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White Paper: Enhancing Cybersecurity Through Continuous Improvement Methodologies
Learn nine continuous improvement methodologies that can help organizations overcome challenges and enhance cybersecurity.
Standardizing Data and Transparency in Multi-Site Operations
Without consistent key performance indicators (KPIs), leadership teams of multi-site operations struggle to make informed decisions, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.
Overcoming Limited Resources in Multi-Site Operations
Resource constraints are a common challenge in multi-site operations. Balancing these constraints with the need to accelerate value creation is possible with continuous improvement tools.
Production Layout Optimization to Increase Capacity
Adonis Partners helped an aviation MRO company optimize its facility layout and production workflows for product line expansion through continuous improvement measures.
Creating Value Through Acquisition
Adonis Partners helped a defense tech company seamlessly execute a $350M acquisition after previous poorly integrated acquisitions.
System and Process Stabilization Post Implementation
Adonis Partners helped an aerospace manufacturer integrate new production systems, resulting in streamlined operations and maximal on-time performance.
Designing Store Process Improvements to Drive Profitability
Adonis Partners helped a specialty retail company optimize store operations and streamline order fulfillment, resulting in amplified capacity and overall efficiency.
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.
Continuous Improvement as a Competitive Advantage – the Role of Effective BEx Deployment
When paired with robust Business Excellence (BEx) deployment methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, continuous improvement becomes a powerful tool for achieving long-term growth and maintaining a competitive edge.
Building Capabilities to Drive Continuous Improvement in Information Technology
Adonis Partners helped a major healthcare company establish a scalable continuous improvement framework, resulting in heightened employee engagement and optimized IT performance.
Reducing Demurrage Cost through Collaboration
Adonis Partners helped a manufacturer reconstruct scheduling processes and inventory management, drastically improving operational efficiency and demurrage costs.
Creating Value Through 3PL Expertise
Adonis Partners helped a manufacturer optimize its third-party logistics partnerships, resulting in considerable savings and streamlined operational efficiency.
White Paper: Accelerating Value Creation in Multi-Site Operations Through Continuous Improvement
Learn how to overcome the five biggest obstacles to value creation in multi-site operations with continuous improvement methodologies.
Creating a Roadmap for Business Excellence
Adonis Partners helped a software company identify key improvement opportunities and develop actionable strategies, resulting in end-to-end operational business excellence.
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.
Standardizing IT to Address Quality Issues
Adonis Partners helped a rapidly growing marketing agency address quality issues and improve delivery consistency through IT standardization and process optimization.
Bryan Tutor
Senior Partner
Improving On-Time and Complete Delivery
Adonis Partners helped a construction materials manufacturer overhaul their operational processes, resulting in an efficient workflow and improved delivery performance.
Greg Dumont
Senior Partner
Manoj Mohta
Senior Partner
Creating Value Beyond the Bottom Line: How Business Excellence Fuels ESG Initiatives
The modern business landscape demands more than strong financial results—organizations are now evaluated on balancing profitability with societal obligations.
Lew Gordon
Senior Partner
Building a Resilient Organization – Key Leadership Traits for a Successful Business Excellence Program
In today’s ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to adapt and thrive amid challenges is critical for any organization’s long-term success. Business Excellence (BEx) isn’t just a set of practices but a mindset that demands resilience, adaptability, and proactive leadership.
White Paper: Best Practices for Successful Business Excellence Deployment
Learn best practices for deploying Business Excellence to develop management systems and processes to drive sustainable performance and deliver value for stakeholders.
Creating Shareholder Value through Operational Excellence
Adonis Partners helped a technology infrastructure company achieve operational excellence by training staff in Lean methodologies and executing groundbreaking projects.
Process Mapping to Identify Best Practices
Adonis Partners helped a manufacturer assess process inefficiencies and implement best practices, resulting in a unified framework for continuous improvement.
Building for Tomorrow by Optimizing Order Entry
Adonis Partners helped construction and manufacturing company transform their order entry process and empower their teams, enabling faster, more efficient operations.
Building an Army of Problem Solvers
Adonis Partners helped a healthcare revenue cycle management company streamline operations and established cross-functional collaboration in just one month.
Breaking Down Silos for Greater Collaboration Through Lean & Project Management Training
Adonis Partners helped a healthcare revenue cycle management company streamline operations and established cross-functional collaboration in just one month.
14 Outcomes You Can Expect from Lean Transformation
Here we explore the typical beneficial outcomes that individuals, teams, and businesses can expect from a lean transformation.
Establishing Business Excellence to Drive Productivity
Adonis Partners helped a manufacturing company address stagnant productivity growth and underperforming investments by standardizing operational excellence.
Benchmarking Sites and Plant Manager Effectiveness
Adonis Partners helped a renowned packaging company optimize plant management by identifying current barriers, resulting in an effective leadership team and sustainable performance improvements.
