http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/ en-gb Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:11:47 GMT http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/February-2010/Community-Netowrk-Meeting-4th-March-2010--The-Context-for-Change.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/February-2010/Community-Netowrk-Meeting-4th-March-2010--The-Context-for-Change.aspx Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:57:21 GMT Once again, BHW will be supporting the i&i Community Network Meeting, the Community of Practice for Business Improvement Specialists. The meeting will address how continuous improvement programmes should be positioned in the organizations’ structure in order to have most effect. The theme will be to define ‘The Context for Change’. As the introduction implies, a Continuous Improvement (CI)/Operational Excellence (OPEX) team cannot waste a second working on anything that is not fully aligned to the business strategy and operational targets, yet it is often felt that CI programmes and other initiatives for change are working in a vacuum. The part they do play in the achievement of overall business strategy is not always fully articulated and/or understood by either business leaders or the mass of the workforce. Programmes can and do deliver real benefits but are perhaps perceived as more of a ‘tactical’ and project based tool rather than being a required part of achieving the Business Process Model. If CI and OPEX functions are to endure they must deliver long term strategic benefit through facilitation of sustainable change and leadership behaviour. The ultimate goal must be ‘business as usual’, where change is the norm. http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/February-2010/BHW-will-be-supporting-this-years-IMechE-Essential-Management-Skills-conference.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/February-2010/BHW-will-be-supporting-this-years-IMechE-Essential-Management-Skills-conference.aspx Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:58:06 GMT BHW are pleased to announce they will again be supporting this year’s IMechE “Essential Management Skills for Engineers” conference. The conference provides young engineers with the opportunity to network with other like-minded individuals, whilst visiting local engineering companies, and attending skills development workshops. BHW will be running an interactive workshop introducing a powerful but not well known technique called Design of Experiments. Design of Experiments works by changing the setting of a number of variables under investigation in a structured and systematic way. The analysis then allows the experiment to identify which variables have most influence on the product or process performance, therefore allowing the optimum setting for those variables to be established. The conference takes place on the 21st -24th of April at Keele University. http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/February-2010/Look-out-for-BHW-in-the-February-Edition-of-the-National-Health-Executive.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/February-2010/Look-out-for-BHW-in-the-February-Edition-of-the-National-Health-Executive.aspx Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:37:36 GMT Burge Hughes Walsh has a feature article in the February edition of the National Health Executive. The article focuses on Burge Hughes Walsh’s unique Bronze Silver Gold (BSG) system for embedding continuous improvement. The Bronze Silver Gold system is a proven step-by-step approach to continuous improvement that takes a holistic view of an organization, helping everyone within it to create a culture that aims for best practice. Through on-the-job training and workshops, this approach makes extensive use of various improvement tools, including those of lean and problem-solving. The aim of the system is to embed continuous improvement in the workplace with observable outcomes of: • Changed behaviours – a demonstrated culture of continuous improvement • Mindset focused on customers and processes • Better operational practices – self motivated, lean and a benchmark exemplar • Improved performance, i.e. - flexible, self-managing workforce - increased capacity -reduced operating costs -better customer satisfaction http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/December-2009/TURNING-BRONZE-INTO-GOLD--EMBEDDING-CONTINUOUS-IMPROVEMENT.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/December-2009/TURNING-BRONZE-INTO-GOLD--EMBEDDING-CONTINUOUS-IMPROVEMENT.aspx Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:33:23 GMT “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit” – so said Aristotle. Various organisations, including manufacturing and public sector bodies such as councils, have discovered how the Burge Hughes Walsh ‘Bronze Silver Gold System’ (BSG) creates a culture of workplace continuous improvement, successfully transforming people and organisations, where the alchemists only dreamed of transmuting metal. http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/October-2009/STAFF--THE-IMPACT-THEY-HAVE-ON-BUSINESS-PERFORMANCE.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/October-2009/STAFF--THE-IMPACT-THEY-HAVE-ON-BUSINESS-PERFORMANCE.aspx Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:20:07 GMT If you are an SME and need some practical, professional advice about HR issues, you might like to read the article attached. http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/September-2009/BHW-EXHIBITS-AT-GOVERNMENT-LEAN-EVENT.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/September-2009/BHW-EXHIBITS-AT-GOVERNMENT-LEAN-EVENT.aspx Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:16:04 GMT At the end of September, Burge Hughes Walsh featured its continuous improvement packages at the Lean Government event in London. Lean Government introduced delegates on new 'Lean' approaches to delivering improved services and the change management skills needed for implementation. BHW's portfolio includes: - The Bronze-Silver-Gold approach to embedding continuous improvement - Running Rapid Improvement Events - How to develop lean agents FREE SEMINAR - if you would like to know more about the above, why not attend our free Lean Seminar on the 30th October? http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/September-2009/Return-on-Investment-for-Improvement-Activity.aspx http://www.BurgeHughesWalsh.co.uk/News/September-2009/Return-on-Investment-for-Improvement-Activity.aspx Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:36:35 GMT Stephen Walsh, Partner of Burge Hughes Walsh, once again chaired the i&i Community Meeting held on the 10th September. The objective of the meeting was to enable i&i members to share the ways of calculating the return on investment from business improvement with credibility and ensure its sustainability and support from leadership. The discussions shared how organizations quantify and translate business benefits, define business improvement and perpetuate its maturity throughout the organization. Through a combination of guest presentations and interactive sessions for extracting and sharing knowledge within the community, i&i members explored: - The true costs and optimum resources required for delivering payback to the organization. - The right metrics for the right purpose and the right audience. - How to measure revenue generation as well as cost savings as a result of business improvement projects. - The right model for aligning benefits capture with the organizations financial planning. i&i Community Network meetings are exclusive forums for high quality information exchange and collaboration and attendance is by invitation only. These meetings are organized and facilitated by a professional team of coordinators and designed for and by i&i members of the i&i Community of Practice. The themes are selected and prioritised by the i&i Steering Committee that consists of senior representatives from AstraZeneca, BP, British Gas, Credit Suisse, n-Power, Royal Bank of Scotland, SCA Hygiene, Sun Chemical and Vodaphone. For further information on i&i and this event, please contact Stephen Walsh, email swalsh@burgehugheswalsh.co.uk or visit the website on the link below.