Articles
Read a selection of articles, published in a wide range of management magazines over the last five years illustrating the practical application and scope of our approach.
Note, a number of these articles were written prior to our rebranding as ‘The Structured Leadership Co’ under the JARA name.
General Management
Meggitt Sensing Systems’ President, Peter Huber, Meggitt Group’s Head of Engineering Transformation, Bernie Stevens and Jamil Rashid, talk about their long-term programme for cultural and management change and how it’s been working to deliver savings.
Recession is forcing organizations to manage better, as they strive to get more from the workforce. The key to success is adopting a more structured aprpoach.
Speeding up the delivery of strategy.
Sales & Marketing
When business leaders try to solve the issue of effective strategic deployment, they often feel that staff do not have the level of focus they would like. How do you tackle this?
Why best practice doesn’t do what it says on the tin and how a genuine understanding of problems is the key to solving them.
Delivering a simple message to senior executives at the Paris Air Show: Even with world class management systems, people are not focusing enough time on core wealth creating activities
How Structured Leadership can help businesses understand why projects fail.
Adopting a more process based approach in Sales and Marketing and keeping teams focused to get results.
Why managing day-to-day tasks better is key to improving sales performance.
New Product Development
Why the aerospace and defence industry needs to focus on core management skills if it wants to improve new product development performance.
Sonfarrel's CEO Frank Power, talks about growth and adopting Structured Leadership.
Why engineers in the aerospace and defence industry need to focus on core management skills to improve performance.
Meggitt's Mel Hildebrand discusses the need for structure and discipline for the successful delivery of strategy.
Production
Creating buy in through the involvement of people is critical to the success of Operational Excellence programmes. This Article discusses how to do it.
To make continuous improvement really stick, you will need to ensure full visibility of the goals and the results.
Case Study, S-Tec Corporation. Operations Director, Billy Gray discusses mentoring and career growth.
Supply Chain
Why supply chain change programmes could be the key to transforming how the aerospace and defence industry works.
Human Resources
Why spending time understanding the real behaviours that drive your business and helping leaders to develop other
leaders, are key to ensuring long term competitiveness.
Bringing structure and discipline to the negotiating process at Swiss-based aerospace manufacturer, VMSA.
Establishing measures that everyone can understand is the key to achieving consistent communication and,
ultimately, to making better decisions and driving up performance.