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Get Immediate Buy-In to Change, Ignite Increased Productivity and Growth

Two core beliefs guide our work with clients:

90% of the issues that waste time and money and produce poor results are embedded in a company’s processes and interactions – with the caveat that these often work differently than documented or expected
Employees are the world’s experts at knowing what they do every day – their local processes

We use those beliefs and our experience to achieve enthusiastsic buy-in to change – in 1 day. We use the participation and contribution developed to provide hands-on, collaborative assistance to management and employees to rapidly improve productivity, profitability and growth.

Our clients see meaningful results in weeks, and payback in months.

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Challenged by:

Low operating and financial performance?
Need to scale?
Repeatedly solving same issues?
Lack of time?
Initiatives that don’t achieve objectives
Need to attract and retain employees?
Can’t see where to start to resolve?

Ineffective or inefficient processes
Inventory problems
Poor delivery performance
New product delays
Unreliable data
Lack of Culture that Retains & Attracts Employees
Ineffective technology execution

Can’t achieve or sustain change
Lack of employee engagement
Low productivity
Operating in silos
Processes that won’t scale for growth
Poor communications
Stalled certification preparation

Speed matters. If it takes 2 years to make meaningful progress, nobody cares. If it takes 6 months to make meaningful progress, nobody cares. But by directly communicating and applying the principles and key elements outlined we develop immediate, enthusiastic buy-in to change – in one day – and collaboratively implement change at a speed that has a transformational effect on the organization.

Instead of fighting to overcome resistance, all of your effort can be focused on implementing change that people actually want, engaging the entire organization in achieving increased productivity, profitability and growth as part of their daily activities.

Importantly, this creates an environment safe for change and develops an improvement-seeking culture that attracts and retains employees.

4aBetterBusiness’s Vision for our Clients:

Achieve transformational improvements in productivity and growth
Get enthusiastic buy-in to change – in 1 day
Unlock employee knowledge, participation and contribution to change
Implement change immediately to eliminate wasted time and effort and poor results – no training required
Achieve an improvement-seeking culture that attracts and retains employees
Create an environment for, and achieve, ongoing, successful digital transformation
Get meaningful results in weeks and payback in months

What is failing to resolve the challenges you’ve identified costing your company in time, money and frustration? Are you ready to take action NOW to resolve these and achieve a brighter future?

Here is the Process for Working Together

An initial discovery call to speak about your situation, objectives and fit
An assessment, to develop and agree on a custom implementation plan
Custom implementation, as agreed based on the assessment

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Client Examples

Implementation that:

collaboratively resolved 75 issues in 30 days
raised earnings 30% in 6 months without firings
pursued and achieved, within 12 months, first-ever business with Toyota. See More…

Implementation that:

resolved failed acquisition integration
increased on-time delivery from 50% to 96%+ on-time, while reducing inventory by 22%.
achieved above-market value in sale of company See more…

Implementation that

gained accolades from customer
achieved record number of Perfect Attendance awards
first-year hard dollar savings of $1.2 million. See more…

Automotive: Tier I & Tier II parts supplier was operating at lower-quartile performance, with quality and delivery issues.

4aBetterBusiness developed immediate, enthusiastic buy-in to change. Working with management and employees, resolved 75 issues in 30 days and achieved a 30% increase in EBITDA within 6 months, without firings or layoffs.

Used the streamlined processes and improvement-seeking culture developed to pursue and achieve, within 12 months, their first-ever business with Toyota. Then doubled sales and tripled EBITDA within 18 months.

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“It’s easy to say “we know our business”, but working with 4aBetterBusiness developed in our people – through action – a new level of understanding of how to put customer focus into – and take cost and effort out of – our business. We’re “lean everywhere”.

With the streamlined processes and superior execution capability developed, we’ve won new customers, and we’ve doubled our sales in 18 months with the same management and support staff.

– Sander Szoke, General Manager, Venest Automotive (Unit of Magna)

Specialty Chemicals: PE portfolio company, driven to 50% on-time delivery by a failed acquisition integration. 4aBetterBusiness developed immediate, enthusiastic buy-in to change.

Collaborative process re-building achieved 87% on-time delivery in 5 months. Further several-stage digital transformation achieved 96%+ on-time, in-full delivery while reducing inventory by 22%.

Developed new and accelerated processes for new product development. Company was then sold for above-market valuation.

“We’re delighted with the process and outcomes. As impressive as those results are, we’re especially pleased with the way the process developed the buy-in of our employees.

We will be able to sustain those gains and achieve ongoing improvements in performance and profits.”

– Levi Cottington, President, CHT Products

Value-Added Distribution/3PL “We put goals once thought unattainable in our rear view mirror and made process-driven thinking and improvement the “way of doing business” here.

We’ve achieved our highest productivity ever, better identification of customer requirements, increased customer satisfaction, improved team dynamics…and ongoing returns that are multiples of our investment.”