
VICE PRESIDENT, NORTH AMERICAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
TBM CONSULTING GROUP
A skilled business leader with experience in both process and discrete manufacturing. Learn More About David Pate.
Research shows that most companies need help sustaining their gains from operational excellence initiatives. A powerful combination of process rigor and technology enables unbeatable, effective execution.
If you’ve recently completed an operational excellence initiative and you’re already seeing the results—standardized processes, reduced costs, improved quality, or time savings, for example—you and your team deserve to be proud. But before you pop the cork and start the celebration, keep in mind there’s still some hard work to be done.
Namely, how are you going to sustain those improvements long-term?
According to recent research by the National Center for the Middle Market and Dr. Peter Ward, a professor of operational management at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, more than two-thirds of mid-sized companies (with annual revenues between $10 million and $1 billion) and three-quarters of larger firms struggle to sustain the improvements they make.
Why is keeping up the good work so hard to do? In a lot of cases, it’s because companies lack the right technology to enable, automate, and streamline the process rigor they must have to continue executing at a higher level. (Read this post to learn more about the role of process rigor in sustaining operational excellence.)
Without the right software and systems, operational improvements have ways of petering out. Here are some of the major tech-related problems companies face:
According to the Center’s research, companies are much more successful at sustaining improvements when they adopt a formal method or approach. The majority of companies that use methods like Six Sigma, Lean, or Advanced Manufacturing Techniques say that those approaches are highly effective.
At Dploy Solutions, our suite of operational excellence tools enables and automates the formal process rigor that is central to these types of approaches. Our software works hand-in-hand with the TBM Management System to deliver both the data and the visibility your company needs to understand operational performance. And it provides tools for making progress toward strategic goals every day. With Dploy Solutions, companies get the support they need to stay focused on sustaining their operational gains long term.
Our latest e-guide explores the Center’s research on how to sustain operational improvements, and it outlines how the Dploy Solutions suite of operational excellence tools works with the TBM Management System to help your company adopt the Center’s recommendations. To learn how you can leverage operational excellence to drive sustainable, profitable growth, download our eGuide today.
VICE PRESIDENT, NORTH AMERICAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
TBM CONSULTING GROUP
A skilled business leader with experience in both process and discrete manufacturing. Learn More About David Pate.