Global Leader in Business Process Improvement and Operations Consulting

Rath & Strong is not your typical consulting firm. Founded in 1935, we've been helping leading companies and organizations achieve lasting change long before most consulting firms even existed. Always an innovator, today Rath & Strong serves clients such as Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Armstrong, General Electric, and ABM AMRO with an integrated portfolio of services in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Lean, Leadership Development, Customer Loyalty, and Culture Change.

Rath & Strong's full solutions approach – offering consulting, coaching, and training –creates change that sticks, and achieves significant quantifiable results and sustainable competitive advantage.

What makes us so respected and effective?

Focus on Leadership and Change Management
First, we’ve learned that focusing on four key leverage points – process, leadership, culture, and customer, and how they relate to one another – is key to any successful business process improvement initiative.

Innovator in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Lean
Second, our experience with Six Sigma and Lean goes back longer than any other firm. In groundbreaking work, we invented many of the tools critical to the Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Lean methodologies.

In the 1970's, Rath & Strong's Dorian Shainin played an integral part in developing Six Sigma at Motorola with Bill Smith. Later, in the 1980's, Rath & Strong helped bring Lean from Japan, pioneering the integration of JIT and Process Redesign with Quality (or what is now commonly referred to as Lean Six Sigma). Rath & Strong also worked with GE Capital when Six Sigma was applied to services across the board for the first time.

Expert in Integrating the Technical and Behavioral Sides of Change
Third, our approach is distinctive. More comprehensive. More focused on leadership, change management, people and influence skills — the skills you need to make any business process improvement, be it Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Lean, or ongoing improvement, really work and truly last. In all aspects of our work we adopt a transparent, highly collaborative style aimed at sharing knowledge and techniques.

Ability to Roll Out Global Business Process Initiatives
Our global capabilities span process improvement, change management, leadership consulting, HR strategies, retention and selection, organizational effectiveness, and training and development assistance. With offices around the world, materials in local languages, and seasoned consultants that understand cultural differences, we are the only consulting firm able to support global rollouts of business process initiatives.

Workbench of Courses, Coaching, and Customized Training
Rath & Strong offers a full suite of courses, coaching, and consulting in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Lean, as well as other customized programs to achieve business process improvement. We work with you to design a training program that is right for you and your organization. We can help your organization get started, help you go enterprise-wide, re-energize an existing program, or help get a stalled effort restarted.

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