Whether you are a five person firm or a five hundred person company, chances are you spend most of your day working on daily tasks, solving problems, and fighting fires. What you probably don’t get to spend enough time working on is the business itself. How to position your business for growth. Identifying where you are losing money from rework and inefficient processes. Making your employees jobs easier to free them up to be more innovative.
We help business owners and executives evaluate their businesses, determine how they want their company to operate, and develop a plan to achieve that vision. Then we coach them and their team through that process, train them on the necessary tools, and measure and celebrate their success.
Here are some examples of what our clients have achieved:
Metal Fabricator: Streamlined a fabrication process to improve customer deliveries. By involving the scheduling deparment, shop employees, and sourcing, the resulting process reduced work-in-process by $197,000 per day and met customer deliveries 98% of the time.
Motor Manufacturer: Analyzed failed armatures and data with engineering and manufacturing to reduce in-house testing failures on those armatures from 25% to 4%.
Design and Engineering Company: Developed and facilitated a process to help the company’s executive team align its continuous improvement efforts with the business strategy.
Accounting and Auditing Firm: Every two years, we train and certify the firm’s new internal auditors as Six Sigma Yellow Belts.
Building and Construction: Developed a long term operational transformation plan for this manufacturer and builder. Reduced the cycle time to produce the components by 20%. Reduced quality defects by 50% by establishing intraprocess checks. Coached the plant manager on more effective project management skills.
Gas and Oil: This global company trained its high-potental employees in project management and risk analysis.
