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Personal Change & Strategy Deployment
It has been well documented that many business projects and strategies never reach their full potential for a ...
IPA Blog: The Pulse of Australian Industry
Calling Out Bias in Problem-Solving
What are Cognitive Biases? Cognitive biases (heuristics) make a lot of sense.
Simple Steps to Improve Your Working From Home Setup
With more aches and pains than I care to admit to at my age, I did what we all do when we need answers to ...
Juggling Work-Life Balance
With all the technology available to us at our fingertips, I like to think that anyone can achieve the ...
Your Why Can Change
I moved away from corporate in February 2012 to start a new career in helping Australian businesses
2021 NSW Maintenance & Reliability Leadership Retreat Overview
Industry Partners Australia is a community of industry professionals who learn from each other and our expert ...
Driven to distraction!
One of the biggest issues we have in our working lives is that we just don’t seem to have enough time ...
The Power of the Asset Lifecycle Curve!
For those of us who inhabit the world of reliability, the “P-F” curve is a familiar concept and identifies ...
Rebranding - Our Story
Just over 12 months ago, we decided to break away from our old brand 'SIRF Roundtables'.
What is the problem...with your Continuous Improvement?
It is easy to get excited about how continuous improvement tools (Lean Six Sigma)
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Top 20 skills employers need – Not another list!
This morning I set out to research the Top 10 skills employers needed in 2020.
A Glitch in the Matrix
Over the past ten years I have had the good fortune to visit over 150 different workplaces.
Process Improvement - Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets
Put simply, Process improvement (PI) involves the business practice of identifying, analysing, and improving ...
Extending the Life of Aging Assets
The right maintenance strategy is performing the right task at the right time.
7 Ways to Improve The Impact of Your Lean Initiative (Part 7)
PART 7: Leverage the mutual interdependence of Systems Thinking and Lean (Michael Ballé 2009)
7 Ways to Improve The Impact of Your Lean Initiative (Part 6)
PART 6: Focus on “rapid learning cycles” * using A3 Thinking (and PDCA)
7 Ways to Improve The Impact of Your Lean Initiative (Part 5)
PART 5: Value Stream Mapping to work on real bottlenecks and constraints.
7 Ways to Improve The Impact of Your Lean Initiative | Leader Standard Work
PART 4: Leader Standard Work
7 Ways to Improve The Impact of Your Lean Initiative (Part 3)
PART 3: Understand the important role of leadership