STRAKT

Yesterday was the start of something that could be a game changer. Not just here in the UK but globally. An incredible range of very talented people representing every corner of UK manufacturing. Together in one room and with one common interest, UK Manufacturing. All in broad agreement on the need for change and the way to do it - radical collaboration. The goal moving forward is to create a working model here in the UK that creates a template for other economies to follow. This should be an interesting ride! Thanks to everyone who attended and those who couldn't make it on the day but were there in spirit!

This video of Frank Dick provides a wonderful summary of how individuals build world class performance and it’s something that articulates many of the ideas behind the STRAKT way. Winning is being better today than you were yesterday. Don’t compare yourself to others, focus on improving you own performance every day. Tough arenas challenge you to perform better. Don’t go around them. Learn by doing. You don’t learn to climb mountains by using a ladder…you climb mountains by climbing mountains. Leaders must have a clear shared vision. Their job is to deliver that and delegate the day to day and not the other way round. The young athlete in this example owned her vision and was supported by a great coach. We have a few more ideas. Improvement requires a balance of people improvement and process improvement. Focus on one and you don’t get the other. Economics of flow always beat economies of scale….always. Name a market leader and you’ll see flow. Co-located multidisciplinary teams in high bandwidth environments will always out perform isolated workers forced to work using Zoom and Monday like tools. The difference is measured in orders of magnitude. Technology is an amazing enabler, when kept simple and focused on value creation rather than job creation. https://lnkd.in/ewd-GgFD Ryan Badcock 🌟 Chris Cooper Jon Hill #Alwaysimprove #producitivity #winning

Alex Kendall the CEO of Wayve gave a very interesting, humble and deep talk at Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge last night. It really got me thinking and then he presented his conclusions. OMG, this is the embodied AI guru and what has he learned is what we coach and train high performing project teams on all the time. Don’t do the easy stuff first to feel like your making progress, do the high risk difficult part. It provides focus, tests your team and saves loads of time and money in the process. If you fail, you fail cheaply. Collect the data. Don’t optimise the stuff you can see but find the stuff that the data tells you. Vision with high humility. My take, don’t be an arsehole, a good idea is a good idea wherever it comes from…give credit, admit mistakes, help people feel the contribution they are making and guide the team back to the value being sort or the problem being solved right now. Best ideas come from cross discipline work. Yes yes yes and yes! We also find that the efficient work is cross discipline…it helps information in discoveries to flow, decisions to be taken, definitions to be developed, and deliverables to be done. The key is to maintain this as you scale and avoid the diseconomies as you do this. I will post on the other points about the technology later today, but needless to say Alex’s journey from building a drone in NZ to starting a PhD at Trinity in 2014 to leading a team of 450 motivated people today to deliver the vision he has is epic and an inspiration for all. Thanks Alex. STRAKT #embodiedai #ai #ProjectFlow #humble #scale #innovation #engineering

STRAKT we like to help you shed new light onto a problem and fix it…but the people at MIT have created a camera that can film at 1 trillion frames a second…so fast you can watch light move through space. It’s so fast that you can see the light hit an object and then a shadow form behind it. If you filmed a bullet going through an Apple it would take you a year to watch the video using this technology. Have a great weekend! https://lnkd.in/e25xwcRj

A big thanks to HCI Systems Limited - Gareth Clarke Tony Smith Charlie Wright Wright for hosting me at the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA) #CTS2024 awards ceremony at Silverstone. It was great to be in a room full of motorsport legends, innovators and manufactures big & small. STRAKT #UKMotorsport #Motorsport #Manufacturing #Innovation #ForeverImprove

A core part of The STRAKT Way is the building of collaborative multi-disciplinary teams working together in the same space to solve problems without the usual "email technical tennis" and other forms of waste. This is why, for our manufacturing clients, we are very pleased to be part of the The Quorum Principle...a group of suppliers who have got together with the purpose of doing what's right to help our clients. John Robinson's observations on the issues with improvement in manufacturing resonate with our own. It's why we called our business Strategy to Action...STRAKT. This short video explains the problem that manufacturing faces, but it will also apply to every business where humans work. Would appreciate your feedback.. #supportukmfg #shoutaboutukmfg #ukmanufacturing https://lnkd.in/eyYSN3UZ

A core part of The STRAKT Way is the building of collaborative multi-disciplinary teams working together in the same space to solve problems without the usual "email technical tennis" and other forms of waste. This is why, for our manufacturing clients, we are very pleased to be part of the The Quorum Principle...a group of suppliers who have got together with the purpose of doing what's right to help our clients. John Robinson's observations on the issues with improvement in manufacturing resonate with our own. It's why we called our business Strategy to Action...STRAKT. This short video explains the problem that manufacturing faces, but it will also apply to every business where humans work. Would appreciate your feedback.. #supportukmfg #shoutaboutukmfg #ukmanufacturing https://lnkd.in/eyYSN3UZ

Networking with CAMentrepreneurs in Oxford, UK. Are you boring enough to be World Class? ELLIOTT COOPER, Global Professional Stunt Performer, Professional Gymnast, Former Captain of England, 2022 ITF Taekwondo World Champion and founder of 3 start-ups will be asking the question "Are you boring enough to be World Class?" Monday October 14th 2024 @ 6pm Grassroots, Oxford Organised by Cambridge alumni for everyone….. please come along to our summer events for entrepreneurs, investors, students and others! Elliot Cooper will be networking and give a short talk on his journey and the techniques and underlying philosophy that have helped him to be truly world class in several fields. His focus is to help you on your journey too. As with other CAMentrepreneurs events, the main focus will be on structured networking so you can make plenty of new connections. If you’re an Investor, Entrepreneur, Student, Service Provider or simply interested in how new businesses are built….this is for you. Hosted by Richard Lucas and me, Jon Hill, we have a great speaker and an opportunity for you to share your start-up or service in 15 1 minute pitch slots and also 2 hours of organised networking over wine and canapés at the wonderful Grassroots building on Woodstock Road. All this thanks to the generosity of the partners of Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Register now at: https://lu.ma/wvtgu211 Do you want to do a 1-minute pitch? Request a slot here: https://lnkd.in/eYBYpwHx