“Melanie Smart has impressed with her knowledge, understanding and her appreciation of topical issues facing UK industry. She has actively promoted initiatives in industry and academia to improve the performance and competitiveness UK plc...”
Philip Wardle, Project Engineering Manager, BAE Systems -Chelmsford
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“I can count on one hand the number of people I have come across in my business career that are on the right wavelength with impressive immediacy. Melanie is one of those people...”
Sanjeev Thearia, Managing Director, Arventa Systems Ltd
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"Alan is adept at leading large complex programs with cross functional, globally distributed teams, to deliver innovative solutions. His leadership strengths, domain expertise, in-depth experience and pleasant demeanour make him a dependable leader who can deliver solid results, and an excellent person to work with.”
Subbu Ranganathan, Senior Program Manager, Motorola
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"Nicola restructured our HR administration function. She was professional and perceptive in her approach and it felt as though Nicola was an integral part of our team."
Paula Bates, Head of HR Operations, Davis Langdon LLP
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"Bryan Woods has a wealth of experience in management of green field and mature manufacturing processes, combined with a rare mix of professionalism, pragmatism and sheer dedication."
Luke Bennett -Operations Director, Lotus Cars Plc
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"I highly recommend Fiona Campbell she is continually updating her training with the most up to date skills I have developed and is licensed internationally through the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming."
Dr Richard Bandler (co-founder NLP)
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The Company > People
"When you have a mountain to climb you need rock climbers, not people who climb ladders."
Melanie Smart
Managing Director/Founder.
Following her father’s footsteps Melanie, trained in mechanical/production engineering, before moving into IT implementing enterprise business solutions (PDM/PLM/Cost Management). Since 1995 she has been on the board of various software vendors in both Operational and Business Development roles.
A Business system application specialist. She has worked extensively to improve business process improvement through enterprise IT solutions (PLM/PDM); across departmental boundaries and on a transnational basis. With broad experience across a range of industries from Aerospace and Defence to the Public Sector.
Award winning speaker and natural diplomat. Her communication and relationship building skills make her able to influence and achieve the respect of stakeholders at any level. Also working as speaking coach and mentor to directors and people in public office. (read more about her public speaking here).
Clients include: Royal Mail, British Aerospace, Lotus, Peugeot (PSA), Airbus, Cranfield University.
Melanie is an executive board member of the local Chamber of Commerce, President of Toastmasters International, Birmingham and also a passionate member of the board at Young Enterprise.
Dr Stuart Webb
Director, Customer Success. Business Transformation.
Stuart qualified as a medical Doctor; working in medical research before leaving medicine to embark on a career in business, specialising in business process improvement solutions and all aspects of change management.
As the regional head of the E-Business Practice of a major US Systems Integrator/Outsourcer, he achieved £3m revenue/24% growth in six month period, managing a pool of 120 consultants. His unique 'Lean-Agile' slant on business process capability, totally transformed their project management and ability to deliver.
As Deputy Director for Business Intelligence - he achieved remarkable success for sales and operations, achieving £28m cost reduction. Elsewhere he delivered a £150m cost saving programme. With Stuart less is always more, in one case he achieved 16 weeks work in a 12 week window and still delivered required outputs.
An excellent communicator with fresh innovative thinking, as Programme Director Stuart has delivered both cost saving and revenue growth driven projects where projects have stalled or requirements have become fuzzy.
'Dr Stu' also is a Six Sigma Black Belt -so he's not a man to mess about with!
John Drake
Business Process Analyst/ Business Transformation
Specialises in Financial, Purchasing and Loistics.
Customers include: Centrica (British Gas Group), Capita, HM Revenue & Customs & Honda
John helps our clients challenge current methodologies and push the envelope to embrace new techniques, whilst minimising disruption to day to day business operation. He does this by focusing on removing non value activities, introducing best practice Lean Six Sigma & TQM and above all, ensuring value flows through the business uninterrupted whilst improving system integration (eg SAP).
At HM Customs & Excise, John helped the Finance Department re-engineer existing customs declaration and payment process and at Centrica transformed the financial process (Financial Accounting, Financial Forecasting & Performance Management), improving group value, cutting delivery lead times and removing cost.
John is also a bit of a fish! -as an amateur swimmer, having competed at national & international levels.
Alan Pope
Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) Lead Consultant
Specialises in DFSS, Requirements Managment and the Cockpit.
Unusually Alan is a qualified Black belt in Design For Six Sigma (DFSS), most Six Sigma people specialise in DMAIC Six Sigma.
Alan joined us from the mighty Motorola where, as a member of Global Quality Operations, he successfully applied DFSS tools to multi-million dollar projects across the globe, to improve quality and customer satisfaction. He also drove the application of the leading edge concept, critical parameter management (CPM) to improve product quality within the organisation in Europe & China.
His capabilies aren't confined the the world of Six Sigma, his business acumen and astute people skills have enabled him to drive requirements management across functional boundaries, from Marketing to Product Planning.
If you work with us on the Cockpit, odds are that you will come across Alan's sublime skills as he is one of our lead project managers.
Alan is also sickeningly fit, in fact he's the company 'Marathon Man' and has completed a full marathon of 26 miles in 2 hours 49 mins -how?!
