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      | ExpertiseOur structure allows us to minimise our overhead burden and to provide you specific consultants with relevant sectoral and operational expertise at a competitive rate. We want to work with your businesses to grow your sales and profitability by driving culture change and by transferring our knowledge, help to develop your people. Our approach is to understand then satisfy your business requirements by developing the right programme of activities drawing on the appropriate expert consultant from our talented team. Click on the chart for more details  Six SigmaSix Sigma simply means a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. Six Sigma is a disciplined, statistical analysis, and methodology for eliminating defects (driving towards six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process - from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service. Our Master Black Belts can work with you to develop your people so they can bring variable un-predictable processes under control. By taking out the variability they can deliver Productivity Improvements; Stock and Space Reduction; Faster Throughput Lead times, better on time delivery and reduced customer complaints. Inspiring your people to quickly identify opportunities to improve processes that were previously hidden. LeanThe practical application of Lean thinking has the power to significantly improve productivity in both manufacturing and administrative areas. Our experience shows that within weeks lead time can be improved by up to 50 %, labour productivity improved by up to 25 % and greater sales output can be generated through a smaller floor space area without increasing headcount pro-rata. Our lean thinking experts would work with your staff in small teams to challenge current practices, identify value-added activities, eliminate waste in all its forms and develop new ways of working that realign the internal company processes to better serve your customers and improve your profitability. Quality Management SystemsQuality Management Systems are essential to any business wishing to grow and improve. They add structure and value to any business thereby improving both repeatability and reproducibility. So if you wish to grow, sell, franchise or improve your business you need to implement a Quality Management System. We have implemented hundreds of Quality Management Systems across a wide range of businesses in all sectors; all of these have achieved certification to ISO 9001 without a single Corrective Action. We are also able to assess your organization using the EFQM Excellence Model; this will allow our qualified assessors to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in your organisation and thereby help you to move your organisation towards the Excellence Benchmark. Coaching/MentoringOur coaching and mentoring professionals will allow you the option of co-opting a highly experienced and big hitting professional to help with insight and heavy weight decision making to your management team. We can help to:
NetworkingNetworking is not new, the Phoenicians, Egyptians and Romans were all skilled in the art of Networking. The onslaught of commercial television robbed us of this ancient art but the smarter of today’s businesses have started to realise that networking is the best and most cost effective way to grow the business. Breaking news – networking is not an art it’s a science; we are proficient practitioners in this science and can help you to become as proficient. Supply Chain and LogisticsIn today’s business environment it is supply chains, not companies that compete. Extending the Lean Thinking Approaches to encompass end to end supply chains and value streams is vital to being competitive. Our approach to integrating and optimising the supply chain is “seeing the whole” supply chain mapping. Similar to value stream mapping only the scope is the end to end value stream or supply chain. It identifies and prioritises the waste to be removed so that improvement efforts can be focussed. We can guide you through setting up and sustaining your supply chain considerations. Sales & MarketingGetting your sales and marketing right is crucial to the success of any business. Simply understanding your market is not enough. You need to build on your marketing plans, turning theory into profits. A good sales strategy will help you identify and take advantage of the best opportunities. We develop, market, sell and implement process and methodologies that improve the performance of salespeople, sales teams, sales managers, and channel partners. The solution portfolio includes consulting services, training, and tools. StrategyToday’s business environment is dynamic. Traditional documented business plans and strategies are often out-of-date before the ink is even dry on the paper. Using the PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT approach we can help you create a business strategy that is responsive enough to meet the challenges facing a 21st Century business. Once the plan is agreed by the senior team, the key to implementing the plan is to engage the entire workforce in delivering the result. Our approach is not only to communicate the plan but to help everyone in the business understand their role and their vital individual contribution to its success. Problem SolvingThe activities of problem solving and decision making are closely intertwined. Our approach is to help you conduct a rigorous analysis of the problems you face, helping you look at as many factors as possible in a structured and methodical way. We believe that "problems" are often the result of our own perspectives on a phenomena, eg, if we look at it as a "problem," then it will become one and we'll probably get very stuck on the "problem". We aim to identify your attitudes towards the situation in the past, wishing and thinking about what worked best. We then guide you towards visioning what you want in the future, and building from your strengths to work toward your vision. Profitable Growth
Our combination of skills and approaches enables businesses to both achieve and sustain profitable growth increasing the short and long term viability of your business. Business ImprovementOrganisations need to improve to survive. Business improvement can be approached in many different ways. It may be ‘revolutionary’, changing the fundamental nature of a business. Alternatively, change may be concerned simply with doing certain things better. Improvement may be tackled in one step or implemented though a sequence of smaller adjustments. It may be ‘business-led’, directed by the goals of the organisation, or ‘opportunity-led’, taking advantage of innovations in technology. People issues are also important, so the approach to change must adequately address social, political and cultural constraints. Regardless of the basic approach to improvement adopted, successful change must take all relevant factors into account. Business InnovationFrom continuous improvement to continuous transformation. Many of the approaches described so far have been about continuous improvement or getting better. Important in helping companies stay competitive. Our belief is that thinking, doing and being different is vital to creating sustainable market leadership and quantum leap profits growth through innovation uniqueness and differentiation. And becoming different is a commitment to continuous transformation of both the company and its industry. It’s about going beyond customer lead through seeing existing opportunities that exceed customer expectations, anticipating the future benefits that customers would never ask for by using the Lean tools to get a deep understanding of their latest and unarticulated needs, that will make competitors irrelevant in that they can’t and don’t offer what your company can offer. Fixed-Asset OptimisationAlthough investing in new equipment is expensive, the purchase price typically only represents 30 % of the life-cycle cost, the other 70% is adversely affected by downtime, reliability, poor performance and quality issues once the equipment is in place (some of which could have been avoided in the design phase). The challenge many businesses face is how get more value from their fixed assets either by generating more output without an increase in operating costs or by reducing the unit cost of production at current sales volumes. Our experts can demonstrate how to achieve up to a 50% improvement in overall equipment effectiveness (dependent on the current status) and can develop your people to sustain ongoing improvement. AdministrationMany businesses are challenged by the balancing act of working on the business rather than in the business. We can take on any administrative task and free up your time to focus on maximising your business results. No more Sunday afternoons or unnecessary overtime - let us be your administrative solution. |
