About CLIP and CLIP Benefits

The results generated by CLIP in the UK since 2002 are remarkable, with savings of at least £45,000,000, being the immediate impact on the businesses worked with – second order effects with improved business for clients, for example, and year on year benefits have not been estimated and are likely to be much greater.

Industry enthusiasm for CLIP is strong and growing.  To date over 150 in-depth tailored company improvement activities have been completed, and 30 are currently underway.  Nearly 800 companies have taken action as a result of CLIP, ranging in size from smaller than 10 people to over 1000 employees and £500m turnover.

CLIP works across the whole range of construction: housing, retail, commercial, infrastructure, civil engineering and industrial, and on both new build and maintenance/refurbishment, and in both private and public sectors.

CLIP companies are now ahead of the competition, win more work and are more profitable. The knowledge and expertise your staff gain in the use of lean tools and techniques can be easily replicated on other projects.

CLIP has helped construction businesses improve quality (typical defect rates reduced by 65%), reduce costs (up to 40% better productivity), and achieve shorter programmes (lead times reduced by up to 50%).

CLIP customers have reported improvements in:

Specific examples include:
  • Productivity
  • Profits
  • Turnover
  • Lead times
  • Cycle times
  • Floor space utilisation
  • Value added per person
  • Client satisfaction
  • Staff satisfaction
  • Reduction in snags
  • Improved information management
  • Improved materials planning, management & control
  • Team dynamics
  • Partnering
  • Skills transfer within the industry
  • Helped a regional contractor grow from £250m to £350m
  • 15% productivity improvement on a company’s £100m labour bill
  • One company achieved annual savings of £220k in an activity of £785k total cost
  • Improved customer satisfaction results for several projects – e.g. 60% increased to >80%
  • Productivity increased from 70 to 120 units/week for one window manufacturer, with no increases in fixed costs
  • Social housing refurbishment times halved in a 5000 property project, leading to 93% tenant satisfaction
  • Pre-construction lead time halved on a new-build school project
  • 20 % programme time reduction, day-care nursery new build

Why CLIP is unique

CLIP’s foundations are built on the principles of lean.  This means that the CLIP philosophy is to remove waste from processes and to create a streamlined flow of value to the end customer.  It is the application of this philosophy that is part of the unique nature of CLIP.

CLIP believes that you don’t have to be taught in depth lean philosophy before you can start making improvements.  CLIP is about making real, practical improvements at the workface – whether that is a site, office or factory.  Organisations using CLIP can expect to see tangible improvements after 2 or 3 days of the workshop activities.

To do this, CLIP employs a ‘learning by doing’ approach.  This means that members of the organisation’s team are taught the skills they need to make improvements through a facilitated series of workshops where they are actually making improvements to their processes using the CLIP tools.  This approach requires the CLIP activities to happen at the workplace – not in a classroom.  Using the CLIP tools in practice with your team also enables them to be personalised to suit your organisation and the way your team likes to work – so they are more likely to succeed for you.

The aim of CLIP is to leave your teams with the knowledge of lean philosophy behind the CLIP tools and also with the practical skills to continue making improvements to their activities.

 

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