Improve Your Business (Part 3) – Value of Waste
Waste Elimination – Understanding what TIM WOODS is Costing YOU In our last Newsletter, we introduced the concept of waste and that this exists in every business. If you are to be competitive by delivering a product or service which the consumer or customers are prepared to pay for while ensuring the organisation makes money, […]
Up to 80% of everything we do to make a product or provide a service doesn’t add any value to the customer!
Improve Your Business with Lean Thinking – Waste In last month’s newsletter we introduced the concept of Lean Thinking as a way of improving your business and stated over coming months we would be developing and sharing some of the concepts and tools used in this philosophy. Typically an organisation calculates the price of a […]
The West Gate Bridge Disaster
The West Gate Bridge Disaster On the 15th of October 1970 at 11.50 a.m. a 367-ft. span of the West Gate Bridge collapsed without warning killing 35 men.
Increase to National Minimum Wage
Annual Wage Review decision by Fair Work Commission has resulted in a 3.3% increase.
Improve Your Business with Lean Thinking
Article by Grant Winter In today’s business environment competitiveness is constantly increasing, whether it’s the rapidly changing legislative landscape or the greater number of competitors, many of which could be international in nature having much lower cost structures and inputs. Add to this, advances in technology plus the changes in our demographics leads to a […]
The True Cost of Work Injuries
The True Cost of Work-Related Injury, Illness and Disease in Australia Work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths impose real and significant costs on employers, workers and the community. These include both direct costs and indirect costs. Direct costs include items such as workers’ compensation premiums paid by employers or payments to injured or incapacitated workers.
Dismissal upheld – Confidential client list
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed an employee’s application for unfair dismissal, finding that the employer’s decision to terminate the employee for serious misconduct was reasonable as the employee’s action can be construed as constituting a breach of the confidentiality obligations in her employment contract. An employee who held the position of Account Executive was […]