Coaching to a Continuous Improvement Mindset
Adonis Partners helped a packaging company combat significant operational flaws, resulting in a highly trained leadership team and a system designated for growth.
Michael Lachapelle
Senior Partner
Michael Foss
Managing Partner
Mark Estep
Managing Partner
Reducing Cost by Optimizing the Supply Chain
Adonis Partners helped a dairy co-operative identify areas of improvement and facilitate change, resulting in over $5M in savings and leadership equipped to drive continuous improvement.
Establishing a Lean Foundation to Improve Operations
Adonis Partners helped a food and beverage distributor transform their corporate culture, resulting in cross-departmental collaboration and strong employee morale.
Designing and Implementing Business Excellence
Adonis Partners helped a logistics solutions provider develop and launch a continuous improvement plan, resulting in significant cost savings and high-level leadership growth.
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.
Establishing Optimal Manufacturing Order Quantity
Adonis Partners helped a beverage manufacturer align order sizes and improve current operations, resulting in optimized operational efficiency and consistent production.
Building Capabilities to Drive Continuous Improvement
Adonis Partners helped a leading beverage manufacturer implement Lean Six Sigma methodologies, resulting in a culture of continuous improvement to drive value.
Establishing a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Adonis Partners helped a biotechnology manufacturer instill a culture of continuous improvement, resulting in a significant increase in productivity and a leadership team trained for success.
Brad Baumunk
Director of Operations & Engagement Manager
Ramon Perdigao
Associate Partner
Hillary McCutcheon
Chief Marketing Officer
Jack Nadeau
Senior Partner
Rubén Padrón
Senior Partner
Leveling Workflow to Achieve Breakthrough Output
Adonis Partners helped a biotechnology manufacturer standardize and streamline workflows, resulting in optimized productivity and a sustainable plan for achieving growth targets.
Navigating a Lean Approach in Information Technology
Adonis Partners helped a pharmaceutical manufacturer adopt lean and agile practices, allowing the company to identify the right problems to solve and their root causes, resulting in the elimination of significant process inefficiencies.
Marilyn Friedmann
Senior Partner
Van Quach
Senior Partner & Supply Chain Practice Lead
Shannon Barrett
Senior Partner
Ron Auza
Senior Partner & Engagement Manager
Michael Lachapelle
Senior Partner
Michael Foss
Senior Partner
Mark Stevens
Senior Partner
Joe Toriello
Senior Partner
Jeff Brubaker
Executive Partner
Jason Morwick
Senior Partner
Doug Lachance
Senior Partner
Darren Vanderburgh
Senior Partner
Landon Weber
Executive Partner
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.
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.
9 Key Principles of Lean Transformation
The fundamental goal of Lean transformation is to eliminate waste, enhance efficiency, and deliver greater value to customers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Catherine Bach
Associate Partner
Brian Pomerance
Senior Partner
Saving Money through Supply Chain Optimization
Supply chain optimization is all about getting the product into the customer’s hands when they want it while spending as little money as possible.
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.
TPM – What is It and Why You Should Care
TPM, or Total Productive Maintenance, is a maintenance program that combines equipment maintenance with the manufacturing process.
Brad Zak
Senior Partner
Bill Gray
Senior Partner
Ben O’Donnell
Senior Partner
Barry Murash
Executive Partner
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.
Solving for a Critical Lever to Turn Around Business
Adonis Partners assisted a Medical Network in revitalizing its business, addressing declining performance and preparing for a profitable Private Equity exit.
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.
Al Lopez
Senior Partner
Building Scalable Processes to Increase Billable Hours & Improve Client Experience
Adonis Partners helped a rapidly growing behavioral healthcare services company streamline their scheduling systems, resulting in significant operational and financial improvements.
Jennifer Hurst
Chief Operating Officer
Travis Ratnam
Managing Partner
The Q-to-Q Kaizen Event: A New Twist on an Established Quality Concept
In the contact center, our resource time is limited and scarce. Yet, as continuous improvement-focused professionals, we strive to deliver quick wins through rapid improvement events—also known as Kaizen Events at Adonis Partners.
Spotlighting Charitable Organizations Close to Our Hearts
At Adonis Partners, we believe in the profound importance of giving back, not just during the holidays, but year-round.
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.
Using Histograms and Descriptive Statistics to Investigate Process Data
A simple summary of descriptive statistics is often the first step in investigating what the data have to say about the process being studied during process improvement initiatives.
Hypothesis Testing – Looking for Statistical Significance
Hypothesis Testing is a statistical procedure that looks into proving (or not) a constructed hypothesis.
Control Charts – Their Uses and the 4 Process States Within
Control charts were originally used in the deployment of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and later adopted into the Six Sigma framework.
Knowledge-Sharing’s Success Impact on Business Impact
The popular saying, “Knowledge is Power,” is very true when it comes to empowering a team to reach organizational goals – whether to drive improvements in processes or to help onboard a new employee.
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