Continuous Improvement
Your goal is to acquire and sustain customers by delivering products and services at cost and on time without sacrificing quality. How do you do it? By developing efficient processes with a supportive company culture. Get there with our continuous improvement services, which recognize the importance of your people and are committed to ensuring value.
The journey to operational excellence
Merriam-Webster defines excellence as the quality of being “eminently good.” Our goal is to nudge organizations of all types and sizes closer to high-end business performance, by instilling a collaborative philosophy that every person and process should be engaged in eliminating waste and enhancing the customer experience.
Our data-driven process excellence techniques and methodologies help you determine what you need to do better – or in some instances radically change – to differentiate yourself from the competition. We work with you to implement tailored, sustainable solutions that won’t be discarded quickly or dismissed as being the latest “flavor of the month.” Employees are empowered to join the conversation, remove obstacles and be part of the change.
An operational excellence mindset aligned with the corporate strategy is your best shot at conquering the marketplace. Our vehicle to help you is continuous improvement.
Continuous improvement services
Companies embedded with a strong culture of continuous improvement – a constant focus on upgrading operations – experience such benefits as increased revenue, decreased risk, and common goals established across the enterprise. They serve their customers better and faster with fewer expenses.
Our resource team is backed by years of industry project experience to navigate you through any step of your operational excellence journey. The assortment of continuous improvement services includes, but is not limited to:
- Hoshin (strategy) planning and facilitation
- Current-state assessment, paired with ideal state creation, to identify opportunities for improvement
- Translating data into decision-wielding information
- Standardization through ISO (International Organization for Standardization) gap assessments and related activities
- Lean and Six Sigma implementation
What’s your need?
Our skilled facilitators are ready to help with your continuous improvement efforts, whether you are just exploring opportunities or have a team of operational excellence specialists that could use an extra hand. Contact Gary Simon at ggsimon@buffalo.edu or 716.645.8837.