Marcus Eden-Ellis
Bids and Tender Management Specialist.
Marcus helps our clients maximise the prospect of winning a tender for both Private and Public Sector tenders and runs our popular Tender Skills Workshop. In the last five years he has been responsible for a thousand bids, valued at over £1.5 Billion.
Articulate, passionate and great fun to be with (despite his serious look here!) With over 25 years Sales and Commercial experience, working at senior and director levels for major European and US Corporates, Marcus has led many bid teams down the ‘Champagne Trail.
Dynamic and incredibly innovative; even in apparently identical competing companies, he still manages to pull the lucrative ‘rabbit out of the hat’.
His techniques have won major contracts with organisations as diverse as the NHS, Ministry of Defence, Marks & Spencers, the Environment Agency and Centrica.
Also a great storyteller, Marcus is the author of the children's book Charlie Watts and the Rip in Time
See also Paul Sheilds for complimentary skill sets
Paul Shields
Commercial, cost analysis/management specialist.
A comprehensive engineering background and astute commercial awareness make Paul one of Europe's outstanding Aerospace consultants.
Has been lead negotiator and contract signatory to multi-million dollar aerospace contracts and has constructed and negotiated $1m p.a. product support agreement and responsible for $7m cost reduction initiatives.
A highly effective communicator and orator, with strong analytical skills Paul also runs our popular Commercial Awareness training course.
His experience of Aerospace Cost Analysis and management is extensive and includes Parametric, Target and 'Bottom-up' cost AND price estimating; Paul has also developed a unique "Six-Pillars" approach to improvement/cost reduction.
Paul is currently also a guest lecturer at both Cranfield and Queens University.
-But watch out, whether working on a project or a workshop, Paul always has his dry sense of humour switched on!
Stephen Charlton
Business Visualiser
One of the challenges of any Business Process Improvement initiative, is winning the hearts and minds of the people within the company. When this impacts across the whole business and in different departments, it can easily become difficult for people to comprehend the bigger picture.
Stephen's strategic and creative experience helps our clients visualise their complex business issues, with the use of pictures. Moving from complexity to clarity is the secret to Stephen's success.
His gift for simplicity has helped clients such as Shell, GKN and Unilever to understand the ‘big picture’ of their business issues and communicate core values that are ‘lived’ throughout the company, resulting in an engaged and productive workforce.
Visualising the future is a rare talent that Stephen has in abundance, bringing his enthusiasm, creativity and energy to every project he undertakes. He also helps us avoid 'Death by Powerpoint' presentations!
Stephen is also a successful sculptor in bronze!
Fiona Campbell
Change Management Specialist. International NLP Master/Business Practitioner.
With a wealth of business experience working with Blue Chips in UK and Internationally, Fiona weaves her 'virtual magic' supporting our client's need for Change Management during their Business Improvemet iniatives, working directly with the people involved or affected by change eg, process acceptance, culture, staff, attitudes etc.
Unusually, Fiona is also one of the few people in the UK to have worked directly with Dr Richard Bandler (co-founder of NLP), she has also worked with TV's Paul McKenna.
Fiona's focus and drive to affect change is only surapssed by her sunny outgoing personality and infectious laugh (ie, she's bonkers but great to work with)
See also Nicola Turner for complimentary skill sets
Nicola Turner
Strategic HR Specialist.
A highly effective communicator, Nicola is our 'people wrapper'. She has extensive experience as an HR professional across a range of business sectors from IT and professional services, to Banking, Outsourcing and Publishing.
Nicola joined Adurasys from the Corporate law firm Eversheds LLP where she was responsible for their People Policies and Outsourcing Relationships.
Stimulated by challenge and creative solutions, Nicola is astute at assessing the impact of change on staff, often resolving a problem before it occurs; she possesses both the energy and skills to encourage the involvement of others.
Nicola also adds a wonderful 'people wrapping' to all of our consultancy solutions -to make sure they always work for your staff and provide you with fast effective results.
Bryan Woods
Expert in 'Japanese problem solving management and 'Lean' improvement techniques (Extreme Lean). Specialises in Deployment of 'Lean' philosophies and Quality Assurance.
An outstanding Automotive engineer, with extensive experience at Ford, Nissan, Lotus and numerous suppliers; and founder member of SMMT Industry Forum.
Bryan was the thirteenth employee of Nissan UK. He played a key role in plant start up and establishing the Nissan UK 'green fields' site, as Europe's most efficient car manufacturer. Whilst there he headed up European Supplier Quality Assurance for Nissan developed operating philosophy, structure, systems and facilities during the planning building commissioning phase of the UK plant in the 80's.
Bryan joined Adurasys from Lotus where amongst numerous achievements he set up the SQA function at Lotus from scratch, introduced a Kanban delivery system (reducing inventory from £6.5 to £3.8million) and procedures that improved supplier 'on-time' delivery to 99.8%, helping transform Lotus from virtual hand build to efficient mass production plant.
Today, Bryan is recognised as one of the best Lean Improvement Consultants in Europe and was a early member of the SMMT Quality and Reliability panel Strategy Group.