Make rapid improvements through focused Team based events that maximize Employee Engagement
Establish your Vision, Mission, Values, Strategic Goals, and Objectives. Crystallize and execute action plans using Hoshin Kanri methodology.
Create World-Class Supply Chains by transforming processes across your Value Chain
Make rapid improvements through focused Team based events that maximize Employee Engagement
Grow your Business profitably by transforming your Sales and Marketing Processes
Create a long-lasting Continuous Improvement Culture by institutionalizing Lean and Six Sigma thinking
Nothing changes till Behavior changes. Transform employee Mindsets & Behaviours through our Boot Camps and one on one Coaching
Build a Culture of Zero Incidents, Injuries and illnesses by implementing World Class practices
Simplify Complex Office processes to improve Productivity, reduce Costs and improve Customer Service Level
Get the benefits of real-time information to reduce waste and costs even faster
Become an expert in Lean Six Sigma and other topics with our Accredited Courses
Factory Transformation
We utilize our deep knowledge and expertise to uncover underlying issues of subpar performance. Our rigorous Diagnostic Workshops involve Data Collection, Analysis, Shop floor studies, and One on One interactions with Management, Staff, and Shop floor personnel. We also study your people-related processes and management systems including Supplier and Customer management. Inferences are made about the needs and expectations of your Customers. We use this deep understanding of your processes, personnel, and management systems to propose an improvement roadmap that has at its core the implementation of our proprietary Change Management Model. A series of workshops are then conducted to implement the roadmap. The workshops focus on building Leadership capability to drive change and building competency at all levels of the organization. Rapid Value Accelerator events are used to solve specific problems following a Team-Based approach. A performance management system using Tier reviews is set up to track and improve performance. Governance Systems are deployed to oversee the implementation of the roadmap. As the workshops proceed, the confidence of the team to drive initiatives on their own goes up leading to the organization being able to sustain and further improve performance.
Value Accelerator Bootcamps
Use Value Accelerator (VA) Events to implement specific improvement initiatives rapidly over a very short time frame (1 to 5 days depending on the scope of the event). Each event involves a 4 – 5 member team devoting 100% of their time to resolving a problem identified in the roadmap. Each event starts with a pre-VA event phase which includes Project Scoping, Team Formation, Data collection, etc. Abraham Lincoln once said ”Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the “axe”. The same degree of diligent planning is required to prepare for a VA event to ensure its success of the event. During the actual VA event, the team reviews the project charter and collected data, visits the Shop floor to understand the problem in detail, and then Brainstorms solutions for each issue and develops Countermeasures. The team then goes about making real changes based on the solutions proposed and testing their effectiveness. Standard Work and Control plans are developed once the results are achieved. The sustainability of results is monitored over a 3 month period and the process is handed over to Operations once all activities are completed. The principles of Kaizen, Lean, and Six Sigma are deployed throughout the VA event cycle. VA events empower personnel to solve problems, energize teams on a challenging problem and lead to dramatic improvement of results in a short time frame.
Strategic Planning & Deployment
We can help you develop the Vision, Mission, and Values of your Organization. Thereafter by conducting a SWOT analysis, PEST Analysis, and Organizational Capacity Assessment and reflecting on past performance and upcoming challenges, we can work together to define your Strategic Goals. We use the Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment) process to identify Improvement Strategies and resources/teams to implement prioritized initiatives. Drive improvement initiatives using Value Accelerator events and track the progress of initiatives in an Obeya Room (Large Room). This exercise is performed every year with a reflection/review (Hansei) of prior year performance and implementation effectiveness. Following such an approach helps embed the strategic plan at all levels of your organization enabling seamless deployment while building buy-in, excitement, and engagement.
Supply Chain Transformation
Create efficient Supply Chains that are Customer Centric and help position your organization for faster Business growth. Our SC transformation efforts focus on enhancing value for the customer. The starting point is an understanding of the pain points you are currently facing. This is followed by a Supply Chain deep dive that looks at all elements of your extended Value Stream (Suppliers to Customers). Based on the deep dive, we identify improvement opportunities to shorten lead times, optimize inventories, eliminate bottlenecks, improve OTIF (On Time In Full) performance, improve forecasting methods and accuracies, enhance scheduling methods, reduce Supply Chain complexity through Product Line Management, optimize restock methods, optimize Order to Cash cycles, implement Lean Sourcing and Strategic Sourcing. We also look at opportunities for automation. These efforts help create a flexible and nimble Supply Chain that is well positioned for faster Business growth.
Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Organizations struggle to achieve great results due to silo-based functioning. Everyone is busy sub-optimizing their own performance or that of their functions often at the cost of overall company performance. IBP focuses the organization on working towards one Financial number or goal. Enhance your Profits and Cash Flows by implementing advanced Sales & Operational Planning processes (IBP). Link your strategic plans with your S&OP process while also integrating Financial plans. Integrating the plan across functions ensures everyone in the organization is focused on One Plan and number as Target each month. It enhances the visibility of performance across functions, links Tactics and Activities to your Strategic plan, maximizes collaboration across functions and reduces costs while optimizing inventory and delivery performance leading to delighted stakeholders and customers. The process also enhances Supplier collaboration and facilitates scenario analysis based on changes in market demand.
