CBS Consulting worked with a private equity client to greatly improve their operational performance for a recently acquired company. The company was previously family-owned and a quality leader in their industrial equipment market. After our initial assessment, we targeted production costs, production lead time, and capacity/throughput. Additionally, the company lacked several basic business disciplines, like:…
SOLUTION AREA: Leadership and Change Management
In 2018, workplace turnover reached an all-time high. According to a published report by Compdata, turnover hit 19.3%, with a 22.9% increase since 2014. The report indicated a variety of reasons why employees had left their workplaces, with some of the most common issues being “unsupportive managers,” “a lack of training and development” and “decreased opportunities for advancement.”
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence
In many ways, the aerospace industry is its own animal—with improvement challenges that can be deeper, broader and more difficult to resolve when compared to other manufacturing environments. Aerospace executives who seek to increase output, speed time to market and improve the bottom line with Lean and Six Sigma techniques must keep three important truths in mind and implement an improvement strategy that reflects them.
SOLUTION AREA: Program and Project Management
If failure is the best teacher, most leaders attempting Lean transformation have earned PhDs. Successful, sustainable change begins by identifying and prioritizing grass-roots issues that truly drive improvements across your organization.
Four core “must-do” principles are essential to assure long-term success. For executives who want to create a real-world competitive advantage for their businesses, these indispensable ingredients will help you leap barriers to create successful, sustainable turnarounds to Lean transformation.
SOLUTION AREA: Acquisitions and Integrations Recently I read an article written by Jack Prouty titled, “ Do No Harm!…Really? ” In this article Jack talks about the negative effects that can happen to the value of the deal by taking this approach. I am in support of Jack’s thesis as it has been our experience…
SOLUTION AREA: Leadership and Change Management
How often have you seen a completed value stream map with clearly defined projects and a defined Action Plan – yet, momentum is soon lost and the team regresses back to business as usual?
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