There are two kinds of organisations in the 21st century: the ones adapting and learning, and the ones that are already dead (although maybe no one has told them yet!).

Thriving companies have figured out how to successfully embed innovation and continuous improvement into their culture’s DNA. Is your company willing to join?

Imagine a work environment where all employees within an organisation tackle complex challenges together, collaborating across different disciplines and heading for organisational excellence.

This is Improvement21, supporting your company to move into the 21st century Agile culture, by learning how to improve and grow, ourselves, our teams, our culture, processes and products – together.

Let’s imagine a work ecosystem, where we drop meaningless jobs, restraining conditions or soulless environments. By learning to improve any aspect in our lives, we at Improvement21 support you to redefine not only the way we work, but also the way we live.

Much like a karate ‘kata’ (the detailed patterns of movements used in martial arts) we introduce improvement by creating ‘easy to do’ practices which steadily catalyse change both in your life and in your organisation.

We created Improvement21 to support our customers by successfully and effectively driving personal and organisational change.
As established consultants with many years of experience in coaching and supporting enterprises, we have seen a lot of frustration among the employees of organisations, where corporate change programs were introduced following a top-down strategy, which frequently lead to failed or partial adoption of new ways of working…

We believe that the key to success of enterprise transformation is the involvement of each and every employee, energised and motivated, in order to lead the change program as a joined venture.

Let’s take an example out of our daily life: when modifying any personal habits, like losing weight or quitting smoking, a holistic change of mindset is required, in order to adopt daily practices which, drive to a healthier lifestyle. Similarly, when companies decide to change their ways of working, what we need is a holistic transformation, that is, engaging and involving the complete organisation, and not only some parts of it. It is about the complete system, rather than the treatment of parts, always acknowledging each individual employee and recognising their daily interactions.

When we talk about continuous business improvement, we talk about a mindset: never forget that people’s beliefs and how they interact with each other, are the critical factors for success.

Improvement21 will support you with simple techniques to inspire and engage people in daily improvement practices, both for themselves and for their peers, nurturing the Agile mindset required for your enterprise to successfully deploy an Agile transformation.

Whether your goal is to become more of an Agile organisation, or your aim is to create a Lean culture, or maybe you are looking for a customer-focused strategy, or you simply want to improve the employee’s wellbeing at work, Improvement21 is here to help you.

How many times have you been to a seminar that ignited you to change something and, a month later… nothing happened?

It’s commonly believed that you need 21 days of practice in order to create a habit. Whether this is true or not, we do believe that, in order to create a continuous improvement culture, improvement as such has to become a mindset.

Our goal is to support you in your transformation journey and to provide the materials, tools and encouragement you need to develop the improvement habit.

Besides, the number 21 points out the mindset transformation required for the 21^st century industry to strive for performance excellence: moving from dehumanised factories and ‘command and control’ structures towards organisations populated by knowledge workers grouped in high performance teams, is the challenge we are willing to take.

Last but not least, 21 + 21 = 42!