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Welcome to episode 113 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Michel Baudin on the show with us today. Michel has been researching, practising, writing and consulting in the fields of Operational Excellence since the 1980s. He has helped organisations all over the world. Michael is a lecturer for UC Berkley, the University of Dayton, the Hong Kong Productivity Council and the University of Buckingham. He has written four books, Manufacturing Systems Analysis, Lean Assembly, Lean Logistics and Working with Machines. His new book together with Torbjorn Netland is Introduction to Manufacturing- An Industrial Engineering and Management Perspective. 

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Brad: With "Introduction to Manufacturing", what would be your two-minute tip with that book and that area that you're writing about now?

Michel: It's a book that's intended for people who will be working in manufacturing as engineers or managers. And it's intended to help them for a long period of time. We try to stay away from what is currently fashionable and come up with something that is likely to be useful to them in the long run. A lot of people have expressed interest in this book who are not students. A lot of professors say I'd like to have a copy of this book.

That's wonderful. It's meant for students, but if it's useable by professionals or not students, that's wonderful too. Our target audience is students.

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Welcome to episode 112 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is a pleasure to have Dr John Kotter on the show today. John needs little introduction. We have all gained so much from his work in change management, business Agility and Leadership over his Career. John is a Harvard Business School Professor. He has written many best-selling books such as Leading Change, A Sense of Urgency, and My Iceberg is Melting. Today, we will be honing in on his work in the books XLR8 and, most recently, Change. These two books are so relevant to all we are facing. They provide insights into developing business Agility, Change for the better and making it stick. Let’s get into the episode, John. Thanks for joining us today.

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YouTube full episode: https://youtu.be/rPsoYfQ_WdU?si=Re49Hdcvr-xxLfQz

Two-Minute Tip: https://youtu.be/OmfYzsEHf6w

Enterprise Excellence Academy: https://www.enterpriseexcellenceacademy.com/podcast/episode/7cd24e2c/133-transform-into-an-agile-high-performing-enterprise-with-dr-john-kotter-agile

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Welcome to episode 111 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Victor Caune on the show with us today. Victor more than anyone has helped so many people and organisations in Australia connect, go, see and learn from each other. Victor is a connector, educator and motivator extraordinaire. He has developed two of Australia’s most successful Excellence networking organisations SIRF Round Tables and Best Practice Network. He is on the show with us today to share his approaches to connecting people and learning from each other to sustain and achieve Enterprise Excellence.

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Full episode: https://youtu.be/4BEJo2w_GVM

Two-Minute Tip - https://youtu.be/55hLjZ0h2J8

Brad: Victor, what would be your two-minute tip mate for people in your area of expertise? This whole piece of connecting people networking, helping people go see and learn from each other?

Victor: Be bold. Be prepared to have a go. Get outside of your comfort zone. Go to a conference, go to an event, introduce yourself to people, find out what's going on. So that's probably my tip.

Brad: Yeah, nice.

Victor: There's always someone out there doing interesting things, believe it or not. There's never a dull moment in your day if you go and talk to people, even on your holidays, or through work. It doesn't matter. 

There's always someone with a better approach or a better idea. But you've got to go and seek it. It just doesn't happen by itself. And nine times out of 10 people are really willing to talk and share about what they're doing. So that's what I find.  Even someone like yourself, I think you're doing a fantastic job with all of us.

 Brad: Thanks, Victor. Really appreciate it.         

Victor: That's a serious comment. 

Brad: Yeah, well, I've learned from the best mate. 

Victor: I'm halfway through Jeff Sutherland's book on Agile and Scrum and thoroughly enjoying it. I enjoyed your presentation with him. He's a real practitioner and he's got the runs on the board. So again, it's a learning opportunity of just finding out what else is happening in the world.

Brad: Yeah, I like Jeff too Victor, because he's... You know, the stuff that he's done is insane. But he does not tell people to just take what he does and apply it. He says create your own way, you know, learn from it, and create your own playbook. And I respect that.

Victor: Well, that's what it is. Create your own playbook.

