December 9th, 2009
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 in the world, overtaking Ford and GM in the process. Read the rest of this entry »
Categories: Best Practices Assessment, Industrial Sector, Lean, Re-engineering
Tags: Lean
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October 1st, 2008
The 2008 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers awards, held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 16 October, announced that Blake Lapthorn is now the 21st most innovative law firm in Europe. The firm rose 18 places in the rankings, from its 2007 position.
The firm was commended for 4 project areas covering new services and ways of working including a new ‘Life Coaching Offering’ and ‘FirmJam’ an internal brainstorming week run on the firm’s intranet. Alison McClure, Transformation Partner, said: “The team have done a really good job this year in implementing our various Innovation projects and it’s extremely rewarding to see that all our hard work has received such great recognition in today’s FT Innovative Lawyers report. We will continue to generate our Innovation projects, which play a key part in the firm’s ongoing development.” Codexx has provided Blake Lapthorn with ongoing consulting support since 2005, to establish their innovation process and develop new services and ways of working.
Categories: Innovation, Law, Professional Services
Tags: Award, Blake Lapthorn, Financial Times, Innovation
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September 8th, 2008
Codexx has announced the release of its ‘New Vector’ re-engineering solution, based on over 15 years of re-engineering experience on client projects. New Vector has been developed to provide a time and cost-effective way of applying best practice re-engineering approaches for Services and Industrial companies. It uses a challenging and structured approach with a focus on strong involvement by client managers and employees. For more information, check our services.
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June 27th, 2008
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: “I have led regular best practice benchmarking assessments, at Grundfos since 1996 and have witnessed first-hand the major improvement effort and results achieved by their people. Their focus and sustained resourcing of improvement activities should be a lesson to all manufacturers. It has been a pleasure to work with Grundfos and apply methods such as benchmarking, world class manufacturing and Lean, to gain measureable and major improvement.” Grundfos A/S won the EFQM award in 2006 and continues to drive improvements across its manufacturing operations.
Categories: Best Practices Assessment, Industrial Sector, Lean
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January 17th, 2008
Codexx has been certified as a training partner for the ‘Managing Innovation’ training course developed by Dr David Francis of CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Management) at the University of Brighton and Barnes & Conti Inc. This unique course provides training in key skills across the innovation cycle. It is based on research conducted by Dr Francis with over 100 innovative organisations world-wide to identify common skills that were key to effective innovation. Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx said: ” I am pleased that we are able to offer this excellent course to clients – as far as we know, this is a unique course, and complements our other innovation solutions. ” Codexx has worked with CENTRIM on a number of innovation projects since 2002.
Categories: Catalyse & Train, Codexx News, Innovation, Systematic Innovation, Uncategorized
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July 12th, 2007
Codexx announced the opening of an office in Second Life, the fast growing online virtual community which is seeing increasing use by progressive businesses. “We will be using the office to provide an additional point of contact to Codexx services for businesses and more importantly to experiment with new ways of working, working with our clients and partners,” said Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx.
The Codexx office is located in the Depo Business Hub.
Categories: Codexx News, Innovation, Virtual Business
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February 15th, 2007
Codexx announced the purchase of the supply chain strategy and assessment solutions business from Supply Chain Analytics Ltd. This includes the SCAN supply chain assessment solution. Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx, said: “This is a valuable addition to our existing range of best practice strategy and assessment tools and allows us to further extend our existing services in innovation and supply chain management.”
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January 17th, 2007
Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London, hosted the presentation of the report on ‘Innovation in major UK law firms’, resulting from a joint study performed by Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx and John Bessant, Professor of Innovation Management at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College and supported by AIM Research. The audience comprised executives and partners from representatives of the 16 top 75 UK law firms who took part in the study. Alastair Ross said, “This unique study focused on an area of increasing importance to all law firms as they seek to compete in increasingly challenging markets.”
Categories: Innovation, Law
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November 13th, 2006
To help Codexx industrial clients assess their supply chain operations and strategies against best practices, as part of an improvement programme, Codexx has made available the SCAN supply chain assessment, developed with its partner Supply Chain Analytics Ltd in conjunction with British Standards Institute and Nottingham University. SCAN enables a detailed assessment against key supply chain best practices.
Categories: Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Supply Chain
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November 10th, 2006
Codexx played a key role in the research behind a new government environmental report, “Emerging markets in the environmental sector – November 2006″. As the consulting partner for UKCEED, who compiled the report, Codexx were responsible for defining and running fast-track scenario development and strategic road-mapping workshops with industry experts. Our work provided Case Studies and analysis for the important Contaminated Land Remediation and Environmentally Smart Buildings sectors.
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