The Organisational Excellence Handbook
The Book
This Organisational Excellence Handbook encapsulates a wealth of experience, combining industrial experience and academia. This book is an essential addition to the toolkit of any professional in the continuous improvement (CI) field or any professional looking to enter the field.
Thoughtfully constructed to inspire readers and equip them with various principles and resources that can be applied to any organisation striving to elevate from good to excellent.
The purpose of this book is not to tell you what to do or how to do it, but rather to bring together those great thought leaders and innovators from our past and present. To share their knowledge, insights and experiences that may help students, frontline supervisors, managers, and leaders better understand the various principles, models, systems, tools, and techniques that you may be able to adopt and or adapt to suit your specific challenges and help enable you to create sustainable business or organisational improvements or transformations.
The Author
George Donaldson has over 40 years of experience in the dynamic field of leadership and enterprise excellence coaching; his career has been an incredible journey of facilitating progression, instilling reliability engineering, and breeding organisational excellence.
He began his career as an Electrical & Electronic Engineer before emigrating to Canada to take up a leadership role with a General Motors franchise. He then joined the Toronto Star (Canada’s largest newspaper) as Continuous Improvement & Engineering Manager.
Returning to the UK in 2007 marked a significant milestone as he led improvement and excellence initiatives at News International. Under his guidance, hardworking teams landed a plethora of prestigious accolades, including the Global Operational Excellence Prize (2014), the British Excellence Award for Lean Manufacturing (2011), and the coveted Shingo Prize in 2014. In 2015, George was overjoyed to be recognised as one of Europe’s top influencers in lean management.
He is also proud to add 'author' to his list of achievements. This book, 'The Manufacturers Network Organisational Excellence Handbook', is what he calls his humble contribution to the field he loves.
Reviews
This book is easy to read both front-to-back and as a reference tool. It covers all things associated with Operational excellence and is, therefore, incredibly useful to both newcomers to OpEx and experienced improvement professionals. George has also managed to capture the human element of improvement, which is often the thing missing from lean/CI books. His experience and passion leap from the pages and will leave you feeling motivated to implement the tools in your own workplace. Brilliant.
Ive known George for a number of years, and I consider him a good friend and a mentor when it comes to introducing and implementing lean tools and systems into organizations, George has lived and breathed these tools and systems for the vast majority of his career and has worked with many companies at many levels. Hi book simplifies the concepts and the benefits of applying lean fundamentals thinking into businesses.
The Organisational Excellence Handbook is an exceptional reference book that seamlessly blends academic theory with practical experience. It offers a wealth of insightful guides that can be strategically deployed or utilised in day-to-day operations. This book is essential for anyone committed to Continuous Improvement. Not only do I recommend it, but I also intend to purchase copies for my entire team.