Jazz Hands Management Ltd

29/11/2017

A good afternoon's work going over the basics of change management in a 2 hour workshop hosted by Simply Lean Business Solutions

01/11/2017

I'm currently trying the Phoenix approach

Multipotentialites make for great leaders

14/09/2017

Great turnout at the Canterbury Tech Summit.

23/08/2017

The wife/business partner - Rachael Page and I spent an informative evening at a Tech Comm NZ event featuring guest speaker Helen Maskery, Enterprise Change Manager at Synlait Milk Limited, on the subject of ‘Sticky Change’. i.e. making change stick

There were lots of practical real world examples of some great successes in project management and some not so great, and what do when you meet resistance.

17/08/2017

Spent a great afternoon at Schneider Electric Christchurch looking at the fruits of Lean thinking and a well implemented continuous improvement mindset.

The highlight for me had to be the idea station terminal in the middle of the factory for production workers to register ideas for improvement. These ideas then fed into the company's KPI system for monitoring and followup.

It's always great to see a company that recognizes the valued contribution that those with hands-on experience of the product have to offer.

27/07/2017

Roll on September 14th!

The annual CanterburyTech Summit is the preeminent industry event of the year for the tech sector. This one-day conference hosts national and international speakers as well as a trade show area. The Tech Summit offers both aspirational and educational content and allows attendees to learn about new…

15/07/2017

It's been an exciting 1st year here at Jazz Hands! Time to celebrate our first birthday with CAKE! We have completed some interesting work with great clients, made many new contacts and revived old networks along the way. Spending time with other "Lean" minded folk at the Christchurch Lean Network's events and hanging out with the business leaders of Canterbury at the Chamber of Commerce has been inspiring and refreshing.
We added PRINCE2 and MSP to the list of qualifications the team hold.
Our first AGM in March was a success - a fantastic day of strategy and planning in the beautiful surroundings of Hanmer Springs!
Have you seen the website recently? There have been some updates and additions worth checking out. http://www.jazzhands.co.nz
Not forgetting the new page, like if you like!
Happy Birthday to us, can't wait to see what the next year brings.

14/07/2017

Following a devastating fire in their production facility in 2016, Salcom Technologies Ltd were forced to find new manufacturing premises which ended up having a smaller production area. Using the new constraints, Jazz Hands Management Ltd was brought in to produce optimized production layouts to provide increased factory throughput and promote production flow from the smaller facility.

11/07/2017

Spent the morning at a business tax update seminar at Nexia New Zealand covering some new tax changes coming up. Exciting stuff for those of us who like deductions.