Darren empowered people beyond expectations, allowing us to solve long-standing problems, reduce costs and increase our service to the business.

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Darren Walsh was instrumental in organizing and providing the graduate engineers at Zodiac Aerospace appropriate training in Lean methods to reach Lean Green Belt status and help the company achieve its goal of having the next generation of engineers adequately equipped to ensure an efficient, effective and sustainable operations of the business.

His Lean knowledge and ability to share that knowledge was second to none, such that he planted the seed in my own head to study more and I later qualified with a Lean Black belt. His approach was always one of collaboration and sharing as a way of getting things done and as a way of ultimately delivering value to the customer.

Darren has a way to make people understand Lean and the benefits of incorporating it and thinking Lean that everyone understands. Darren is also witty, calm and caring as a colleague while at the same time very focused and goal oriented.

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Darren led the plant transformation, it went from a plant with so much resistance to change to a plant of operators taking the lead in shop floor reviews

Darren is a highly successful culture change manager with excellent skills in embedding a Lean mind-set, management system and improvement tools as a working standard in both manufacturing and supporting functions.

He has an obvious passion for his subject. His approach is to develop people to strengthen processes following the lean guidelines rather than just applying tools. This leads to a deeper and more sustained improvement.

This was my first time applying Lean concepts in a business process and in a complicated environment. I found Darren to be a fantastic resource and a great coach, each time I approached Darren with a thorny issue, he was able to see through to the heart of the matter and provide solid, practical advice.

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I have come to know Darren as being one of the most passionate and transformational Lean thinkers in the network. He brought a whole new dimension to Lean whilst at Boston Scientific and has a proven track record of influencing and leading successful site-wide transformations.

Darren is a calm individual with a very solid manner about him and that comes across in the way he operates and helps him to be more effective, particularly in a highly pressurized environment. One example was delivering SDC improvement project and improving output by 50% (22 to 36k units per week) whilst freeing up 180 people.

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Senior management often believe they know how to affect real change in their organizations which really means they are happy with small incremental efficiency gains year after year. Lean as Darren has proven is counter intuitive to many traditional management thought processes. It requires real change. It requires an understanding of effective Lean methodologies and a commitment to breakthrough change and sustained improvement’

Welcome to Breakthrough Improvement

Start your Journey

Already started on your Lean journey, but not seeing the results that you expected, unsure of your next improvement action.

Want to improve your business performance, profitability and organisational capability.

BreakThrough Improvement will help you improve the effectiveness of your business and business improvement approach by navigating the common pitfalls of Lean and developing your employee capability to improve the work.

BreakThrough Performance

At BreakThrough Improvement we recognise that change is hard, and that most organisations still struggle with Lean transformation and that’s why we have dedicated our action research to understanding the obstacles to effective Lean transformation and change.
By combining insight of these common pitfalls with other areas of best practice we are able to drastically improve the effectiveness of our approach to deliver a step change in business performance.

Developing Employee Capability

One of my most rewarding aspects of supporting businesses, is leaving that business with long term improvement capability that is able to sustain changes and make further business improvement.

In this month’s focus case study we highlight - an example of a leading organisation that used Lean management routines to help accelerate the development of improvement capability in both senior and front line management. .

Delivering Business Improvement

Lean thinking is all about continuously applying small cycles of improvement activity, to improve the work, develop people and deliver improved customer value. When these improvements are applied effectively and in the correct areas of the business they often lead to a real step change in performance.

This month’s highlight – is an example of delivering breakthrough performance within a Medical/ Pharmaceutical business saving of over $20Mn.

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