Operational Excellence <span>Management Consultancy</span>

Operational Excellence Management Consultancy

Supporting Clients across Europe

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Capability Building

Lean management, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance, High Performing Teams, Business Process Improvement, Industry 4.0

Solutions

Versatile & Multi Lingual <span>European Team</span>

Versatile & Multi Lingual European Team

Consultants, Trainers, Coaches, Project Managers

Our Sectors

Industry

Food & Beverage, Bio & Specialty Chemicals, Metals & Mining, Manufacturing

Services

Testing, Inspection & Compliance, Banking, Insurance

Transport and Logistics

Mail, Passenger & Freight Rail, Trucking

Institutions

European Commission

We believe that Operational Excellence is essential to make Organisations sustainable. Our mission is to build our Clients' capabilities during their journey.

"Improof Solutions helped us deliver Bottom Line Result & build our Continuous Improvement Capability." Ludger Kuhn, Business Unit Manager at RKW Group, Gronau

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Our approach

5 Principles + 5 Levels of Maturity = Our Approach

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Our articles

Japan Lean Tour – Learning 1 – Improving your organisation everyday

Japan Lean Tour – Learning 1 – Improving your organisation everyday “Improve what we can, now, one step at a…

Field Service Excellence

Field Service Excellence Every company is different. Operational improvement levers depend on the business maturity and nature of each organisation.…

Lean Construction: Engineering & Planning and why they matter

Lean Construction: Engineering & Planning and why they matter Implementing Lean Engineering and Lean Planning help keeping construction projects under…

An Introduction to Lean Construction

An Introduction to Lean Construction In a sector where price pressure is high, competition is intense and margins are low,…

7 Practical tips about filming in production for a SMED project

7 Practical tips about filming in production for a SMED project SMED Single Minute Exchange of Die, is a technique…

The 10 types of Waste in the Office

The 10 types of Waste in the Office Another infographic about different types of losses, but this time we focus…

What it takes to climb the mountain called Operational Excellence

What does it take to climb the mountain called Operational Excellence? We post another infographic this week, in which we…

The 8 types of Waste in Manufacturing

The 8 types of Waste in Manufacturing In the following infographic we summarise the different types of losses you can…

What are the benefits of lean

What are the benefits of Lean? Lean is a management philosophy that focuses on eliminating waste so that all activities…

Roles and Responsibilities in a Lean program

Roles and Responsibilities in a Lean program To make a Lean program successful, clear definition of Roles and Responsibilities…

Lean-What means respect for people

What means respect for people Let’s compare two situations in two different organizations that experience the same market pressure. In…

Status Update Meetings

3 TIPS on Status Update meetings Last week I started writing about meetings. More specifically, I gave some tips about…

Productive Meetings

3 TIPS on running productive meetings Last week I talked about what makes meeting rooms effective. This week I will…

Productive Meeting Rooms

The holy trinity of productive meeting rooms As a consultant, you spend a lot of time in meeting rooms. Being…

Autonomous Problem Solving

Lean : Autonomous Problem Solving Lets see if you recognize this story. We at company X do many projects.…

Lean applied to running a marathon

Lean applied to running a marathon One of my adolescent dreams was to run a marathon. I have been running…

How to share Vision & Goals

Lean thinking: Shared vision and goals Most organisations have a strategy. Some organisations succeed in executing that strategy extremely well,…

Lean mind-sets: Sell problems and ask solutions

Lean mind-sets: Sell problems and ask solutions One person that has inspired me doing Lean implementation work is Prof. Filip…

Why learning to see losses matters

Why Learning to see Losses matters Starting to implement Lean? In the early stages, Lean change facilitators in your organisation,…

Do you truly listen to the Voice of Your Customers?

Do you truly listen to the Voice of Your Customers? Many organisations are focused on growth, profitability and efficiency. At…

Kaizen Problem Solving

Kaizen Problem Solving Perhaps it was impatience with how long traditional projects take. Often it was an awareness of how…

Kaizen Leader: What to expect ?

How Effective Is Your Kaizen Leader? A Kaizen leader heads up a team committed to identified quality improvement processes within…