John Grieves has seen what world class factories and world class organisations look, feel (and smell) like, having worked all over the world with multi-national companies, SME’s, and Gold Standard manufacturing consultants (mainly Japanese).

John says: “The best companies in the world all started from organised chaos – it just took them a little while to look in the mirror and act upon the reflection. It takes hard work and effort over a period of time to achieve a unique blend of efficient machines, effective, well trained workers, slick processes and great quality materials all blended together at all times to produce superb goods that delight the customer and consumer.”

To be a player on the global stage of manufacturing is about being as competitive as you can be whether a  multi-national company or a three person outfit making iron gates. It’s about offering reliable, value adding products locally, perhaps nationally and possibly internationally, manufactured in an efficient and reliable manner by a flexible workforce led by inspirational leaders.

John urges that the hard work should  start immediately: “We need a clear vision of where we want our organisations to be in one, three and ten years time. We need to be measuring and collecting data about our processes, our performance and our customer  satisfaction. We need to assess our own performance in: Productivity; Quality; Cost base; Delivery efficiency; Safety and Environmental impact; and Innovation potential. We even need to measure the morale and culture of our workforce! We need to do it and we need to do it now! JDI!”

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