A proven strategy and roadmap for rapid business improvement, to help you lead your company through today’s turmoil… and achieve sustained revenue growth, competitive advantage and market leadership.

Most companies, no matter where they are located, are faced with many or all of these challenges:

• Slowing growth and market share losses
• Tighter margins and profit erosion
• Execution shortfalls, in spite of solid business strategies
• Failure to sustain gains from improvement activities
• Resistance to culture change essential to continuous improvement

The survival of the business you lead may hinge on your ability to quickly respond to and manage these challenges. If the steps you’re taking are not fixing your problems or achieving the desired business improvement, we have a proven process called Lean Sigma that embeds continuous improvement into the business’ culture to create rapid, dramatic performance improvement, with minimal capital input:  

• Significantly improved free cash flow
• Profit growth twice your industry average
• Team-oriented culture that drives continuous business improvement
• World-class execution capabilities
• Customer-driven focus across the organization
• Low turnover and high employee satisfaction

One TBM client, Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUBB) transformed their business, reducing lead time from 8 weeks to 2-4 weeks, improving productivity 6% per year, growing sales at 15% per year and increasing profitability by 47% per year. Another, Hayward Pool Products, began their Lean Sigma initiative as the clear market leader – and has since gained 10 more market share points. They have grown their business by 50% with no change in direct labor headcount, with workforce turnover cut from 15% to less than 1%.

Sealy Corporation (NYSE: ZZ), the world’s largest bedding manufacturer, has used Lean Sigma to build a huge lead-time advantage against offshore competitors, who typically quote eight to ten week delivery times. With Lean Sigma’s efficiency and flexibility, Sealy is now producing customized products to order in 48 to 72 hours, without any finished goods inventory. They’ve cut total inventory by 62%, in a business where a one-day reduction in inventory equals about $1.5 million in freed-up cash.

These are not isolated examples, but rather are typical of TBM clients embracing a long-term Lean Sigma culture, with leaders who inspire culture change and continuous Lean improvement throughout their organization and supply chain.  A Lean Sigma business system results in an energized, relentlessly innovative enterprise that can turn on a dime, in unison, to anticipate and quickly meet the many challenges you face.

To compete over the long term, you must continuously break down obstacles, increase your speed and efficiency and get closer to your customers and suppliers. This is the journey that has taken Toyota and thousands of other enterprises to new levels of sustained competitive strength, innovation and growth.