Roads Kaizen Team Wins Award

Congradulations to the Perth and Kinross Council Roads Kaizen Team who won the Promoting Sustainability Award at the Council Securing The Future Awards on the 5th May 2008. The team consisted of Council employees and Tayside Contracts employees. The Roads and Lighting Defects Kaizen investigated how defects and service requests were passed from a member of the public to Roads and Lighting staff and how they were dealt with. The award is recognition of the outstanding improvements the team have made to the process. Well done everyone.

Public Service Leadership Scotland 2008
22nd April SECC Glasgow

Breakout session:Leading Rapid Improvement In The Public Sector - 13:45 - 14:45

A showcase of award-winning successes achieved through Rapid Improvement leadership within public sector organisations, including NHS, The Scottish Government & local authorities, including delivering results, embedding capability & ensuring longevity. It will showcase a major innovation in rapid improvement & feature real cases, described by a leader, Stuart Ross, who facilitated outstanding results and trained other in the techniques.

The event will also be used to launch new courses from Napier University based on the Ross International system. Napier will soon be offering a Post Graduate Diploma and a MSc in Leading Rapid Improvement. Entry qualification for these courses is only open to Rapid Improvement facilitators who have been through the Ross International, ILM accredited, training programme.

Ross International are working in partnership with ibp Academy

Business in the Parliament

Ross Interantional was invited to speak at the annual Business in the Parliament Conference at Holyrood on the 22nd February 2007. Run jointly with the Scottish Government, the conference’s main aim is to provide a forum by which Ministers and MSPs can engage with the business community.

Stuart Ross (MD) was one of the key speakers in the session called 'Challenging Management Conventions.' During his presentation Stuart talked about his views on the way forward for Scottish business. His key message was that organisations who fully involve their people using the Lean principles can experience dramatic improvements in their business processes with substantially reduced costs.

Shell trains kaizen facilitators

Ross International are now working with Shell to train a number of key personnel as Kaizen facilitators with the view to spreading Lean across Europe.

NHS Tayside Rapid Improvement Event

Ross International have seen the fantastic opportunities for using Lean in the Health Service and our involvement in this sector is gaining momentum. An example of this is the NHS Tayside Urology RIE which had the goal of developing a One-Stop shop for Frank Haematuria patients across Tayside. A multidisciplinary team of 16 people attended the Rapid Improvement Event. Using Lean methodology the Team designed a new process to improve the patient journey. This was discussed with all sites in order to gain acceptance and was then implemented.

Ross International Move to Edinburgh Park

In the summer of 2007 Ross International moved the base of operations from Milngavie Enterprise Centre in Glasgow to Edinburgh Park.