LEAN process thinking

Can the lessons of LEAN be translated in to your business processes? Can we learn how to deliver improved performance in a financial institution or government agency by realigning the processes using LEAN thinking?

Well at C I Systems we believe that they can and we have introduced new learning initiatives based on LEAN. Introducing games and role play where teams work in “factory units” to deliver product with the objective of being on time and to customer specification participants learn the thinking required to improve working processes and to test ideas in a practical workshop.

The workshops are effective as the learning is though experience, questionnaires and discussion. They are stimulating, memorable and fun, but most of all because they are relevant to your people and processes. If you are a Performance Manager seeking to get buy in from managers to re-evaluate their processes these fun, 1-day workshops, are an ideal first step. If you have gone on and documented the “as-is” but want to understand how to go about attaining the “to-be” the practical Lean process workshops will help you drive the process forward.

Sales and Marketing Skills

Is Sales a science or an art? (If you have a degree in Business Studies is it a B.A. or a B.Sc?)
Is a salesman born or made?

Well it may be some combination of all of these, but we have worked with a number of sales teams this year and seen a profound change on performace. We have done this by looking at:

• sales strategies (individual and corporate)
• putting in proper reporting procedures and systems so management and sales people alike know what is happening
• aligning strategy with rewards (i.e. if you pay commission, pay it on what you want to sell not on what makes the least profit)
• SMART target setting. Do you know, it still works but the devil is in the detail, and we can help with that.

Since the 1980s Peter has been a sales professional. At 3M in the 1980s he was an annual member of the “Winners Club”. He went on to sell major systems around the world for IT companies during the 1990s, regularly closing sales in excess of £1m. In 2000 he started a software company from his attic office at home and within 4 years had achieved a turnover in excess of £500k and employed a staff of 7 with offices in Chester. He has a simple philosophy, that if you focus on your company’s strengths and target the companies or people you want to sell to, you can be successful.

Training on the software solutions of Corporate Information Systems

We provide full training on all the software solutions we deliver. This includes:

• CIS-HRM
• 2C8 Process Modeler, and
• PageFreezer web archiving..

If you would like more details about any of our training packages please email:

Email: Corporate Information Systems Limited