Author Archives: Rachael Lear

My kids are so cute…they have been doodling on my iPad again 🙂 The second doodle is mine.  I got to it after thinking  about how inventory would be easy to visualise as a time series to see variation over … Continue reading →

a colleague once gave me a story of change.  He needed a site to fundamentally change from a site unconcerned by scrap and service to one that could predict output with great certainty and with minimum waste. He recounted that … Continue reading →

Coming from an FMCG supply chain upbringing the bureaucracy and waste is absurd in the the part of healthcare I am currently in. Its surreal.  Going through the motions again and again.  Re-visiting the new issues stemming from the same source. … Continue reading →

Isn’t it obvious? You can’t do new stuff if you have a veritable plate of spaghetti procedures lined with trip wire and grenades. You just don’t know what button you might accidentally push or wallpaper over that could cause a … Continue reading →

we have a big visitor coming to site in three weeks.  Need to show him the journey that we have been on and where we are going to go from here on in.   But more importantly I want to … Continue reading →

A vision – hope. It’ll take time. A fair wind. Belief. There will be some backward steps. And figuring out a way forward. There are good folk. Take care. It’s okay to rant – and release!

What are we doing here. What are we going to change by having this meeting. How quickly will we change it. What did we need in order to have this meeting. Meetings. Urgh.

I wrote a note to myself Visibility of flow = on boarding support quicker and easier and less chance of rework. Job done. :). Albeit with probably a slight pause 🙂  I got visual analytics started instead of grinding through … Continue reading →

It runs the same. With black dots. Over and over again. At component. Whatever creates the closest block. Maybe you’ll see a unique amount in progress.   

Starting to see the real me. Cool. Next find out how to communicate the brief. Maybe questions would be good. Imagine it was your group. Where would you take them? Variance is a problem. Quite a serious one.  But no … Continue reading →