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IMPROVEMENT DIRECT
Lean Business Coaching & Consulting
Get the help you want to make the improvements you need
Improvement Direct helps you:
Identify and focus on your priorities for improvement: Make the right choices toward maximum gains. Amplify your improvement efforts through agile group engagement methods. Get results through Lean Management: Better delivery of services and products, a safer & healthier work-place, a happier motivated Team, improving planet footprint and sustained profits & growth.
We offer valuable support to do this…. just enough of the right stuff... because it’s so essential that you control the Lean implementation process and fully own the learning, the methods and the outcomes.
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About Improvement Direct
Peter Maunder, Managing Director of Improvement Direct
Improvement Direct continues to develop and refine Lean Training and Consulting plans to support customers and draws on 20 years of business continuity in the challenging New Zealand Lean market. General Manager Peter Maunder will be your trainer and consultant. His most relevant training and experience comes from 15 years with Toyota. Through this time, Peter worked in Production, Quality Assurance and Education & Training applying, and fully understanding the Toyota Production System.
How Dominion Salt achieved 20% productivity Gains and annual savings of 200k!
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It has been an absolute pleasure to partner with you over the course of our Lean program.
I have benefited both personally and professionally from having the opportunity to be part of the Continuous Improvement journey at Bluebird (you won’t believe how organised my office looks right now!!)
Deanne Schoeman
We have called our Lean program Aria Continuous Improvement.
ACI has revolutionized our business and the way we all think. Doing things a better and a more efficient way is what we are about all the time, it is a great culture to have and work in...
...I have learnt how to organise a lot better not only at work but also at home and everyday life.
Learning better and more efficient ways to setting up systems. Keeping area’s tidy and having a purpose for everything. Learning kanban, 5 s’s, quick change, idea mapping, personal development, scheduling etc. Lewis (Factory Manager)
Anna Arndt
We were approached by the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce in early 2014 to evaluate areas of our business with which we needed/wanted assistance. We were very keen to investigate ways to improve our stock systems and it was at this point that they put us in contact with Peter Maunder of Improvement Direct.
What a fortuitous meeting!
We began working with Peter almost a year ago, with priority placed on the LEAN development of our stock systems and other processes, identifying the areas of “waste” that needed our attention. Latterly, we have also worked with Peter on our time management. Over a number of sessions, we have been made to look at the way we did things, to think outside the square and find solutions for ourselves. (RBP Funding supported training)
The time we have spent with Peter has been invaluable. He has a wealth of knowledge and this was clear to us right from the start. He quickly developed a rapport with our team and we have found the process incredibly worthwhile, respecting Peter’s thorough approach and depth of experience.
We have been charged with keeping the improvements coming but know that, should we ever need a boost, Peter is only a phone call away.
We have no hesitation in recommending Peter to anyone considering a sure fire way to improve their business systems.
Barbara Martin
We at Puma Darts started our Lean journey almost 4 years ago, and at the time engaged Peter Maunder at Improvement Direct as our consultant to get us on the way... Whilst Peter was hands-on in getting things done, he was also hands-off enough to steer us and guide us in the right direction and let us find our own path as well. I believe that is one of the key things with Lean with Improvement Direct. It is very much 'your' project, they are just there to train and guide and assist on the journey.
The results we have had through Lean cannot be understated. A huge improvement in not only the factory tidiness, organisation, layout and the practicalities of the Lean journey. Team morale, and company culture have made huge improvements and really brought us all together as a team. For me, I think a big part of Lean journey is getting the involvement and commitment from staff buy-in from the start and get everybody working together.
As a result of that, and from the improvement ideas, set-ups, and training, we have substantially reduced cost across all departments (in some cases labour per unit has halved); done almost a complete re-layout of the dart area; moved machines, people; changed processes, production lines. We have added not only to the efficiency of the operation, but also made things easier and more practical for our staff and also produced a better quality product.
Peter McCormick
