Manufacturing
$24m
capital investment avoided
Lean leadership across 14 plants
A common operating system across 14 plants helped a global automotive manufacturer improve overall equipment effectiveness by 31%.
Read the case studyOperational excellence & performance improvement
Operational transformation.
Lasting performance.
We help operational leaders improve delivery, capacity and reliability through practical operating systems, implementation and the capability to sustain change.
Results from real operational challenges
Explore published case studies across manufacturing, rail and infrastructure.
Rail & MRO
£10.4m
realised return from the improvement programme
Network Rail: capability that delivers
Four-step knowledge transfer combined Lean Academies with hands-on coaching: 260 managers completed the Academy and over 210 Lean workstreams were established.
Read the case studyInfrastructure
£5bn
approximate value of 20 delivery elements supported
Crossrail: programme control at scale
Visual performance management connected nine stations and 11 shafts and portals, aligning teams, decisions and critical milestones.
Read the case studyHow we help
Where does performance need to change?
When delivery varies, improvement stalls or teams work to different priorities, we help you understand what is holding performance back and put practical improvements into daily work.
Improve operational delivery
Address the flow, reliability and daily management issues affecting performance. Explore targeted improvementConnect strategy with daily work
Bring priorities, measures, leadership routines and improvement together across teams and sites. Explore operating systemsStrengthen leadership and ownership
Develop leaders and teams who can solve problems, improve together and sustain new ways of working. Explore team performance
People, process and performance, connected. A business operating system is how work gets done: the priorities, measures, meetings and responsibilities that connect strategy with daily delivery. We combine its design with implementation and coaching.
Our approach
From understanding the problem to sustaining the change
Understand
Establish the operational challenge, baseline and priorities with your team.Design
Agree the operating routines, responsibilities and measures needed to improve performance.Implement
Work alongside leaders and teams to test and embed changes in daily operations.Sustain
Develop capability and review performance so ownership remains with your people.Sectors we serve
Experience that fits your operation
Practical improvement in demanding operational environments.
Manufacturing & operations
Improve flow, capacity, delivery and the consistency of performance across your operation. Manufacturing expertise
Rail & MRO
Strengthen maintenance delivery, asset availability, operational control and team performance. Rail and MRO expertise
Infrastructure
Connect teams and leadership around reliable delivery in complex programmes. Infrastructure expertiseOur people
Work with people who understand operations
Meet the practitioners behind our approach, with experience of Lean transformation, leadership development and practical operational improvement.
James PurseDirector, Project7
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