Whether you’re in the manufacturing or service industry, every cog in the machine plays a vital role in optimising value stream flow and achieving TPM excellence.
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| The Utilisation Measure – Aligning to Flow and Lean Principles | 06 Sep 2023 | 00:11:15 | |
A gauge of work completed compared to available capacity, the Utilisation Measure is a commonly used Key Performance Indicator. But in this thought-provoking Uncommon Sense episode, PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson sheds light on how this measure, while popular, can sometimes hinder the achievement of flow in Lean businesses.
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| Throughput Yield: Right First Time? | 23 Aug 2023 | 00:14:27 | |
It’s one of the top 3 calculations that supervisors and managers should have at their fingertips, according to PMI Director Consultant, Barry Byrne. Throughput yield - the percentage of work completed successfully at any given process step – is a crucial metric when striving for perfection. Here are some related resources to support your improvement work:
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| Developing Customer Insight Using Value Proposition Statements | 09 Aug 2023 | 00:14:45 | |
More than just a tagline or a sales pitch, the Value Proposition Statement is a tool for alignment and clarity, serving as a compass, guiding us towards delivering what our customer truly values. And if your process isn’t delivering value to the customer? It should be turned off or redesigned to meet the customer’s needs, PMI Director Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh tells us. Tune in for more top tips and practical examples as we discuss Value Proposition Statements and how they impact business success.
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| Understanding the Voice of the Customer | 26 Jul 2023 | 00:15:37 | |
Direct, indirect, internal, external, regulatory, people who think they’re customers because they have authority, and ironically, customers who don’t even know that they’re customers. Identifying the true customer(s) of a process from amongst an array of possibilities is key to the effective use of this tool for uncovering improvement opportunities.
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| Mood's Median Test and ANOVA | 12 Jul 2023 | 00:15:37 | |
How do you know that performance data is accurate? Are you sure there aren’t, in fact, a series of processes hiding behind your process, distorting your measurement results? PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD. More from PMI:
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| Why The 5 Whys Are The Mindset You Need | 28 Jun 2023 | 00:13:49 | |
5 Whys is a great problem-solving tool for improvement projects, and it can also be invaluable in your day-to-day work to understand root causes when things go wrong, as they do from time to time!
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| How to Get The Best Out of Your Sponsor | 14 Jun 2023 | 00:14:40 | |
Ensure a productive and successful partnership with your sponsor and achieve more with your next improvement project. PMI Director Consultant Warren Knight shares his 5 top tips on what you need from your sponsor, plus how to build a strong relationship with them so that together you can achieve your project goals.
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| Scatter Diagrams For Visualising Relationships | 31 May 2023 | 00:13:35 | |
Avoid wasting time on ineffective improvement strategies by using scatter diagrams to visually prove or disprove your theories. PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson delves into the fascinating world of this underappreciated improvement tool to reveal why it’s invaluable for investigating variations in output. But beware – he also warns not to extrapolate beyond the data and stresses the importance of having enough samples.
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| Encouraging Divergent Thinking with Cause and Effect | 17 May 2023 | 00:14:08 | |
Do you need to identify potential causes of an undesirable effect or problem? Then you're in luck because in this episode of PMI's Uncommon Sense podcast, PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson talks about the Cause and Effect Diagram. To really get to the bottom of a problem it’s crucial to avoid jumping straight to solution mode, Damion warns us. Instead, focus on divergent thinking to generate a broad range of potential causes, before using PDSA to validate the most likely. Listen now for some great tips on how to get the most from this powerful tool.
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| Organise and Sequence Improvement Ideas Using AD and ID | 20 Jul 2024 | 00:12:22 | |
Developing a successful strategy requires the transformation of abstract ideas into actionable plans, and this is where the Affinity Diagram and the Interrelationship Diagraph are invaluable. Join us for the sixth episode of our strategy-focused mini-series as we move on to top tools for establishing the end goals and objectives. PMI Partner Consultant Des Kelly reveals how AD and ID can foster consensus among senior leadership teams and pinpoint key drivers through converting qualitative insights into structured, strategic objectives.
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| Knowing Your Internal Customer | 03 May 2023 | 00:09:51 | |
All business improvement is geared around doing a better job for your end customer. But in reality, so much of what you work on isn’t directly affecting them, so it’s just as important to know your internal customer.
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| Key Steps to Successful Project Planning | 19 Apr 2023 | 00:14:16 | |
We have an innate ability to manage our personal lives successfully, but as observed by PMI Director Consultant Barry Byrne, we’re sometimes reluctant to apply the same planning approach to our process improvement projects.
