The Adonis Blog

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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Hybrid Work Arrangements – Top 3 Applications for Success

The COVID-19 pandemic brought remote and hybrid work arrangements to the forefront of business development discussions. Now, three years after the first stay-at-home order during the pandemic, businesses are trying to find the “new normal” for what’s optimal in terms of working remotely versus working in an office setting.

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Translating the Voice of Customer (VoC)

Customer focus drives questions for an organization to think strategically and align cross functional teams. Strategic questions such as Why are we in business? Where do we need to be in the future? and What is the source of our competitive advantage? can be better answered when we understand what customers value the most.

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Project Management – Managing Risks for Success

One of the most important tasks in project management is identifying potential risks involved with the project. No project is without risks, but the role of project management is to minimize these risks as much as possible or avoid common pitfalls beforehand.

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Baselining a Project

Nearly almost all Lean Six Sigma projects that experience a successful outcome are based on an understandable, quantifiable, agreed-upon, data-collectable baseline.

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Analyzing the Happy Path

Customer focus drives questions for an organization to think strategically and align cross functional teams. Strategic questions such as Why are we in business? Where do we need to be in the future? and What is the source of our competitive advantage? can be better answered when we understand what customers value the most.

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Make Project Management Practical

Managing a project is never easy and without proper management, projects are headed for tough times or failure. Our Adonis Partners team has first-hand experience in managing small and large projects.

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Identifying & Prioritizing the Right Projects

Identifying and prioritizing projects are two of the most important components of running a successful organization. A focused, detailed plan of action will help you identify and prioritize the right projects to stay on track to achieve your goals.

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Navigating Organizational Politics

Organizational politics involves performing influence tactics for the sake of organizational or personal interests. Organizational politics can impact all levels of a company, which is why it is important to learn how to navigate political situations and create positive outcomes instead.

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Operational Task Management – Learning While Doing

“Working On the Business While In the Business” and “Learning While Doing” are concepts we often discuss and are heard in association with business management. These ideas emphasize the importance of balancing day-to-day operational tasks with strategic thinking and continuous learning to keep the business moving forward. But how do we do this in a controlled way that avoids distress, productivity loss or missing goals?

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Using Control Charts

Control charts were originally used in the deployment of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and later on adopted into the Six Sigma framework.

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