Giles Johnston: 12 books

What does good look like for your business? Many businesses have a gap between what they want their business to look like and how it actually works. Are you looking for a way to improve your business operations, but in a really practical step-by-step way that quickly targets your current issues? Or,...

Is Your CI Delivering Results? Continuous Improvement, or CI, is a heavily used term that often doesn't deliver the results that are hoped for. Common approaches to CI often focus on supporting businesses to eliminate their problems and become 'OK' in terms of business performance. However, most people...

Create More Effective HabitsIf you need to increase your effectiveness in the workplace and need a visual management tool to help with day to day task management then this short guide is for you.Giles Johnston, a business improvement consultant, takes you through the steps needed to...

Do You Need To ‘Upgrade’ The Way Your Business Works? 'Business Process Re-engineering’ is a practical how to guide based on the author's experience of helping businesses to improve their business performance. It is aimed at the person whose job it is to make operational and on time delivery...

Is your MRP system helping your business to perform, or is it just creating more work for you? ‘Making MRP work’ is a practical guide aimed at Operations Managers and business directors who need some support with their MRP / ERP system. If you are operating an existing MRP system but feel...

Are you ready to lose the cape? Many businesses operate in a state of chaos – people running around, working hard, just to achieve a mediocre level of performance. When crisis situations arise we are often lucky enough to have a ‘super hero’ work for us that can help us to get out of...

Do you deliver on time? On Time Delivery is one of those hygiene factors you get with business life. You expect your products to be shipped on time, just like you expect the quality to be right. When delivery performance is poor then a whole load of chaos can ensue, and this time depleting...

Do your changing workloads make you wonder if your business processes are still ‘fit for purpose’? Do you want to find a method to guide you when you are looking to get more work completed during the working day? Are you looking to achieve more tangible results from your business...

Do your SOPs work for your business? Standard Operating Procedures, or SOPs, are an essential part of any business to ensure that quality and consistency occur like clockwork amidst the busy-ness of day to day working. Unfortunately SOPs are often neglected in terms of their importance...

Do you get stuck with your future state maps? This short guide, ‘Optimised Future State’, can help you and your team to adopt a very straightforward and easy to use framework that takes the guesswork out of developing an optimal future state map for your business. Whether your process...

Does your business run like clockwork?The working day can be busy can’t it?It can be easy to get thrown off course and end the working day asking yourself ‘what happened?’There is another way.What is a Sunrise Meeting?When you define how your business should work and distil...

Do you want to speed up how your office works? Office Productivity is a short guide written by an experienced business consultant to help you improve the productivity and effectiveness of your office. If you find that work pours into your business and your 'to do' lists are getting longer...