Sellafield Ltd Impact Award

The Impact

No other enabling function at Sellafield Ltd has such a focus on Business Improvements and that is down to the work the Central Business Improvements team has completed in collaboration with GBS over the last 12 months; using the LCS approach to successfully build capability and create the culture. By building capability and creating this culture of Business Improvements, GBS have ensured that they maximise value across the whole organisation; working together with other areas of the business proactively.

Through the 1a and 1b, GBS employees have developed the skills, values, behaviours and culture that will drive performance. The GBS teams have focused on process optimisation and identification of waste, ensuring they perform collaboratively and effectively.

They now have a defined vision and mission which feeds down into design principles with clear links to the Manifesto.

Error rates have reduced; productivity has increased; Team Leaders are no longer spending half their days dealing with problems raised to them and the introduction of SQCDP has brought multiple benefits across all teams.

130 GBS employees have attended the 1a and 10 employees have completed their 1b modules. 2 out of the 10 1b’s have been certified as Level 1b Business Improvement Practitioners in line with the Lean Competency system. It is expected the other 8 will be signed off in June 2022. This is impressive as the first 1b module was in November 2021, giving an overall time of between 7 to 8 months from start to completion.

All 1b’s have a project to work on which is specific to GBS and this approach has enabled each workbook to be completed in an average of 4 to 5 weeks in between modules and each project has brought immediate benefits to different areas of GBS.