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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Cindi Wilson of Total Flow Limited highlights the benefits and challenges of implementing and sustaining Quality by Design (QbD). Her solution is a visual flow embedded into your Product Development Process (PDP).
Quality & QbD
Quality by Design (QbD) is an industry keyword these days – spoken equally with reverence and frustration by those trying to understand how to implement it. QbD is a system of tools that assures quality is built into the design throughout the process, rather than inspecting it in, testing it in, or bearing costly changes to get it right after the fact. Read More
Tags: QbD
Posted in Americas, Customer Satisfaction and Quality Transformation, Europe, Far East, Health, Strategic innovation, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Construction clients including repeat customers frequently see procurement of new facilities as a “distress purchase” [1], buying reluctantly as a last resort because of the difficulty in achieving the desired result with good value.
Clients wish that construction could be like other advanced industries: easy to buy from; full of ideas to meet their special needs; integrated to need no customer leadership. In more than three years spent in construction Total Flow have found no examples where this aspiration is met.
Tags: BAA Construction, Construction, Construction Client, Construction Value, Lean Construction, Total Flow Construction
Posted in Construction, Value Stream Thinking | No Comments »
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Hi all, I have been watching and reading a string on Linkedin Lean Construction Group with great interest.
One question that keeps nagging away at me is what is the objective in construction we are seeking to solve with lean or sigma approaches and frameworks?. Safety? Quality? On time delivery? Read More
Tags: Construction, Continuous Improvement, Lean Construction, Operational Excellence
Posted in Construction, Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, Total Flow | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The current economic crisis has brought things to a head in several industries, especially in developed economies.
Factors like market saturation, ageing and static populations, threat of low cost competition from emerging economies etc. are not completely new and their march has continued for the past several years. However, the crisis has brutally demolished any hopes of a gradual change and time to adjust to the new landscape.
Consumer and Govt spending is likely to remain under pressure for the foreseeable future and therefore demand for better value will be widespread and remain intense. Read More
Tags: Disruptive, Food & Drink, New business models, Sustainability
Posted in Consumer Products and Services, Remarkable Customer Propositions, Strategic innovation, World wide | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
I resisted the temptation to have a really good apoplectic rant at a conference last night. Two construction industry apologists were suggesting that the nation, and the construction industry in particular, couldn’t afford to address sustainability in the current economic climate.
What a load of tosh. Read More
Tags: Construction
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Let’s face it construction gets a pretty bad press from many quarters; so why are Total Flow putting such an emphasis on the sector? What do we know about the built environment?Well, what we do know is that in this £100bn+ turnover industry there are some mammoth opportunities to improve and create wealth for organisations which want to play.
- More than a third of all construction
projects are completed late
- Less than half come in on budget
- The industry as a whole makes on
average only 1% margin
On the positive side:
- Construction has an 11% forecasted annual growth rate
In the world of big numbers; it won’t take a revolution to generate significant wealth for our clients:
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