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Process Improvement

What are your business processes REALLY costing YOU?

"C.T.R." - Cycle Time Reduction is the application of the principles and practices of "TQM" - TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT to key business processes with the added element of SPEED! It is about refocusing attention from cost to time and creating the alignment that enables organizations to run circles around their slower competitors.  It is a business process improvement workshop focused on risk reduction, organizational learning and work process improvement with a quick return on the investment.

The primary objectives of CTR are:
Making Processes more Effective - producing desired results
Making Processes more Efficient - minimizing the resources
Making Processes Adaptable - flexibility/adaptability to changing customer & business needs

Why Cycle Time Reduction other than SPEED?
Applicable to business, project and production processes
Enables company to FOCUS on the objective
Builds competitive advantage by improving the UTILIZATION of available resources
Effects major CHANGE management in complex activities in a rapid manner
Effectively manages interrelationships - ALIGNMENT
Provides a systematic view of the organization's activities - INTEGRATION
Maintains focus on the process - CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Prevents errors; Improves reliability - REDUCES RISK
Provides a measure of poor quality cost - REDUCES WASTE
Develops complete MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS for defects and corrective activity
Helps people understand how input becomes output - VALUE
Helps the people understand and be motivated to take action - COMMITMENT
A method to prepare the company to meet its future challenges - BUILDS TEAMS
Huge cost savings &  Quick return on the investment
Increased customer satisfaction  
FAST results!

CTR Book
Find out how these workshops can improve your bottom line:
— From top level commitment and selection the core processes to be redesigned;
— To training of team members in the skills and techniques of CTR;
— To implementation resulting in the improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of the selected processes - the learning and team development starts on day one; ROI starts on day four!

Ask us to how "GAP"TM Implementation can help you.

Ask us how the CTR process can improve your efficiency.  Our first consultation and evaluation is FREE.  You have nothing to loose, you might make a friend, new business contact or learn something new. Give us a call.