Start-ups
You are working really hard and wearing many hats, and you have unique issues that come with establishing a new enterprise. We understand and have experience with helping establish some basics that will find you more time and be more deliberate. Maybe you're experiencing some of the following...
Issues you may be facing
Too Busy Working on Day-to-Day
You are focusing your efforts on today's work rather than strategy and the future. As you success grows, we can help you shift more of your efforts into the leader/strategist role and hand off some of the hands-on work in a way that ensures it is done to the standards you expect.
- Strategic Plan with a Playbook your team can follow to win
- Visualization of KPIs and Daily Management
- RACI to help know how and whom to communicate with
Chaos Reigns to Just Get It Done
Things are done one way this time and differently the next time, with no one really knowing the best way to do it, or if the necessities are even being done. In fact, depending who is covering the work today, they may not know what is needed.
- Understand who the customers are - both internal and external - and their needs & wants (SIPOC)
- Documented processes with SOPS and checklists for consistency
- Standards for use in training new people
No Plan for Future Organizational Structure
You need to hire more employees. We can help you analyze the processes your team is working through and enable your resources to be more productive.
- Reduce Non Value-Added activities and improve percentage of Value-Added activities to better satisfy customers
- 5S work stations to reduce wasted efforts and waste
- Enable employees to feel more empowered and satisfied at the end of the day
- People development for succession succcess
- Skills progression matrix to develop employees and enable redistribution of resources to cover needs
Too Busy to Show New People What to Do
You need to find more capacity. We will analyze your operations and enable you become more efficient so you can produce more quality products to fulfill customer orders in a timely manner.
- Standardized processes with SOPS, checklists and other tools to aid current employees and new trainees
- People Development toward career planning
We Get it Done, but It is NOT Pretty!
Your team manages to get the work done, but it is hard work and is not with the level of consistency that will turn your customers into unofficial brand ambassadors
- RACIs where everyone understands who is responsible and who is accountable, who gets consulted and who gets informed of events, decisions, etc.
- Documented processes with SOPS and checklists for consistency
- Standards for use in training new people