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In a roundtable discussion, Meggitt Sensing Systems’ president, Peter Huber,
Meggitt Group’s engineering transformation director, Bernie Stevens and Jamil
Rashid, managing director of management consultancy JARA, talk to Mike
Richardson about Meggitt Sensing Systems’ long-term programme for cultural and
management change and how it’s been working to deliver savings.
F
ive years ago, Meggitt Sensing projects have realised $20 million of milestone adherence for our customers,
Systems (MSS) was focused on savings and organic growth of $30m. and in HR, it’s helped us to understand
tools and techniques like Lean Q: How significant has the and improve employee retention rates.
and Six Sigma as the route to business deployment of the Structured It’s now being applied in business
improvement. However, management Leadership management approach units throughout Europe and the US,
and leadership behaviours were actually been within MSS? so represents a huge commitment in
hindering progress. Peter Huber: “Well, the figures speak management time and focus.
Following work with one of the for themselves, but I think it’s also “Above all, it’s central to our goal of
divisional businesses, management important to highlight that this approach creating a common way of working –
consultancy JARA was brought in has been widely deployed throughout how we lead and manage people and how
to undertake a review across MSS. MSS in several areas of the business, not we control their day-to-day work so that
It embarked on a project to bring in just manufacturing. In sales, for example, they really understand how and why what
Structured Leadership, a new culture and it’s helped teams become more focused they do impacts on the business as a
philosophy that focuses not on tools and on profitable, sustainable sales. In whole, financially and strategically. They
techniques, but on managing and leading engineering, we’ve reduced development can then make the changes that will
people. Since then, over 60 improvement costs at the same time as driving better make a sustainable difference.”
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