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Case Studies: Agility Centre

The Agility Centre, based at the University of Liverpool Management School is a centre dedicated to helping SMEs and other businesses improve their operations, processes and management, with a particular focus on lean thinking and supply chain management.

Here you will find real life Case Studies detailing how businesses have been transformed by minimising waste, cutting costs and improving leadership and management throughout.

Case Study Downloads:

 Daryl Showers

 Specialist Frame (Part 1, Part 2)

 Richardson's Healthcare (Part 1, Part 2)

 Shawcross and Dickinson

 Openhouse Products

 Truepoint

 The Promenade

 Alphasonics

 Royal Extrusions (Part 1, Part 2)

 ICE Student Projects

 Techplas Colours (Part 1, Part 2)

 Beverston Engineering

 Self Audit - Agility

 BEA Audit tool

 Agility capability indicators

 SAB-WABCO Case study

 Dieline-Riekel Case study

 Daryl Industries Case study

 Product similarity coefficients for component re-use – overview and explanation of the method

 Part two – the coefficients applied within two case study companies

 Example sales coaching tools part one. This is a document we use for sales and strategic growth coaching for small firms as an introduction to what we do.

 Example sales coaching part two. This document focuses on feature benefits analysis.

 Example sales coaching part two A. This document provides a working example of feature benefits analysis.

 Example sales coaching part three. This document focuses on psychological strategies for making sales calls

 Example tools – developing good habits. This document focuses on how to develop good marketing habits so that the small firm can become more marketing-oriented.

 Example tool – portfolio analysis. We developed this as a marketing coaching tool to explain to small companies about how portfolio analysis can be used to grow the business.

Workshops:

 5s workshop presentation (pps file)

 Strategy workshop presentation, part one (pps file)

 Strategy workshop presentation, part two (pps file)

 Business process management workshop (pps file)

 SMED workshop (pps file)

Agility Tools and Techniques:

 5S technique

 Business process re-engineering or BPR

 Just in Time

 Kanban

 Mass customisation

 Material Requirements Planning or MRP

 Overall Equipment Effectiveness or OEE

 Six Sigma

 Statistical Process Control or SPC

 Total Quality Management or TQM

Eleco Timberframe - Featured Case Study  
Eleco Timberframe - A Case Study in the Implementation of an Agile Manufacturing Approach

Eleco Timberframe Ltd. is a small company (SME) that has over 30 years experience in the design and supply of timber engineered structures for the building industry. From its state-of-the-art production facility based in Speke, the company has gone from..

Source: Agility Centre
Date: Tuesday February 26, 2008

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