Our Partners
Catalyst Consulting is a UK-based operational excellence consultancy with over 30 years’ experience, working across sectors to help business leaders, change leaders, and improvement practitioners build capability and deliver lasting results. Catalyst holds partnerships with several certification bodies, and is the British Quality Foundation’s official Lean Six Sigma and Agile training partner. Catalyst is also co-author of the Lean Six Sigma for Dummies book series.
As technology and AI reshape industries and customer expectations continue to evolve, Catalyst helps organisations build the culture, capability, and processes needed to stay clear, move fast, and thrive with confidence, combining consulting, coaching, and training with AI-powered tools and data-driven decision support. This includes CatStat, an AI-powered tool Catalyst has developed for process analysis and improvement.
Further information: catalystconsulting.co.uk
A national retail chain we work with now opens new stores at twice the rate. Same core team, nobody hired. What changed first was that everybody could see how a store opening ran. Their slide decks and documents became maps that showed the bottlenecks and where cost was leaking.
Ask five people how a process works and you get five answers, all sincere and none complete. Improvement programmes go ahead on that basis, and they deliver something. Then the person who held it in their head leaves, a restructure lands, and the work drifts back.
Cocoon Technology is a UK business improvement consultancy and a partner of BusinessOptix, the process modelling platform we build in. The people we work with run operations, transformation and continuous improvement in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, business process outsourcing and hospitality. We start by building a digital twin, a working model of how your operation actually runs. At the retail chain we used AI discovery, software that reads your existing documents and drafts the maps.
The model is what stays, we redesign against it and test the changes as scenarios before you commit budget. Then we stay through rollout and training, and measure what changed. At an automotive components manufacturer, that came to 35% off production cycle time, 47% fewer defects and £1.8m savings realised in the first year. An AI agent that starts working inside your business takes its instructions from the same model.
Automate a process you have not improved and you get the same waste, faster.
The world’s leading improvement qualifications and community.
The Lean Competency System (LCS) provides a global improvement community that empowers organisations and individuals with qualifications that inspire excellence and measurable success. It offers a recognised framework for building improvement capability across organisations, providing a structured, principle-based approach for accrediting your Continuous Improvement (CI) programmes.
What the LCS Offers
- Accreditation of your internal or external improvement programme.
- Membership options for organisations and partners
- A qualifications framework with seven levels of competency.
- A structure around which an improvement training system or programme can be developed in order to improve skills and foster the creation of an improvement culture.
- Development for employees giving a clear pathway for the development of their improvement learning and their professional development.
- A Community for collaboration, networking and peer-to peer learning.
Q5 is an award-winning global consulting firm focused on organisational performance. We partner with over 150 clients each year, across all sectors and geographies, combining global expertise, proven tools and real-world experience in organisational transformation and performance. We don’t just talk about the future, we help leaders design it. We work across all sectors and corners of the globe to help organisations identify and unlock strategic value, create future fit organisations, build high performance talent and culture and shape and drive complex transformation.
Sideways 6 is an Interact Software company and exists to build better businesses through employee ideas. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere, and that giving employees a voice is the secret to business success.