Operational Excellence
GP’s Operational Excellence Practice offers consulting,
training, coaching, and hands-on implementation, ensuring the right mix of
tools and systems to help you and your supply chain, design and deploy an initiative,
achieve dramatic results, and sustain culture change. With offices around the world,
we help your organization globally, while working locally.
What sets GP apart is our drive to help you create a business operating system that
sustains your continuous-improvement culture. We start by helping you choose the
right mix of disciplines to improve operations from methodologies such as
Lean, Six Sigma, and Reliability
Excellence/Total Productive Maintenance.
Tools are not enough, however. The missing ingredient in most improvement initiatives
is a strong management system. So GP helps you apply Goal Deployment
and Daily Management systems that help you develop an enduring culture of
waste elimination, variability reduction, and innovation.
Drive sustainable change through our focused disciplines.
Your culture, goals, and needs are unique. GP has proven experience with a broad
range of disciplines and can optimize a solution to match your needs through a mix
of:
- Lean —GP helps you transform critical operations.
Your front-line people and their managers will gain a deep understanding of the
principles and tools of Lean.
- Six Sigma —We provide coaching, modular training,
and certification for sponsors, process owners, Master Black Belts,
Black Belts, and Green Belts, covering statistical
tools, leadership, and problem solving skills.
- Lean Six Sigma —GP integrates Lean and Six Sigma
to reduce cycle time and variability, with a structured approach to the analysis,
understanding, and improvement of processes.
- Reliability Excellence —Our system combines maintenance
and reliability practices with Lean principles. We provide training for front-line
people and managers, along with hands-on implementation.
- New product development —GP offers modular courses
on practical tools and techniques for integrating the new product development process,
from concept to design, and from development to manufacturing.
- Leadership and management —We help leaders learn
the foundations of management systems—Goal Deployment and Daily Management—so
they assure that gains are sustained.
- Supply chain development —We work with you to assess
your suppliers’ performance, and plan and deploy a supplier improvement initiative
to align your operational, transaction, and organizational processes.
Benefit from our robust approach.
Whether it is a complete business transformation or a focused project, GP’s
robust approach helps you define opportunities, set priorities,
mobilize, improve performance, develop leadership, and create a culture that strives
for excellence. We help you deploy goals from top to bottom, and develop a daily
management process to sustain your improvements. The net result is a sustainable
transformation.
Gain measurable results and a rapid ROI.
GP’s methods have helped our clients from prestigious
companies achieve a 5- to 33-fold return on consulting fees and quantum-leap
improvements in key performance indicators and culture change. In fact,
our results are often so transformative that many of our clients have offered
testimonials praising our energy and “roll-up-your-sleeves”
focus, as well as our ability to change their culture.
Access decades of improvement experience.
The GP Operational Excellence Practice combines two acquisitions: Deltapoint
Corporation and Smallpeice Enterprises. Deltapoint,
founded in 1978, was an early leader in bringing Total Quality Management,
Total Productive Maintenance, and Lean to North America. Smallpeice,
founded in 1966, provides business-improvement programs through training, coaching,
and deployment of Lean, Six Sigma, new product development, and management skills.
Contact us today to learn more about GP’s Operational Excellence Practice: