Ideas into Action

Leadership is about inspiring, challenging and supporting change; not about being in front. That is our philosophy and it underpins all our work. We are Ideas into Action, and we offer lean management implementation support, specialising in lean service in public and private sector organisations, including related training and development programmes.

Our Services

Our core services focus on seven areas:

  • Lean Service: applying the lean philosophy to the specific needs and issues of the service environment;
  • Lean Leadership: creating the management philosophy and the organisational culture necessary for sustainable lean success;
  • Lean NHS: understanding and improving processes in the NHS by focussing on the impediments to service flow;
  • Lean Local Authorities: identifying and defining Value Streams in local government and removing waste to improve efficiency;
  • Lean Accounting and Control: management reporting and decision support for Value Streams;
  • Lean Facilitation: providing the skills and training necessary for successful kaizen, 5S and other improvement activities, and creating a culture of "just do it" improvement;
  • Process Simulation and Improvement: applying specific software tools to simulate business processes to aid understanding, guide improvement, and test improvement scenarios.

We provide innovative and creative approaches to lean improvement and process modelling in the service environment. We will help you prepare a plan for successful lean implementation that will boost performance by greatly enhancing the skills and behaviours of your organisation’s leaders; and by uniting your staff behind the achievement of lean goals.

Our Experience

We have over 20 years experience in helping organisations realise the benefits of better planning, more effective communication and improved motivation through process improvement. What we do will depend on your organisation, its people and its circumstances. A friendly, no-obligation discussion would be an interesting starting point wouldn’t it?

Articles

Download published articles from the Ideas into Action Team:

Download PDF Article on Lean Accounting from "Financial Management" - March 2008 Download PDF "Go with the Flow" - Discussing the concept of Flow from "Operations Management" 2009
Download MS Word Lean Accounting in the Public Sector Download PDF Reflections on a Lean Accounting Project - from "Operations Management" 2008
Download PDF "Count on Lean" - article on accounting for lean from "Quality World" March 2007