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Change Leadership: How to Be Effective
Within Competitive Business Solutions (CBS), we actively debate over the difference between “Change Leadership” and “Change Management”. This debate plays out in industry. In fact, I would go as far as to say that most executives practice Change Leadership but stop short of requiring or driving the necessary tactics of Change Management, thus leaving their […]
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Discipline Counts: Raising the Bar for Lead Time, Cost Savings and Throughout
A private equity client engaged the CBS team to significantly improve the operational performance of a recently acquired company, a family-owned business with a history as a quality leader in the industrial equipment market. CBS targeted production costs, lead time and capacity/throughput as areas of improvement—and implemented business disciplines to help ensure sustainable results.
Improving Productivity and Decreasing Costs
A labeling manufacturer lacked the capacity to meet its customers’ volume and mix requirements, resulting in costly additional shifts, selective outsourcing and loss of large client orders. CBS led a Kaizen event to analyze and improve the process, which reduced the average changeover by 60% and helped decrease the need for temporary workers and weekend shifts.