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 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. Our full solutions approach – offering customized 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 Consulting
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.
Leader in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma and Lean Consulting & Training
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.
Workbench of Customized Consulting, Coaching, and Training
Rath & Strong offers a full suite of customized consulting, coaching and training in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Lean, as well as other programs to achieve business process improvement. We work with you to customize 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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Change Management: Team & Influence Skills for Belts
Many Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma initiatives never deliver the benefits – financial and otherwise – that management initially envisioned and counted on. A big contributing factor: the difficulty Belts have in successfully completing their projects.
This difficulty is seldom due to problems in applying the Six Sigma or Lean methodology and tools. Instead, Belts tell us that their biggest challenges are in the “people” areas.
Belts encounter resistance and lack of cooperation as they try to get resources, establish and maintain project team participation, obtain data, gain process owner commitment to improvements, etc. It is in this area of influencing people to get work done that the Belts feel they lack the necessary change management skills and knowledge.
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Integrated Lean Six Sigma
In its Lean Six Sigma Training programs, Rath & Strong incorporates a deep and long history of Lean and Six Sigma implementations with its newest approaches and tools. Clients quickly discover that Lean Six Sigma delivers faster results as it establishes baseline performance levels and focuses powerful statistical tools where they will have the most impact.
Typically, once companies eliminate steps that don’t have value, or the noise, from a process using Lean methodologies, they discover the need for even more advanced methods of uncovering the root cause of abnormalities or variation. And they look to Six Sigma.
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White Paper: Reducing Any and All Cycle Time by 75%
The first attempts to use Just-In-Time (JIT) Manufacturing tools and techniques to reduce the cycle times of administrative processes were aimed at those activities that directly affected customer response time such as customer order processing and invoice preparation. The results exceeded nearly everyone's expectations, and administrative cycle times were reduced between 80% and 86%.
In the process, we learned that practically any administrative process can be reduced by 75% using the tools and techniques of Just-In-Time and Total Quality. The main reason for this is a striking degree of similarity between manufacturing processes and administrative processes. It does not matter whether we look at a relatively simple administrative process such as creating invoices or a very complex process such as introducing new products. We will find just about all of the same elements we find in manufacturing processes. In fact, our rallying cry has become, "A process is a process is a process!"
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