This week’s episode lacked the usual sparkle. Possibly because of Shama’s early departure, or the particularly brutal boardroom finale. Poor Navid, you were too sweet for this process. The teams were required to develop and sell a new non-alcoholic drink with a digital smart label. The previously single sex groups were mixed, and first off,…
DetailsEpisode 2! This week we saw the first early morning wake up call of the series (4am!) and the teams compete to design an electric toothbrush for 6-8 year olds. They were also tasked with developing an educational tooth brushing app and pitching the product to two sets of potential customers. Team leaders were agreed.…
DetailsIt’s back, back, BACK! And we couldn’t be more excited. Sixteen bright young things are competing to become Lord Sugar’s next business partner in a brand new series of The Apprentice, and the first episode did not disappoint. A lot has happened since the last series that’s for sure. “The world of business is tougher…
DetailsOur first blog in a while, which features books, Christmas, Dave Grohl, Billy Connolly, champagne, cocktails, and the 4th edition of Lean Six Sigma for Dummies. As Christmas approaches, and the holiday shopping season continues, it’s likely that by now, someone will have asked you what you’d like for Christmas. And you have probably asked…
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Catalyst’s Mark Jones guests on the Business Fixer Podcast to give an introduction to Lean Six Sigma. This is really worth a listen if you want an understanding on how Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques can improve and drive your business.
DetailsWay back in in April 2019, in the days when expressions like social distancing and long Covid were not part of normal conversation, my colleague, James Dwan, wrote an inspirational article entitled “How to become a Transformation Maestro with Agile” In Catalyst, we had already started work to develop a ‘new’ course to sit alongside…
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Watching the Euros reminded me of a blog that Jo Dowdell wrote in 2018 about Gareth Southgate. As Lean Six Sigma devotees know, we talk a lot about cause and effect, Xs and Ys. The output of a process (Y measure) is caused by many different variables (the Xs). Thinking about Football…. clearly the output…
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In his 1984 book ‘Quality Without Tears’, Philip Crosby introduced the concept of a Quality Vaccine – a super serum that could be injected into an organisation to drive improvement and prevent hassle. With vaccines at the very forefront of our minds and a new year just around the corner, it’s apt to think about…
DetailsLean Six Sigma requires a broad skill set – along with technical skills, influencing, project management and managing change, practitioners are also required to be good story tellers. Storyboards are used in Lean Six Sigma to support communication and information sharing. They tell the story of an improvement project from the beginning to the end,…
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It’s thanks to the Education Act of 1880 that each new academic year starts in September. By this time of year the harvest had been collected so the children could be spared from their work on the land for a few hours a day to attend school. This has endured – even in 2020! – …
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