Over the years, I've written a number of practical 'how to' books around continuous improvement. This page features a selection of these books that should be helpful to your improvement journey.

I wrote this book to deal with the frustration many business leaders and managers face...

Why don't I get the results that I want?

This book focuses on what you want to achieve, and how you want to achieve it, rather than just pointing out problems.

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There are many continuous improvement tools out there. This book cuts through the myriad of options to help you create an approach that works for you.

Quick, practical and loaded with options to help you make change happen.

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If you find that your business relies too heavily on a few 'superheroes' and you want to get off the chaos rollercoaster, then check out Losing the Cape.

Systems thinking, working at cause (rather than effect) and raising standards. This book is aimed at the business owner, or manager, that wants consistent results.

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If you aren't sure how much of a change you need to make, or you want to find a way to balance out your business processes, then Takt Time is the book for you.

This well known manufacturing technique has been boiled down to provide a number of strategies that can be applied in any sector.

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Have you used the fishbone analysis technique for root cause problem solving?

This book flips that idea and shares with you a number of options to use this tool in reverse for goal setting, business planning and improving engagement with your teams. 

Available from Amazon.

At the root of many business issues is a lack of a formal business routine. Routines help coordinate teams, clarify expectations and provides and amazing building block towards forming effective habits.

Every Business Needs A Routine shares a practical way to identify what needs to go into an effective routine and challenges the reader to make sure they extend the routines into the right parts of the business!

Available from Amazon.

If you don't feel that you get to the bottom of your business problems, check out Effective Root Cause Analysis.

In this book, the 5 Why? approach is explored to make it a more effective tool, with practical extensions to the idea. If you want to deal with problems once and for all, check out this book today.

Available from Amazon.

Creating a future state for your business isn't always the easiest thing to produce. This book, Optimised Future State, presents a series of ideas to help with mapping your existing process and generating plans for the future.

The book also covers evaluation of future states and provides tips on creating an effective action plan for delivering this vision of the future.

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If you want to improve the on time delivery performance of your business, whilst streamlining how it works, this book is for you.

Practical in nature, this book shares real life examples with a simple model to help drive up the results you experience in your business.

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Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are a vital business tool that are often left to get dusty on our office's shelves. Used correctly, SOPs can deliver notable business results including improved quality, shorter training periods and better profits.

This book helps the reader to write SOPs that are accurate and provides ideas on how they can be woven into day-to-day business activities, so they get used rather than gather dust!

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A daily Sunrise meeting can do wonders to deliver results for your business and keep the team working effectively together.

Step-by-step, this book guides you through the thinking required to define an effective, and short, daily team meeting. With ideas on how to improve your Sunrise meeting, this book can help you to improve how your business runs.

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A good set of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) can make all the difference to your management decision making.

Instead of providing a story of what happened, a good set of KPIs can help you change direction and achieve the results you want for your business. This book provides step by step instructions on how to define the best KPIs for your business and how to use them effectively.

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This simple, low cost and highly effective visual management tool is brilliant for both management and habit forming.

Kamishibai Boards is a step by step guide on how to identify the key recurring tasks for your business and how to construct your very own visual management tool.

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If you are feeling overwhelmed in your office, with too many tasks to deal with, then Office Productivity is for you.

With eight main sections, this book looks at workplace organisation, conquering emails, team meetings and more.

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This book follows Giles Johnston's time as a Production Manager in factory that was consistently delivering late.

From the lessons learned, to the struggles to the successes, this book covers the journey that raised the on time delivery performance from approximately 20% to 98%+ (consistently), whilst reducing the lead time from nearly 19 weeks to under 4 weeks.

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We all know that buying an ERP / MRP system takes more than just purchasing and logging on to achieve a step change in factory performance.

Making MRP Work is a practical guide that explains the thinking that needs to take place for a system to really deliver results. The book also provides guidance on proper day to day management of the system, as well as improving your system and developing an action plan to make all of this happen.

Available from Amazon, Apple Books and other e-reader stores.