Transform, one step at a time
You dream of a successful business with fewer problems and fewer fires to put out. We will work with you to transform your business to perform better and outpace the competition.
The stages of your transformation
Strategy
Strategy
Your strategy challenges
Your strategy challenges
- Our results are not constant
- Employees lack leadership
- Our operations fail to keep up with demand
- We don’t have the money to optimize things
- We don’t have time to improve, priority is to deliver our orders
- Cash flow management is difficult, constantly juggling which bills to pay
- Our suppliers ask us to pay them in advance because we have paid late several times in the past
- Profitability is between 5 and 10%
Towards your transformation
Towards your transformation
- Strategic planning
- Vision-mission-values
- Strategic targets
- Strategic and operational budget
- Executive coaching (leadership, discipline, confidence, how to delegate, work on and not in the business, have the right team, how to become a good manager)
Implementation
Implementation
Your implementation challenges
Your implementation challenges
- We have quality issues
- We have difficulty finding qualified workers
- Employees complain
- Problems with employees are tolerated
- Our customers are unhappy, we often deliver late
- Everything is always urgent and at the last minute
- We have problems with our suppliers
- We plan a day in advance, anyway everything changes all the time
- Our projects are late and cost more than expected
Towards your transformation
Towards your transformation
- Diagnosis
- Leadership and skills in management and leadership
- Operational objectives
- Strong HR structure
- Budget by sector
- Cost price
Monitoring
Monitoring
Your monitoring challenges
Your monitoring challenges
- We are not aware of what is going on, communication is not ideal
- We have a lot of corridor conversations
- My boss is very busy and has no time for me
- We measure the profit only at the end of the year, that’s what’s important
- We know what we’re doing and when it’s going well or not, we’ve been doing this for a long time, we know our business so it’s not worth measuring things, and anyway we don’t have time
- Problems come back even if we had solved them previously
Towards your transformation
Towards your transformation
- Measure progress
- Dashboard
- Communication structure
Towards your transformation
Towards your transformation
- Measure progress
- Dashboard
- Communication structure
- Talk to your customers and talk about customers in communication meetings (the biggest companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix have grown because they listened and responded to customer requests)
Improvement
Improvement
Your improvement challenges
Your improvement challenges
- Everything goes through me, my team is not able to take a decision
- We wait until the equipment breaks before repairing it, it costs too much to maintain it
- We have arranged the place over the years, the flow is not ideal but that’s how it is
- Everything is always urgent and at the last minute
- Things are done differently depending on who does it
- It’s always somebody’s fault
- We don’t have time or money for training
- We don’t know what we have in stock
- We are always looking for equipment and we often end up reordering some
Towards your transformation
Towards your transformation
- Culture of continuous improvement
- Process optimization
- Standardization
- Equipment optimization
- Site optimization
- Plant layout and reorganization
- Inventory optimization
- Quality control system
Procurement
Procurement
Your strategic supplier management challenges
Your procurement challenges
- We buy in China because it’s cheaper
- We are stuck with our suppliers
- Our suppliers often deliver late but nothing can be done
- Our suppliers products are often of poor quality, we often have to rework their mistakes and that puts us behind
- We just have one supplier for this component
Towards your transformation
Towards your transformation
- Strategic supplier management
- Cost reduction
- Local purchasing