Who are LEAN Consortium?

Founded in 2002 by two highly experienced professional consultants, Paul Bell and Andrew Nicholson, The Lean Consortium has evolved to be one of the UK's most successful improvement programmes. In 2007 John Macdonald, a former participant of the programme, joined the company as Business Development Director. For more information about John and Andrewview their profiles on LinkedIn.

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Our team of specialists and associates are all highly experienced professionals with years of operational knowledge and hands-on implementation behind them, usually having graduated as engineers and then gained additional qualifications in Performance Improvement. More important than that, however, are their track records in completing successful improvement projects within clients' businesses.

Our clients will always be the best source of information on how effective we are: click here to take a look at what they have said about the programme, and here to view our case studies.

Articles

  • Taking Lean to the next level

  • Lean tools grew out of manufacturing, but now have evolved to suit all parts of an organisation. Join us for a day to find out how you can move your whole business up a gear.
  • Frustrated by Lean?

  • Many, many businesses have had a go at implementing something lean, and most have achieved some benefit from their efforts, but if your progress is slow or looks like stalling then this is for you...
  • Whole Company Transformation

  • Transforming your whole business sounds like a big job (it is) but going about it in the right way makes 'whole business lean' achievable. How? Read on...
  • Lean Consortium Past Participants

  • The Lean Consortium alumni list includes companies large and small, from virtually every sector...
  • Lean Consortium Case Studies

  • Timberworx slash lead time from 8 weeks to 10 days Struggling to meet customer demands for delivery and quality, Timberworx used Lean Consortium to engage their staff...