Sales & Marketing Best Practice Implementation​
Are you struggling to grow your business? Has Business growth plateaued? Work with us to create a thriving business that grows at double digits. We work hand in hand with our clients to analyze your business and provide you best in Class Sales and Marketing and other tools to deep dive, uncover issues and develop and implement plans to enhance value and business growth. You will learn processes and methods that will help you make a push for growth. Implementation involves the development of a roadmap that is implemented using a series of workshops.
Cultural Transformation
An organization’s culture is the way people behave within the organization. In other words, it is group behaviour. The company’s Values, shared beliefs, expectations and practices set its culture. What do you think about the culture within your organization? Are you slow to react to external or internal changes? Are you too slow to react to problems or make decisions? Do problems recur? Does your organizational structure act as a barrier to communication effectiveness, problem solving and effectiveness in executing your strategic plans? Work with us to conduct an analysis of the current culture and the barriers that it creates. Build and maintain a proactive culture that facilitates problem-solving and converts your organization into a federation of problem solvers. Get employees to follow company values that guide you towards your Vision. We help coach top management in guiding the organization towards the achievement of its strategic goals by getting them to practice felt leadership practices. By ensuring that culture is woven into the Annual Strategic planning process, we ensure that goals are achieved by following the desired behaviours.
Mindset & Behaviour Transformation
Mindsets drive Behaviours. Unless Behaviours change, nothing changes and unless there is a change in mindsets, behaviour changes will be superficial and do not last. Therefore it is necessary to uncover the underlying mindsets of personnel in your organization and address those that are holding back organizational progress. Our Mindsets and Behaviour Bootcamp helps people peer into their subconscious mind and the thoughts that it generates. Using the Iceberg model, people identify limiting behaviours that hold them back and the organization. We also conduct deep structure interviews with individuals to help them unravel underlying mindsets. Thereafter we help them work towards altering these mindsets by making them understand the rationale behind the need for behavioural change. Employees create habits that create sustainable behaviours which are essential for their teams to achieve their own as well as organizational goals.
Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Systems Implementation
SHE incidents cause pain and trauma to the affected individual and their families. It can also cause massive damage to the environment and the community apart from damage to equipments, investments and the long-term reputation and even existence of the company. Work with us to implement World Class SHE practices that save lives and protects your valuable assets. We have hands-on experience implementing best practices across the industry. Our methods focus on all aspects of SHE (Behaviour Based Safety, Administrative Controls and Design Controls). Enhance Operating discipline, mitigate risks and achieve the goal of zero incidents and injuries. People love to work in a safe workplace. Consequently, employee Morale goes up and the performance of the company improves in all spheres. Create a Culture of Safety first which engages employees at all levels in improving SHE practices and performance.
Lean Office
Offices have processes too and processes have Non-Value Added activities or Wastes that increase Costs and cause delays. Lean Office applies elements and principles of Lean like Daily Work management to eliminate or reduce such wastes. You can use these methods to reduce lead time for quotes requested by customers, reduce hiring time for vacancies, handle customer queries faster, optimize MIS reports, reduce and eliminate data entry errors and pricing errors, reduce paperwork, reduce the inventory of office supplies, stationery and promotional material, reduce waiting time/delays in processes (e.g. approvals) or improve office layout for enhanced efficiency. Track performance of Key Office processes using Dashboards. Implement Office Value Stream Management processes and Detailed process mapping to identify bottlenecks and Non-Value added activities. Conduct Value Accelerator events to eliminate or minimize the impact of these issues. Improvements enhance flow and reduces the lead time. Standardize these processes and audit for compliance and improvement. Level out the workload amongst the team members. Implement Office 5S to enhance efficiency (e.g. retrieve hard and soft copy files and documentation with ease), enhance Safety, Productivity, Cost and Morale in the Office.
Industry 4.0 integrated Lean Transformation
With the advent of Industry 4.0, there are tremendous opportunities to integrate Industry 4.0 technologies into a Lean Transformation effort and gain the benefits of the synergies they provide. Industry 4.0 technologies and communication systems help accelerate waste identification and elimination, reduction in Lead time, visualization of Work Instructions and Specifications. Alternative design models and cell design can be created with simulations as part of Lean Plant Design efforts. Changeover time can be further reduced, safety can be improved, rejects can be reduced by employing Vision systems and Poka Yoke methods can be enhanced. TPM implementation can be taken to another level by monitoring Vibration, temperature and noise levels while Augmented reality can be used to guide the maintenance technicians during maintenance activities. Inventories can also be reduced by having real-time information.
Accredited Training & Certification Programs
Master Lean and Six Sigma principles and methodologies with our accredited training courses. Our Courses are accredited by the Council for Six Sigma Certification. We provide accredited certificates to those who pass each course and meet certification requirements approved by the Council. Organizations seek management professionals who are experts at problem-solving and seek to grow such personnel as part of succession planning. Our courses ready you for such opportunities. Complete the requirements, enhance your competency and increase your value to your organization by attending our courses in a Virtual or Face to Face environment. Our trainers are Master Black Belts who have trained and certified hundreds of Lean Six Sigma professionals in all types of industries. We offer Yellow, Green, Black, Master Black Belt and Champion training as well as several levels of Lean training all the way to Lean expert and Lean Coach.