Our Approach
How many consulting firms unconditionally guarantee every aspect of their work? TBM is the only one I know of.
Tim Powers, Chairman & CEO,
Hubbell Incorporated
LeanSigma® Business Transformation
TBM Consulting Group’s heritage in helping organizations become lean originates from our decades of experience and in-depth knowledge of time-based strategies and the Toyota Production System. The hallmark of our work is rapid implementation and generating sustainable results. We use Lean Sigma®, our revolutionary fusion of today’s most powerful improvement tools, to implement Lean and Six Sigma in a single, coordinated effort. We can help you break down your barriers to attain new levels of efficiency and productivity, exploit new competitive advantages and achieve sustainable profit and revenue growth.
Clients generally approach TBM in pursuit of operational efficiency, but they soon discover that a lean business system provides an effective foundation for creating a flexible and singular, customer-focused culture. Lean thereby resolves the number one reason that business improvement initiatives fail to take hold or lose momentum: lack of culture change.
A traditional long-term lean transformation occurs over a three- to five-year period and the level of engagement with TBM varies based on the complexity, pace and client focus. We begin by establishing a foundation for lean leadership and culture change, and quickly introduce Lean Sigma process improvement tools to build understanding of time-based management strategies and the Kaizen Breakthrough Methodology. As companies become leaner inside their four walls, they branch out into the extended Value Chain to work with customers, suppliers, and business planning and scheduling. Ultimately, they leverage their operational advantage and utilize Lean Sigma as a strategy to differentiate, innovate, acquire and grow.
The Kaizen Breakthrough Methodology is a cornerstone of TBM Consulting Group’s improvement approach. A kaizen breakthrough event is a five-day improvement project—conducted on your shop floor or office—to help you to identify waste and reconfigure operations to achieve more streamlined, value-added processes. Kaizen teams are empowered to make immediate business process changes. At the end of a week, these teams typically achieve double-digit reductions in lead time, inventory, defects, and floor space, and 25 to 50 percent increases in productivity.
Many TBM clients also utilize a lean approach for rapid-fire, short-duration projects focusing on urgent challenges that must deliver an immediate ROI. This focused approach, which we call Rapid Rightsizing, combines project work, kaizen events and lean tools simultaneously across an entire business process. In today’s economic climate such initiatives are helping our clients improve cash flow and reduce working capital, manage credit challenges, cut bloated inventory levels, reduce floor space requirements, improve quality and decrease energy consumption. Rapid Rightsizing projects may take anywhere from 60 to 120 days to complete and frequently release hundreds – even millions – of dollars straight to the bottom line.
Whatever the ultimate objective may be, our approach is customized to each client’s individual needs.
The LeanSigma Business Transformation Model
