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Our “thinking people system” incorporates focuses on 4 Key Areas
Ensuring that every transformation has a clear purpose and rationale for the business. Using Hoshin Kanri as our methodology of choice, we consistently ensure that every decision impacts the business is aligned you’re your strategic intent (Strategic Leadership)
Creating the right “Knowledge Management System” is essential element for sustainability. Leveraging capability, capacity and competency, of your leaders ensures the application & sustainment of every new practice (People Engagement)
We focus on fueling business growth. Using the Seven Financial Levers, we help leaders improve cash flow, speed the cash conversion cycle, and drive profitability. Our end-to-end model shortens sales cycles, reduces errors, and strengthens cash - business oxygen.
Creating laser focus is vital to delivering on business expectations. Therefore, we focus only on the few “wildly important” activities & metrics that change your business and delight your customers (Performance Management)
With these powerful time-tested practices of Toyota, we identify methods and approaches to solve your most pressing business problems and develop solutions to resolve them.
Global Optimization Expert
Transform your operations with proven TPS/Lean methodologies that frees up capacity, smooths flow of operations, generates transparency, reduces costs and builds sustainable excellence.
Focusing on the implementation of the Toyota Best Practices, we connect the Toyota Production System (TPS) + Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) + Total Quality Management (TQM) + Total People Development (TPD) in our approach that has consistently attained “unimaginable results”. From analysis to implementation and follow-up, we ensure companies around the world achieve sustainable business transformation results with direct impacts to the bottom-line and in the capabilities of their people.
Since 2019, our expansion with collaborations across the globe include 69 Joint Venture Partnerships in more than 40 countries with 85 Consultants. This ever-expanding network of global TPS/Lean Experts & Coaches affords our clients the unique opportunity to provide Global Engagements with the best possible Local Expertise. That “network” has now positioned us to support both on-site and virtual TPS/Lean Transformations with our unique digital solutions for value chain optimization, energy optimization and digitalization. Our “Virtual Coaching” affords our clients synchronized heartbeat support strategies while off-site and links with our interactive “Virtual Obeya”.
As a solutions providers and leaders of TPS/Lean principles and practices, Makoto Flow’s network of professional’s influences at every level, from the C-Suite to Mid-Level Management and all the way down to the shopfloor with Team Leaders, enabling every aspect of a transformation to be fully embedded in the DNA of your business.
Our passion and insights are contagious and inspirational as we have a deep sense of humility, integrity of purpose and a calming leadership presence that not only drives changes but creates opportunities for long-term success.
Some Case Studies of Selected Accomplishments:
In the telecommunications industry. A cradle to grave concept that utilized the Hoshin Kanri & laser focused improvement initiatives to achieve break-through market penetration. Main enablers were smooth flow of products & services, extra-ordinary customer care and streamlined logistics delivery that made this organization #1 in its market.
A high-level approach to identifying and eliminating “pain points” that ate away at hard earned profits. Done in the off-shore construction industry as a preventive stop & fix initiative, we established strong standards in the way work is done, visualized the value of the process, eliminated all non-essential work to impact key performance metrics resulting in $250K daily operating vessel cost reductions.
If you are serious about a lean cultural transformation. Changing traditional behaviors from using tools to modeling lean behaviors requires an emotional component that is critical for success. Our model deploys 12 distinct lean leadership behaviors that support the attainment of easier ways of working, higher levels of quality and faster turnaround times.
Within the service industry, in 8 months we deployed a series of “kaizen events” through the development of Optimization facilitators. 16 events later, $40 mil in hard & soft savings, 1.2% EBITDA & 35% higher productivity.