Business Excellence, Operational Excellence and Career Development
Thoughts on the future of Business Excellence, Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence by Finbarr Sheehy
For years, process improvement was associated with a familiar toolkit: process mapping, root cause analysis, Lean, Six Sigma, standard work, KPI boards, and continuous improvement workshops. Those skills still matter.…
Lean’s core principles still fit today’s business environment, but many of its classic tools need reinterpretation, augmentation, and (in some cases) replacement to stay relevant in a digital, knowledge‑intensive world.…
Six Sigma was born in an era where most defects were tangible: contamination events, yield loss, rework, scrap, downtime, or out-of-spec results. In pharma and medical devices, those issues still…
Most CAPA systems aren’t broken because people don’t care. They fail because they quietly reward the wrong behaviour: close it fast, document it well, move on. The result is “CAPA…
If you’ve worked through a Lean rollout, a Six Sigma deployment, an ERP implementation, a MES upgrade, or a shiny new “AI-enabled” initiative, you’ve probably felt an uncomfortable déjà vu:…