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		<title>How to be a leader in the innovation journey</title>
		<link>http://www.codexx.com/2011/how-to-be-a-leader-in-the-innovation-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has rarely been a time when innovation has been more important for businesses. Today’s challenging economic conditions allied with global competition provide a business landscape that is hostile to companies that stand still. The dramatic and seemingly incessant development of technologies – particularly those allied to the internet – provide opportunities for new products, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The innovation journey for product businesses &#8211; new study results</title>
		<link>http://www.codexx.com/2011/the-innovation-journey-for-product-businesses-new-study-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s critical in the innovation journey? 
What are the critical practices that businesses need to apply in their innovation journey from ideas to products generating value in the marketplace? This is the question we decided to try and answer at the end of 2009.  For it is a key question for businesses wanting to improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maintenance &#8211; Cinderella shall go to the ball</title>
		<link>http://www.codexx.com/2010/maintenance-cinderella-shall-go-to-the-ball/</link>
		<comments>http://www.codexx.com/2010/maintenance-cinderella-shall-go-to-the-ball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many (most?) manufacturing businesses,Maintenance is very much a ‘Cinderella’ function &#8211; it works away in the back-room of the business and never gets to go to the Ball unlike other more glamorous business functions.  Maintenance is not somewhere that ambitious young managers typically seek a career in as it is often seen as something of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has your Lean programme stalled (or never even started)?</title>
		<link>http://www.codexx.com/2009/has-your-lean-programme-stalled-or-never-even-started/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lean manufacturing techniques enable companies to dramatically improve their customer service, reduce their costs and improve their quality. The origins of Lean Manufacturing are over 50 years old, Toyota first started developing the new thinking and methods that became Lean in the 1950s. Toyota has used Lean to help it  become the largest automotive company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Codexx Manufacturing client achieves World Class practice</title>
		<link>http://www.codexx.com/2008/codexx-manufacturing-client-achieves-world-class-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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Codexx is pleased to announce that Grundfos A/S, the world leading pump manufacturer, has achieved a World Class level of manufacturing practices in its Danish factories according to the PROBE model. Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx, who led the recent benchmarking assessment at Grundfos said: &#8220;I have led regular best practice benchmarking assessments, at Grundfos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Codexx launches Foundations for Innovation (F4i)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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Codexx Associates Ltd announces &#8216;Foundations for Innovation&#8217; following the successful pilot of key components in an Industrial company and a Professional Services firm. F4i is a modular solution providing innovation auditing and the implementation of key foundations for an innovation system and supporting environment in an organisation. F4i was developed with the support of Professor [...]]]></description>
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