How to Effectively Ramp Fast
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence
While we are living in difficult times, eventually we will return to full capability, and the number one question from our customers will be: “How fast can I get my deliveries?” Being able to ramp in a safe and quick manner has several dimensions to it, and not understanding those and their interactions can lead to instability.
Read MoreCase Study: How effectively managing your supply chain can be all the difference
Equipping Your Team: 5 Steps to Leadership-Driven Employee Engagement
SOLUTION AREA: Leadership and Change Management
Whether we want to admit it or not, people are an organization’s most significant asset. The current world environment has made it even more difficult to retain talent, so finding ways to enhance job satisfaction and employee loyalty through employee engagement is critical.
Read MoreLeadership in Crisis: Lessons from a Childhood Survivor
SOLUTION AREA: Leadership & Change Management
Now is a difficult time for almost all businesses. Some are shuttered and experiencing the worst economic trauma imaginable. For others, the demand for their products might be soaring, but the health and well-being of their employees seems almost impossible to ensure. Each of these situations have employees, managers, and executives in places that they could not have imagined just a few months ago.
Read MoreDeveloping Client Learning Platform or Lean Six Sigma Blended Learning Program Delivers Results
CLIENT INDUSTRY: A&D
SOLUTION: Training, Operational Excellence
At the time of engagement, the client lacked a comprehensive training strategy around their continuous improvement (CI) activities and wanted a training solution that would create a common language and approach for their team. After reviewing many different approaches and solutions, CBS introduced a blended learning model to develop lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt practitioners across the client’s organization.
Read MoreHow to be effective – working remotely
SOLUTION AREA: Leadership and Change Management – Innovate
Working remotely is not new and, in fact, it has been around for nearly 40 years ; however, recently, many companies reversed this trend and brought workers back to the office, citing they would be more productive, innovative and agile. This healthy argument of whether employees are more productive working remotely or at the office still takes place today…
Read MoreThe most dangerous phrase in today’s manufacturing—“We Leaned it out.”
SOLUTION AREA:Operational Excellence
As many of us already know, Lean is a term that depicts broad concepts within world class operations developed by Toyota following WWII. Over the past two decades, I’ve often heard leaders from different industries describe their successes by stating something along the lines of: We’ve Leaned out our factories. It’s a phrase that seems benign, yet it’s one of the most dangerous phrases a leader can use. Why? What’s wrong with this phrase?
Read MoreManaging Manufacturing Operations Remotely
SOLUTION AREA: Change Management and Leadership
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every facet of our lives, particularly, our work lives. Keeping operations “up and running” is a concern for almost every business across the country. The pandemic has forced most businesses to determine which roles can be done remotely and which need to be done on-site. For manufacturing businesses, this results in tough questions…
Read MoreCBS Visual Management and Control System Enables Client to Manage Real Time
CLIENT INDUSTRY: Industrial Manufacturing
SOLUTION: Operational Excellence
A CBS client manufactures extremely complex and high tolerance product while operating in a very competitive market with high delivery demands from its customers. In this case, the company was under severe cost pressures as profitability and cash flow were not meeting corporate expectations. Additionally, their customers’ volumes were increasing, and they were not able to keep up.
Read MoreFinding the ‘Right’ Transformational Leader
SOLUTION AREA: Change Management and Leadership
Organizational success during significant change is dependent on several factors. Assigning the ‘right’ leader to drive that change is one of the most critical factors. Transformational leaders must have the ideal mix of competencies in leadership and business.
Read on to find out the key components that can help ensure successful change.
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