Course Philosophy

Aims
Courses are useless unless they create change. Our aim is to transfer the skills we have developed in inventory anagement, supply chain, and manufacturing to participants.

These courses are for people who can improve the business by altering processes, systems or structures, or through better understanding of their role.  Not only do we educate participants on the techniques, we also discuss how they can be applied to their own situation.

Participants come from all types of companies and industries. There is a mixture of people from multinational groups and SMEs. (Sometimes grants are available for the latter.) We like to offer training at all levels in the business from Operators to Directors, so that they all can move in the same direction.
  
Unlike colleges, we specialise in training in small groups.  This enables individuals to discuss their own situation and ways to improve it.  Success is measured by course members who come back and say “We tried what you said .... and it worked!” 

As a company based on our specific expertise, the techniques that we teach people are normally ones which we have tried in practice, so we know the pitfalls as well as the theory.  We have found that applying the basic theories gives great results, if it is done properly, as we have proved many times in our consultancy activities. After all, the techniques have been developed by practitioners, often by “trial and error”.  We aim to enable people to develop without the error part.
 
We cannot guarantee success, but it is a pretty safe bet.

Application
As the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the benefits from a course are in the application to the business, we believe that courses should be part of the full development process.  To this end we urge companies that participate in our short courses to have a review day, some 6 weeks after any course. At this time participants can discuss how they have been able to change things and feed back success. In addition, there is the opportunity to review where things have not gone so well and offer advice on refined approaches.