First visit to the office in 2006

First visit to the office in 2006 today. Nice and quiet except for David the company secretary who was also in doing various company secretary and accounting things.

This also meant the first look of 2006 at the mess that is my desk...we had scheduled the last week of 2005 as a '5S' week for the office areas as part of the 5S implementation. Not a successful event I think.

As part of our company strategy, we are implementing Lean throughout the organization. Lean was the term given by the authors of "The machine That Changed The World: The Story of Lean Production" and was exemplified by the Toyota Production System (TPS).

Implementing 5S is the first 'foundation' we will be building in the company; I plan to be holding weekly 5S Kaizen events until Easter.

Change and lean in particular is my one of my many board responsibilities; together with communication, strategy and my main executive ownership of sales and marketing. I have my hands a bit full at the moment, but it's absolutely great fun.

So I sorted out some stuff on my desk, had one or two surprises which I will have to sort out before I go back.

One feeling I savour at this time of year is the feeling of possibilities with 12 months of my most valuable resource, time, in front of me. Not compressed into a few months with still a list as long as your arm still to be done. To be enjoyed whilst it lasts.