One step ahead, always!


Strategic and organisational consultancy in companies, experiential training
and leadership coaching.

CONTINUOUS EVOLUTION


In today's international and digital environment, often characterised by the words Speed, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity and summarised in the acronym VUCA, companies are increasingly feeling the pressure of competitors and friction in their organisation. The watchwords are Continuous Innovation, i.e. developing the ability to continuously adapt products, processes and the organisation to new circumstances.

Continuous innovation starts with continuously listening to customers and new markets and translating these demands into new products and services. This requires the organisation and leadership to behave like a start-up, adopting a more fluid organisational structure, often based on multidisciplinary teams, which allows this continuous adaptation. Finally, it requires the pursuit of operational excellence, or rather the continuous discovery of waste and defects in its processes and the ability to resolve them quickly or, better still, prevent them.

CATALYST FOR INNOVATION


Spark innovation catalysts is a company of Italian consultancy and worldwide presence. Some people call us consultants, but we want to be recognised as catalysts for innovation.

We provide in-house strategic and organisational consulting, experiential training and leadership coaching. We have agile and lean in our DNA and base our work on their principles and values. We accelerate the development of people and the innovation of products and processes to bring companies one step ahead at all times.


CONTENTS


SPARK writes or contributes to various content, blogs, videos, articles, books on topics related to continuous innovation in general and Lean, Agile, 6 Sigma, Strategy and Innovation, Organisation and Leadership and Operational Excellence specifically.

10 October 2021

Agile organisations: efficient with a laser-like focus on customer value

Lean and Agile: a successful combination, starting from Toyota and in particular from the person who introduced the Agile methodology in the famous Japanese company: Nigel Thurlow. Nigel began his career at Toyota Motor Europe in 2005 and after moving to the United States in 2011 he [...]
23 March 2021

From Lean to Lean 'plus': how Agile principles help extend the concept of flow to cope with constant change.

Henry Ford developed the first assembly line in 1913 in Highland Park, Michigan. At the time, the concept was revolutionary and the word Flow was introduced for the first time, one of the guiding principles of today's Lean and Agile approach. In 1948, when Toyota began [...]
3 October 2020

Agility is an emerging attitude! Take care of these 4 aspects to improve the agility of your company!

Nigel's experience, which brings together the best of Toyota's culture with the agile mindset, shows how adopting Scrum - a framework that allows agile principles to be put into practice simply and effectively on individual teams - does not always and does not necessarily have the effect of triggering a [...]