The Adonis Blog

Achieving Organizational Alignment for Sustainable Growth

To drive sustainable growth and value creation, leadership teams must ensure all functions are working toward common objectives. Continuous Improvement methodologies facilitate problem-solving, encourage data-driven decision-making, and promote cross-functional collaboration.

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How to Design and Build a High-Impact BEx Team

Creating a BEx team involves dedication and thoughtful structuring through training programs and effective motivational strategies. It’s one thing to bring a group of your best employees together. It’s another altogether to create a cohesive team that can achieve business excellence.

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Turning Negative EBITDA into a Positive

Adonis Partners transformed a food and beverage manufacturer’s unclear staff responsibilities and inefficient scheduling into a streamlined operation within a culture of accountability.

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How to Get Immediate and Quantifiable Outcomes Through Lean

In a blog post my colleague Travis Ratnam wrote on the essence of lean transformation, he explored the benefits of this transformational management philosophy for achieving business excellence. Implementing lean practices can indeed deliver immediate and quantifiable outcomes, providing several benefits to a business.

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The Value of Experience in Lean Transformation

Experience plays a crucial role in Lean transformation, which is why Adonis Partners focuses on partnering experts with our valued clients. Our team members have invaluable years of experience, coming from various backgrounds and industries.

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3 Types of ISO Audits

The goal of ISO is to develop and coordinate industrial standards in areas ranging from data storage to manufacturing. In this article, we will give you a brief overview of the three types of ISO audits and how different audits are conducted.

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Best Practices for Addressing Company Turnover

An organization’s success is inherently tied to its employees. The strength and resilience of an organization is dependent on the knowledge, skills, and dedication of its workforce. But high employee turnover can weaken the strength of the workforce, and that is why it’s critical to keep a pulse on employee culture and the rate of turnover in order to create an environment that will foster retention.

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Identifying Wastes in a Process

The elimination of waste is a core principle behind a lean-driven organization’s efforts toward process excellence. Waste goes beyond tangible and visual defects at the end of the line – even when the “line” is one out of a transactional process; for example, errors in a form that cannot render a claim in an insurance company.

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Leveraging FMEA for Risk Mitigation

FMEA, short for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is a forward-thinking and powerful risk mitigation tool that Continuous Improvement practitioners use. It is a living document, used to anticipate and prevent failure from occurring.

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Going to Gemba

Gemba has been widely used, for some time now, by Continuous Improvement (CI) practitioners around the globe. But what does it mean and how important is this concept in our continued journey towards operational excellence?

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Using SIPOC in M&A

SIPOC stands for Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, and Customers. It is a high-level process mapping tool utilized mainly to map out what goes in and out of a given process, and how the key steps to run the process are described.

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Error Proofing with Technology

Also known as Poka-Yoke, from poka (inadvertent errors) and yokeru (to avoid), error proofing is the technique continuous improvement practitioners use to prevent errors that ultimately lead to defects in a process.

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Transforming through Lean

A lean transformation can help companies to take their business practices and evolve them to a more refined state. These transformations empower teams to work together fluidly, eliminating potential issues and striving to provide consistent and high-level results for customers.

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Coaching and Giving Feedback

A key component of running a successful business is being able to coach and provide feedback to employees. As a leader or manager, providing proper guidance for employees ensures they can succeed in the workplace and continue to improve.

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Taking a Problem-Solving Approach

To run a business to its fullest potential, it’s important to ensure that your employees are engaged with their work and see the linkage to your company’s vision.

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Engaging Employees

To run a business to its fullest potential, it’s important to ensure that your employees are engaged with their work and see the linkage to your company’s vision.

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Sustaining CI Through Challenging Times

Continuous Improvement (CI) is difficult to maintain under normal circumstances, never mind when unexpected challenges arise. In this article, we will tackle some ways in which your business can continue to improve, even when times are tough.

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Implementing Business Excellence

Adonis Partners collaborated with a revenue cycle management company to launch a Lean Six Sigma deployment, achieving significant operational improvements and cost savings.

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Reducing Lead Time to Achieve Growth Goals

Adonis Partners assisted a national provider of telemedicine services in streamlining their credentialing process, drastically reducing the time required and enabling faster expansion to meet growth goals.

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Using 2 Proportions Test with SigmaXL

A 2 Proportions Test is a statistical procedure used to validate if two independent groups have significant differences in their proportions. We can use this test to compare, for example, if the proportion of one group is significantly higher than the other.

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