Webinars
The following is a listing of past webinars TBM has produced.
- Closing The Gap Between Breakthrough Objectives and Continuous Improvement Efforts Webinar
Most companies have a continuous improvement (CI) program, but only a few companies align CI activities to achieve their most critical breakthrough objectives. A new IndustryWeek research study found a large gap between growth goals and operational excellence performance -- even among companies with mature and enterprise-wide continuous improvement cultures. Learn where the biggest gaps are -- and how to address them. You'll also find out how to realign your continuous improvement efforts to be more growth-focused. Click here to watch the recorded webcast.
- Creating an Effective Process for the Rapid Design, Development and Launch of New Product Introductions
A discussion of the apparel industry's challenges and operations pain points and how using lean can help support product lifecycle management, drive competitiveness and ensure growth. Ken Koenemann, TBM Consulting Group's Lean Value Chain expert will also discuss how to use lean in the product design and development cycle to improve speed to market.
- Effective Execution of a Business Process Kaizen
Effective execution of a business process kaizen is essential to a successful lean transformation. Once manufacturing lead times have been significantly reduced, business processes may account for the majority of lead time for any given process. Focusing on waste elimination in your business processes will significantly improve your speed and give you a competitive edge to grow your business and profit margins.
Join Gary Rascoe, Senior Management Consultant with TBM Consulting Group and Douglas Shuff, Director of Finance – Strategic Projects for Harsco Corporation as they discuss best practices for business process kaizen and lessons learned from Harsco Corporation’s business process kaizen initiative.- Giving Your Company the Edge through Effective Strategy Deployment
Many companies implement change in their organizations including the use of a Lean Sigma improvement approach but few sustain the benefits. Many formulate excellent strategies but few execute them with intended results. Join an online presentation about business strategy, sustainable results and getting your organization to become a higher value-adding entity with a sustainable approach to effective execution. This concise overview will give you a unique take-away value to improve your company performance. You will also see real bottom-line benefits achieve of several Fortune 500 companies.
This webinar session is perfect for senior leaders who are involved in steering their organizations to become high value-adding entitles and are looking for a systematic approach for their leadership to achieve and sustain breakthrough results.
Gary Hourselt, TBM principal, previously served as CEO of Huck Fasteners where he doubled revenues and grew pretax income by a factor of seven. He also led the acquisition and integration of four businesses in four years through a systematic approach to effective strategy implementation. Gary leads TBM’s Global Strategy Deployment, Growth and International practice areas. He brings many years of broad and practical experience in lean business strategy development and deployment. Gary is co-author of The Antidote, How to Transform Your Business for the Extreme Challenges of the 21st Century.- The High Performance Enterprise
An overview of the Brady Business Performance System and their use of Strategy Deployment to achieve breakthrough results.
If you want a better management process for effectively implementing and achieving your strategic plans, this valuable one-hour webinar will help. Hosted by TBM Consulting Group, the discussion will focus on real-world challenges of strategy deployment (also known as Policy Deployment or Hoshin Kanri) and highlights proven approaches for success. Included is a case study of the Brady Corporation, featuring Greg Anapol, VP, Brady Business Performance System, who will discuss the successful strategy deployment process his company utilizes and the breakthrough results they have achieved. Brady is an established user of Dploy Solutions, TBM’s web-based suite of products that helps organizations focused on continuous improvement to effectively measure and sustain results driven by strategy deployment, metrics tracking and sharing best practices.
- Improving Shareholder Value: Marrying the Lean Journey to the Strategic Vision
Over 70 percent of manufacturing companies are engaged in lean or continuous improvement activities yet nearly half of executives are concerned that their programs are not helping to achieve their operational and market objectives. Join Bill Schwartz for an informative webinar session and learn what business results you should expect at different stages of your lean progress.
- Intelligent Growth
Anand Sharma gives an overview of global economic trends and how they impact the way executives are thinking about growth today. Gain an understanding of how manufacturing and continuous improvement teams can help the organization achieve its breakthrough growth objectives and learn how organizations align their CI initiatives to key performance indicators that drive significant improvements in long term value creation.
