An electronics/defense organization located in Camden, NJ, was struggling to meet increasing customer demand. The client was the sole source for a critical classified component, and pressure to increase production throughput caused leaders to contact Competitive Business Solutions (CBS) to help solve the issue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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