Leadership in Action: Driving Change Through Partnership
When a Tier-2 aerospace company with 14,000 employees across 62 locations faced mounting pressure on margins, cash flow, and growth — along with declining customer satisfaction — its leadership didn’t ignore the challenge. They took action. By engaging CBS Consulting, they showed the foresight to bring in a partner who could help accelerate improvement. Together, CBS and company […]
The Hidden Cost of Incomplete Engineering: Why “Clear to Build” Is Critical for Operational Excellence
Most operations leaders have felt it: that sinking moment when a production line grinds to a halt because one small component didn’t make it into the build plan. Suddenly, everything waits. Teams scramble. Deadlines slip. And you’re left asking, “How did we not catch this sooner?” This isn’t just about a missing fan blade or […]
The Private Equity Playbook for Operational Excellence
In private equity consulting, value creation has a clock on it. You don’t have ten years to build operational maturity. You’ve got maybe three. And in that window, you need to scale, stabilize, and often restructure, without losing control. That’s why operational excellence isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s a requirement. And it has to start […]
Is Your Supply Chain Optimization a Strategic Advantage — or a Liability?
Most organizations don’t realize how much value they’re losing through their supply chains, missing key opportunities in supply chain optimization and digital transformation to drive operational excellence. I’ve seen it time and again: inventory that looks healthy on paper, but in practice, it’s either stuck, stale, or scattered. Metrics that are being tracked religiously, but […]
Rethinking Collaboration: How Trust Transforms Supply Chains
“Collaboration” makes for a nice slide. Clean. Polished. Easy to nod along to in a boardroom. But the real thing? It’s raw. It’s messy. It’s uncomfortable as hell. Real collaboration happens in the hard moments — when someone on the floor speaks up, even if it’s not what the boss wants to hear. When a […]
The Industry 4.0 Revolution: Why It Matters and How to Stay Ahead
Industry 4.0 isn’t just a catchy term—it’s a fundamental shift in how businesses operate, innovate, and compete. But what exactly does it mean? Over my career, I’ve seen businesses wrestle with technological change, but this moment feels different. The combination of AI, automation, and hyper-connectivity is reshaping industries at a pace we’ve never seen before. […]
Due Diligence Process Identifies Incremental Costs
Competitive Business Solutions (CBS) was retained by one of its private equity partners to conduct operational due diligence of a commercial glass processor. This target was a part of a much larger conglomerate and was being split off or “carved out” to form a separate operating company. CBS focused its industry expertise on operational and IT diligence and ultimately helped develop the model for the stand-alone organization.