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| The Who, the Why & the How of Engaging Stakeholders | 05 Apr 2023 | 00:14:12 | |
The majority of problems you face in your organisation are likely to be systemic, manifest across multiple parts of the business, and will have a number of root causes. Therefore, it's essential to build great stakeholder relationships in support of your Process Improvement work. In our latest episode of Uncommon Sense, PMI Director Consultant Barry Byrne provides great insight into thinking about a constituency of system-wide stakeholders who you need to work with, and how to engage them effectively so that you can drive change and achieve great results.
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| Don’t jump, test first! Piloting Solutions for Maximum Impact | 22 Mar 2023 | 00:12:49 | |
You’ve done a great job of diagnosing the problem; you’ve identified the waste, and you’re feeling really enthusiastic about the solution you've designed. So why not just go for it? In this episode of Uncommon Sense, Director Consultant, Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh, encourages you not to jump from solution to implementation, but to test first, even when you think you’ve got the right solution.
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| Visual Management: You Can't Manage What You Can't See | 08 Mar 2023 | 00:15:50 | |
When Visual Management is done well, it has a simple elegance about it that helps you to understand how to best manage your work. PMI Director Consultant, Sean Buckland, talks about taking the time to work out what really matters, and how you can use Visual Management to see performance at a glance, enabling you to focus on making the day-to-day work well.
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| Idea Generation For Better Solutions | 22 Feb 2023 | 00:14:10 | |
Join Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh, Director Consultant and enthusiastic innovator, as he talks about the joy and the fun of using Idea Generation to find solutions to challenges when the answer doesn’t present itself naturally.
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| Quick Wins For Early Success | 08 Feb 2023 | 00:14:47 | |
We all love Quick Wins. And in the world of Process Improvement, they help you maintain motivation to get the maximum benefit and return for the work you do. But how do we define a Quick Win, and how are they different from fixing the overall process? PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD. More from PMI:
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| Why Your Process Needs a SIPOC | 25 Jan 2023 | 00:12:59 | |
A SIPOC can reveal what you don’t know about your process, as well as gather together what you do. It’s very much about setting the context for the improvement work you’ll be undertaking, says PMI Director Consultant, Barry Byrne. So why is creating a SIPOC a step that’s so often skipped? PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD. More from PMI:
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| Going to Gemba | 11 Jan 2023 | 00:13:41 | |
See for yourself how a process is operated by going to Gemba – ‘the real place’ where the work happens. PMI Director Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh has certified scores of Lean Six Sigma projects and can easily recognise those which started with a Gemba Walk. To the improvement practitioner, it’s a positive enquiry to learn from the experts that run the process, but how do you handle the concerns of Process Operators who may fear repercussions or ulterior motives? Find the answer to this and many other tips and tricks for getting the most from your Gemba walk in this episode of Uncommon Sense.
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| Selecting a Problem | 28 Dec 2022 | 00:14:29 | |
The starting point for any project-based improvement effort, your Problem Statement should be a concise description of the issue to be solved. Sounds simple, right? But using this fundamental tool correctly is a common stumbling block amongst practitioners, PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson tells us. So set your project up for success from the very start; join us as Damion shares real examples of what a problem statement is and isn’t, and how to make sure you get it right.
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| Use Force-Field to Understand the Perspectives, Actions and Consequences of Change | 18 Jul 2024 | 00:08:49 | |
Are you aware of the invisible forces shaping the success or failure of your organisation's strategic goals?
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| Visualising with Value Stream Mapping | 14 Dec 2022 | 00:09:28 | |
Waste identification and elimination is a life’s work, but collate where your customer sees the value into a single visualisation of your end-to-end process, and you’ll have an extremely powerful tool to help you get started.
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| PDSA and Disconfirming Evidence | 30 Nov 2022 | 00:15:28 | |
PDSA – Plan, Do, Study, Act – the iterative four-stage thinking model for delivering change.
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| Taking Out Waste May Not Make You Lean | 16 Nov 2022 | 00:12:23 | |
The dogged pursuit of finding and eliminating the eight deadly wastes from your processes – it’s the classic Lean theory, with a proven track record for success. So the statement posed by PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson – “taking out waste may not make you Lean” is contentious at best. But consider this: where do your activities fit within the overall program of improvement, and how do you know that the changes you’ve worked hard to achieve haven’t caused a bottleneck in another part of the system? PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD. More from PMI:
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| The Humble Pareto | 16 Nov 2022 | 00:14:22 | |
Are you seeing so many opportunities for improvement that you just don’t know where to start? PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD. More from PMI:
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