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Welcome to episode 110 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Jim Benson on the Podcast with us today. Jim is an expert in effectiveness for individuals, teams and organisations. Jim is a Shingo Research prize winner for his book with co-author Toni Dimaria Personal Kanban. Today we are going to discuss his new book The Collaboration Equation. Let's get into the episode.

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When your team gets together and you say what is the right environment that we need in order to actually act as a team? The second thing that you need is to understand how your work actually flows. And to take a good critical look at your team and ask your team, are we a team? Or are we a silo? 90% of the agile teams that I see are silos.

Can you make not just a kanban but make a room full of visualisations virtual or otherwise called an Obeya that have all of the information that your team needs in order to get their work done? What experiments are in flight? What work is in flight? What stuff are you teaming on with other teams? What learning has just happened? What learning is coming up?

So there are Obeya tools that are quite nice. Now that can work online. And a lot of my clients currently, that at the beginning of COVID, we're all co-located now can never be co-located again, either, because their people just said, Oh, my God, like I'm out of the office, and then they moved to another place entirely.

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Lewis:

The main message that I give out, when I talk about constraint innovation in any area, including, obviously, the critical chain, and project management, but also in all the other areas that we get involved in. Including the whole routine activities, scheduling issues, the whole host of them. It all comes back to the same takeaway or message that I give over. 

And it comes out to one sentence. How can we basically do a lot more of the right stuff with what we've got? What does it mean, what we've got? 

What we've got is the people in the organisation. Our most valuable asset to nearly every organisation, and it's not just a cliche, are the people. And it's amazing how at times, we don't recognize that because when we talk about retrenching people, you know, and you look at the equipment, and you look at the people and say, God forbid, I'll never sell the equipment, even though the equipment's going to stay idle for the next year right? That I'll never get rid of. I paid all that bloody money for the whole thing, right? Ah, but people, we can get rid of real quickly. You know, when you get rid of the people, the amount of investment, you've just thrown away, and then eventually, when things are getting really good, you have to bring someone else in, because the person you get rid of is never going to come back and work for you. 

And so, so what I'm saying here is that the knowledge exists. When I go into even the most complicated project, like Olympic Dam. I mean I don't know, I don't know anything about underground mining, I don't know anything about open-cut mining, I don't know anything. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'd go into one of those mines, I've never come out of the thing, right? That's for sure. I'd get lost in there. And then that's, that's the end of me. 

I know nothing about it. And quite frankly, I do know a lot about management. But those people, they know two things. They'll understand the engineering technical side fantastically. But they've got really good intuition. They've got really good common sense. It's just a question of directing it and focusing it. It's as simple as that. And so, you know, once I'm able to those said, obviously, the tips that I gave when I talk about the KBIs and the senior management. But once you get that into that mindset of those people, they latch on to it. And they develop it.

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Welcome to episode 107 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Lewis Trigger back on the show with us today. Lewis was previously on in Episode 31 sharing knowledge on the topic of Constraint Innovation. Lewis Trigger is an expert in Enterprise Excellence, helping organisations all over the world in virtually every industry. Today we will be exploring another key area of Lewis’s expertise – Project Management and the Critical Chain.  

And that Olympic Dam is an amazing, it's an amazing, it's sort of project actually, it's what we call a mega project, which is made up of a whole bunch of different projects.

The credit really with the people, it's not with me, I help facilitate, I give them the tools, they come in or come up with a solution. But this case, I won't even give more credit because there are a number of change agents there who are already on the ball with where we're going.

And there has to be a clear distinction here between two worlds, or two environments that were involved in terms of management. One environment is an environment where we've got an ongoing, when I say, ongoing operations, where we've got orders coming in, we're supplying those orders. I mean, that's got challenges in itself. But it's basically an ongoing operations, which is cause obviously being tweaked the whole time, as you're going in there. But the world of projects is a very different environment, the world of projects, is a world where we're talking about when you've got something which is non-routine.

