Organizational Performance Improvement

Our professionals are operational experts capable of assessing an organization’s entire operational landscape to identify areas for improvement. Further, our experts develop and implement plans and design solutions to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Using a variety of hands-on methods and tools, we solve problems, implement solutions, and provide accountable execution.

Business / Operational Assessment

Our comprehensive Business / Operations Assessment identifies the challenges that clients encounter throughout their operations. Once identified, our experts collaborate with our clients to develop new strategies that ensure success. We assess all aspects of business operations, from procurement to distribution, cash management, and sales, identifying tangible opportunities for improvement.

Operational Landscape Expertise

We deliver specialized expertise in assessing and improving an organization’s processes across the entire operational landscape. Our approach addresses the main functional areas of an organization’s operations, including:

• Acquisition Integration
• Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
• Commercial Real Estate
• Continuous Improvement
• Corporate Governance & Regulatory Compliance
• Cyber Security & Information Governance
• Enterprise Resource Planning & Metrics
• Environmental, Health & Safety
• Facility Management
• Financial Management & Reporting
• Intellectual Property
• Leadership & Strategic Planning
• Maintenance
• Product & Inventory Management
• Production
  • Planning & Capacity Management 
  • Production Flow
  • Execution & Control
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Resource Management
• Sales & Revenue Enhancement
• Supply Chain Assessment, Optimization, Innovation & Integrity
• Sustainability & ESG

The backbone of any operation relies on the optimization of its supply chain. Efficiency is essential for any business to meet customer demands, optimize costs, and maintain competitiveness.

Our experts understand every element of the supply chain and how to streamline the flow, minimize cost, optimize inventory, and help companies respond swiftly to changing market conditions and disruptions. Our experts leverage extensive experience serving in leadership roles in a variety of situations to directly improve critical links and optimize the flow of materials through every stage of the supply chain.

We tailor our approach to the needs of each business and the unique nature of its supply lines and distribution to customers. Proper supply chain management is not just a logistical necessity but a strategic asset for any successful business, its profitability, and its sustainability.

Some examples of our supply chain optimization services include:

• Supply Chain Assessment
• Supply Chain Innovation Advisory
• Vendor Assessment & Performance Improvement
• Address Global-constrained Commodities
• Distribution Cost Optimization
• In-sourcing / Out-sourcing Programs
• Material Standardization
• Business Intelligence & Analysis
• Transportation, Freight, Logistics, Parcel, Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
• Sustainability & ESG Advisory 
• Government Relations & Political Risk Advisory
• Compliance Assessment, Monitoring & Risk Mitigation

Our experts believe even the best operations need to continuously improve. Operational improvement is a common key to driving enterprise value and, at its core, is the shop floor. Efficient and effective production enables businesses to meet customer demands, adapt to changing market conditions, capitalize on opportunities, and optimize costs. 

Effective production management enhances operational transparency and agility, combining quantitative and qualitative elements to provide real-time insight into areas from scheduling to delivery.

Our experts drive continuous improvement on the shop floor by deploying tools and methods to quickly address waste elimination, streamline flow, implement new technologies, establish controls, and open communication across the operating system.

We deliver improved operations spanning the following areas, among others:

• Capacity Analysis
• Production Planning
• Streamlining Production Flow
• Production Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement
• Environmental, Health & Safety Improvement & Execution
• Visual Management & Execution
• Quality Management
• Metrics Development
• Developing Standard Work
• Set-up & Changeover Optimization
• Increased Utilization of Machinery, Labor & Materials
• Operational Organization Design
• 6S Lean Management Organization
• Six Sigma Process Improvement

In today’s competitive marketplace, sustainable profit can be hard to achieve, resulting in a need to improve business operations in areas such as expense containment, product development, and margin enhancement.

With decades of experience in a wide variety of industries, our experts have built an arsenal of skills and knowledge that bring new, innovative perspectives to client operations. We assess every operational factor contributing to or detracting from profitability and identify opportunities to improve performance.

Our profit improvement process is unique to each client’s situation. It can be broad-based, touching all areas that impact profitability or narrowly focused on a specific area or initiative where profitability has been elusive or has meaningful opportunity for improvement.

Our experts advise organizations of all sizes to enhance revenue generation. We help clients increase revenue by providing tailored guidance for their circumstances regarding pivoting/expanding on existing product lines, innovative pricing strategies, improving or increasing marketing initiatives, new market expansion opportunities, enhanced customer retention, and other approaches. We leverage advanced data analytics to help clients achieve short-term revenue improvement and to develop internal processes for sustainable success. We help organizations align, tune, and expand to drive increased revenue.

Sales Assessment

Our experts deploy proven methodologies, working closely with management teams to objectively assess the key drivers of sales productivity.

Sales Impact Plan

We develop a bespoke sales plan that provides organizations with exactly they need to grow sales. We address an array of areas, including organizational structure, compensation design, sales process, performance tracking, and market approach, among others.

Leadership

We offer interim and/or fractional leadership to execute and manage our recommendations. We help clients immediately execute sales improvements while building out permanent teams.