- One Size Doesn't Fit All Customers - Using Value Stream Segmentation to Deliver Market-Based Strategy
A customer-centric, value stream segmentation approach is the best way to connect execution with strategy. When we think in value streams we get closer to our customers and better understand their needs. By aligning the supply chain strategy to specific value streams, we create satisfied customers and eliminate waste at the same time. Join Ken Koenemann, TBM Vice President and value chain expert, to learn how organizations are embracing value stream segmentation to outperform competitors and optimize internal performance. He will highlight best practices, appropriate metrics, and success stories to help you think about what operating structure is needed to make it a success.
- Planning for Success through Policy Deployment
Almost every company goes through an annual strategic planning process. The rubber hits the road when it comes to effective implementation of those plans. Many times, strategic plans go on the shelf and come back to life either mid-year or at the end of the year when you start the next planning cycle. Oftentimes, companies find they failed to achieve their goals and find themselves asking, “how did this happen?” Today, more than ever, it is critical for companies to successfully execute business strategies. Effective, breakthrough strategy deployment is often overlooked at the expense of day-to-day operational activities. A handful of companies are using the Policy Deployment process, often called Hoshin planning, to achieve step-change growth objectives. Join Ken Koenemann from TBM Consulting Group and one of our client partners to learn what they’re doing to ensure an effective Policy Deployment process. The presenters will highlight common obstacles, shed light on best practices, and share their approach for generating the breakthrough results they need to excel and prosper.
- Quickly Reducing Working Capital to Generate Cash in Times of Economic Turmoil
Today's global financial crisis has tightened credit markets. Not only is it more difficult to get lines of credit is becoming more expensive to secure it. Cash on hand can be used to fund growth through acquisition, for capital equipment purchases, or to reduce short-term borrowing needed to cover expenses. Why tie up working capital with excessive receivables and inventory? Join Ken Koenemann, Managing Director for the TBM Lean Value Chain Practice, and learn how several companies have deployed lean thinking to quickly free up cash. Some highlights include the application of product portfolio rationalization, demand segmentation, and use of pull replenishment to eliminate non-profitable product lines, reduce finished goods inventory, and improve gross margin. Other examples include the development of improved accounts receivable processes to reduce Days Sales Outstanding. After hearing what Ken has to say, you'll leave the web seminar ready to identify the most attractive opportunities to reduce working capital and create better cash flow.
- Rapid Operational Improvement and Business Rightsizing in a Turbulent Economy
Listen to Ken Koenemann from TBM Consulting Group—the global leading provider of lean consulting and training services to the manufacturing sector. Companies facing drastic declines in demand due to the current recession are often challenged with excess inventories, tight cash flow, fluctuations in demand, and a need to recalibrate their business to the new economic climate. He will share a success story where a surgical approach of rapid LeanSigma deployment drove immediate savings to the bottom line—helping the company to achieve profitability while quickly eliminating costs, improving quality, productivity, and delivery times. Understand the challenges this company faced, what solutions they developed, what results they generated and how they did it.
- Rapidly Integrating a Newly Acquired Business
3D Instruments is a newly acquired company of WIKA Instrument Corporation, a 10-year plus lean practitioner. They have used their operational lean experience and strong knowledge transfer processes resource exchange to evaluate and transfer 3D Instruments from a batch and queue manufacturing environment into a lean organization. Brockmeyer will present an overview of the first 12 months of this engagement and the future for 3D Instruments.
- A Roadmap to Accommodate Future Growth
WIKA Instrument Corporation, the world leader and manufacturer of pressure gauges and other critical measurement instruments, needed their distribution department to support a globally competitive market strategy by reducing order-to-shipment lead times and preparing for a 25% increase in sales volume without adding people and floor space. After establishing market-based objectives for where they need to be by 2010, WIKA created a detailed schedule of mutually-reinforcing kaizen events and related projects. Cross-functional improvement teams applied lean principles to simplify order picking, packaging and shipping processes. The changes also streamlined product flow, and improved inventory management.
- Strategy Deployment: Best Practices and Leadership Behaviors that Deliver Breakthrough Results
Pactiv Corporation committed to continuous improvement over three years ago but their management team decided it needed to step-up the pace by building a better process for bridging the gap between planning and execution. Learn how they utilize Policy Deployment (otherwise known as goal deployment, strategy deployment, or Hoshin Kanri) to align people, plans, process and performance. Gain insight to a management process that translates 3-5 year goals for market share growth, profitability, cash flow and innovation and creates focus on annual objectives, business processes and measurable targets that unite and align the entire organization.
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