So how do people generally deal with uncertainty in projects, any, any experienced project manager will tell you, if he hasn't been trained in critical chain hasn't had the TOC training, they'll tell you Well, the way we deal with risk mitigation is we have to build safety buffers into the various tasks of the project. Now, that seems to make sense.

How is it and this done so much research on it, the best companies, less than 30% of these projects come in, on the trip precious triangle of scope, in terms of what the what you're meant to be delivering schedule,

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Check out Lewis Trigger's first podcast recording with us. 

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Welcome to Episode 106 of the enterprise excellence podcast. This is a second part episode on supply chain excellence with Mr. Rick Sather. Today we'll explore collaboration within your organisation, and together as an extended value stream to create stability and continuous improvement within your supply chain. 

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My first tip I would talk about is you have to think about what's my current condition? Where am I at? And what I mean by that is, am I servicing my customers well? What's my quality performance? What's my balance sheet look like? Do I understand my current condition, including how I might measure it? Where do I want to be for the business and assessing that gap? 

Then from there, you can ask yourself, Okay, now what can I do to close that gap? So, you know, I, at times get brought in by companies, they say, come help us assess the situation. And it really is kind of looking at where are we? What's reality today? And understand that gap from where I want to be. So it's just a strategy right approach to understanding those dynamics to where I want to be. Then the question is, alright, I understand my gap. What's my approach for closing that gap? Do I have the knowledge in, in my company or myself to close that gap? is it pretty straightforward? Do I need help? Do I need to bring someone in to do it, whether it's into the company or from outside? I think it depends on the dynamics of what that specific thing is. So if you're not meeting your customers needs, typically, that's a good starting spot, right? If you can't serve your customers, what do we need to do differently to serve our customers in closing those gaps? That would be my point of view. 

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Welcome to episode 105 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have MR Rick Sather on the Podcast with us today. Rick is the co-author of one of my favourite most valued organisational improvement books Lean RFS. Rick has previously been the VP of Customer Supply Chain and Kimberly Clark and is now helping many more organisations achieve excellence in operations and supply chain. Let’s get into the episode. Rick thank you so much for joining us today. 

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It was a really good plant. But they weren't good at running this product. So every time it changed over, it was long, the ramp-up after the changeover was slow. And then after you made this product, going back to the other products was very painful as well. So that was an example where you think about that warehouse. 

Where can you find ways to build some level of stability in your supply chain, or your operations or your business that can help minimize the impact of the broad supply chain issues. 

Supply chain disruption and chaos. It is such a common thing today. Creating a future that is calm, where processes flow and continuous improvement occurs every day through engaged motivated team members is an ongoing journey. employee morale, fortunately, is on the decline with turnover on the increase, turning this around is a big effort, but it can be done and often requires support. The Enterprise Excellence Community has been designed to provide people leading excellence journeys with organisational support each month from one of our global experts for an hour, and then also via peers within common industries, where we can collaborate in small teams and get help from each other for the second hour of the community meeting. The community is taking on new members. If you're interested, please reach out. You can go to the enterprise excellence academy.com/contact to apply. It's for people practising and involved in really playing a big part in these journeys. And it's all about helping each other create that better future.

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Welcome to Episode 104 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such an honour to have a person on the show with us today who played a part in altering my trajectory in life for the better. Around mid-2015 I saw the TED Talk, "How many rules at work keep you from getting things done", presented by Mr Yves Morieux. This talk both shocked and inspired me. Yves Morieux is the Managing Director of Boston Consulting. He is the author of the book S"ix Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated". Yves has also delivered another amazing TED talk titled, "As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify". Let’s get into the episode. Yves thank you so much for joining us today. 

As you know I am a fan of Yves's work and this conversation is amazing. As part of this episode, we are going to give away one of Yves's Books – Six Simple Rules – How to manage complexity without getting complicated. If you are interested in going in the draw to to enterpriseexcellencepodcast.com/contact to register. 

Brad is proud to support many Australian businesses. You can find him on LinkedIn here. If you'd like to speak to him about how he can help your business, call him on 0402 448 445 or email [email protected]. Our website is www.bradjeavons.com.

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