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Quality operational excellence training firms: We empower people at all levels to make a difference and generate a sustainable return on investment. Irrespective of the challenge, we’re accessible and ready to stand shoulder to shoulder as your trusted transformation partner. For nearly two decades, Linea has supported prominent UK and International organisations in achieving exceptional performance and continuous improvement. Working in partnership with our clients, we have developed an enviable track record of rapid and sustainable improvement, overcoming complex challenges to deliver multi-million-pound savings. Read even more details on Efficiency Improvement Training. Delivery Focused: We’re renowned for our robust data-driven & delivery-orientated approach.

We deliver individual and team leadership capability development programmes, which enhance internal expertise and support self-sufficiency to create winning leaders, effective change management and knowledgeable, capable and empowered teams. Linea supports leaders and team effectiveness, regardless of experience, industry, speciality and locality to unlock the benefits of their personal development for your organisation, helping to realise transformational leadership potential, challenge preconceptions and overcome self-limiting beliefs to make dreams and aspirations a reality.

Holistically review and analyse the organisation’s starting position, to completely understand the needs of the business and identify the root causes of any challenges it faces, whether this be a change of business model, persistent underperformance, stagnation, or an imminent crisis. Assess the company’s operating position using our Financial & Operational Recovery Model (FORM)TM and develop a clear plan for how we will maximise the financial efficiency and operational improvement of the organisation. Our approach identifies the best-value areas for investment, efficiency, and cost reduction.

We have supported organisations applying the Excellence Model for many years, including International Award Winners. We support organisational excellence & self-sufficiency, using the EFQM Excellence Model from the European Foundation for Quality Management as a global quality framework for improvement. We assist teams to facilitate self-assessment and benchmarking, identify improvement opportunities and adopt a standard vocabulary through the use and deployment of the EFQM Model as an organisational management system.

We understand how these difficult & complex challenges can be overcome. Which is why we work closely with organisations to deliver effective change management solutions which address the root causes of these problems. This includes: Developing a coherent approach to backlog management by maximising existing utilisation, enhancing productivity & identifying additional ways to create new capacity by ‘sweating assets’, while developing innovative working processes, which transform culture. We understand that the strength of the healthcare sector and the health of the nation are directly linked. Therefore, we are committed to helping these organisations to successfully transform their operations and overcome current challenges, in order to ensure a bright future of responsive, efficient, affordable and patient-centred care for all.

Through our strategic change management support, we preserve value, improve results and deliver quantifiable positive impact. Our change management specialists are experts in the development and implementation of financial restructuring, process improvement & efficiency programmes. Providing unparalleled strategic alignment & deployment advice, timely operational support and hands-on delivery interventions, which achieve exceptional performance through continuous productivity & cost improvement and sustained transformational change management strategy.

We help businesses to outperform the competition through a continuous improvement process, leveraging our expertise in process improvement & efficiency. Our team utilises operational excellence methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma, EFQM and Agile to drive a continuous improvement cycle, enhancing performance and efficiency across frontline operations and corporate support services. The EFQM Model provides a strategic approach to transformation, which inspires leaders at every level and creates a culture committed to driving sustainable improvement and accelerated performance.

Our initial services focused on the logistics & manufacturing sectors. Driven by a fundamental desire to challenge convention, a strong achievement record, client recommendation and industry recognition, we continued our crusade, bestowing our knowledge and experience across a wide range of industry sectors, supporting clients in the pursuit of excellence and achievement of increased performance and efficiency. Over the years, we have honed our expertise, developed our service offer and expanded our client base, but our purpose remains unchanged. Today we benefit from an exceptional track record of overcoming complex challenges for prominent UK and International Public and Private Sector clients, delivering multi-million- pound savings. Read more details on https://www.linea.net/.