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Whether your needs are strategic, involve process modernization or need better decision-making tools, JBS provides business transformation solutions in four distinct and pragmatic service sectors, and each service is supported by a specific Roadmap. JBS is a certified Lean Six Sigma practice and by being IT vendor independent, we provide unbiased solutions tailored to fit your needs.
WHY TRANSFORMATION?
Our insightful solutions align your investment and resource allocation by business priorities. These options provide both business and technical stakeholders with the visibility and control they need to effectively manage their organizations. Think of Transformation as controlling business change in order to reposition your organization by exploiting potential increases in Growth, Performance or Savings. In today's environment, success can be derived from applied best-in-class solutions. JBS provides business services and solutions developed by notable experts that originally created best-in-class strategic business theories. We are focused on applying those sound principles in our practice for our clients today and apply those ideas within your concern's maturity level.
ARE YOU WRESTLING WITH ISSUES?
In today's environment, success can be derived from applied best-in-class solutions. We recognize that your organization has different needs, approaches must be tailored to fit the stage of growth for the company, solutions should be fitted with you company's maturity level, as well as, those bothersome elements you want help to reduce or eliminate. Transformation is controlling business change and reposition your organization to exploit opportunties. The benefit is to increase Growth, Performance or Savings.
Success is a focused result. It is usually more cost effective to bring in expertise with hands-on experience to help guide you through the details. We have the tools, methodology and talent to help you transform and align with your vision. We can stop all of your problems, provided we can measure, quantify and identify those events for refienment and improvement. And we can resolve and monitor those solutions by implementing controls for their continuous improvement. Let us show you how we apply best-in-class methodology to provide solutions to transform change into benefits.
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Strategic Foundations are an organization's framework of defining its planning process, strategies, objectives and defining decision-making procedures that affect allocating its resources to pursue specific commercial paths. This includes timing of the strategy, addressing market barriers, resources needed [i.e. capital and people], technologies required, and benefits [performance, profitability, security, etc.] that such an undertaking could mandate. The strategic time line is usually greater than two years and most commonly falls around five.
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JBS is a Lean Six Sigma practice and Process Transformation uses empirical, statistical modeling along with methodology to identify, simplify, innovate or automate your unique needs, Through a structured approach, JBS will provide solutions that will improve your efficiency, productivity, performance and conceivably increase your profitability. By-products of process evaluation creates [i.e., data analysis, process metrics, etc.] data points for process monitoring. This is also an opportunity to enrich and leverage your existing decision-making process.
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At the most granular level, and Performance Solutions are the foundation for your corporate refinement engine. JBS provides business best practice tools based on business intelligence technology and information monitoring. These metric based dashboards and scorecards, are designed specifically for your organization and provides your organization effective tools for monitoring the pulse of key activities. The business tools are often linked to services, products and strategic goals and objectives that are measure and manage for success.
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Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing, leading/motivating and controlling. Transformation Learning is a specific area of identifying potential areas of refinement or development that could improve Growth, Performance or Savings. JBS has created a specific process to help enrich your organization and provide you with "refinement engine" to continually improve your performance.
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We take great pride in being a certified Lean Six Sigma practice. It is the current state-of-the-art quality management strategy that today enjoys widespread application in many sectors of industry. This Best-in-Class methodology seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and variability in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical tools.
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Understand that not all Roadmaps fit all situations. We recognize that fact and build your solutions around unique and structured Roadmaps that are focused on the services needed to deploy the types of solutions in your Transformation. We recognize that your organization has different needs, approaches must be tailored to fit the stage of growth for the company, solutions should be fitted with you company's maturity and those elements help formulate your Transformation.
CONCEPTUALIZATION
Insight can be applied to various levels of a corporation and provides knowledge and understanding that can refocus a perception of an issue. Strategically, this could be the re-alignment with Suppliers, and interpretation of laws and regulations or applying new methodologies and processes to increase production. Again, insight provides how, when, where, who and why efficiencies can be produced and profitability be extracted.
A well thought out solution is based on best practices and best-in-class models to make a company more competitive, efficient and profitable. Strategic planning is the most effective management tool for controlling change and instilling transformation. External influencers often provoke obligatory modifications to your business model [i.e., laws, regulations, competition, globalization, de-regulation, etc.]. In some cases, change is slow and easy to digest. In others cases, such as the current energy crisis, dramatic and quick changes affect and impact your business and its organization. Proactive management anticipates this possibility and reflects that insight into their plans. An example could be the recognition of maturity models and what should be considered for the “next step” in transformation. Strategic planning is a mindset to embrace change for the benefits to your concern, but this mindset must conform to a framework in order to be repeatable and consistent.
Another key source of change is from internal changes in your business model. This may be due to internal refinements of processes, new strategies, product lines, linkage of strategies to new systems, or an acquisition that needs to integrated into the corporate structure. Dramatic changes in the external environment may also require modifications or enhancements of current processes [i.e., logistic strategies, objectives and goals may affect policies that are engaged in controlling distribution of goods, review of vendors and services, or even expense reimbursement from your Marketing and Sales personnel]. Business requirements will be drivers for transformation.
TRANSFORMATION
Influencers, either external or internal, provide change drivers that affect your efficiencies and productivity. This is often translated into decreases in various metrics such as these examples: delivery time, cycle time, cost of delivery to the customer, system response time, system availability, etc.
JBS offers customized services and solutions that address the client's environment; not inflexible services that the client must conform to make changes. Acknowledging the client's environmental constraints, desires and focus of the types of changes wanted and agreement on adaptability within the scope of the project are some examples of collaboration and communication that are linchpins to the process.
JBS also provides solutions by which a strategy is carried out; planned and ad hoc activities meant to deal with the demands of the moment, and to move from one milestone to other in pursuit of the overall goal(s). In an organization, top management or the board of directors decides strategy, and tactics are applied to the operations, by the department heads, for implementation by staff, the secondary managers and employees. Tactical solutions are based on short-term goals [a.k.a. tactical objectives] whose attainment moves an organization towards achieving its strategic or long-term goals. Business or tactical operations are those ongoing recurring activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders.
In addition, careful consideration should be given to staffing requirements. The identification, filtering, qualifying and contracting, sub-contracting, or 'internalizing' resource requirements due to growth, expansion of a competitive advantage or to support initiatives; whether required for management support or staff augmentation can be provided by supplemental services.
LEAN SIX SIGMA: A COMPLIMENT
Lean Six Sigma is a strategic transformation methodology to enhance your business environment. This is also true for process refinement in the innovation arena. From an innovation view point, Lean Six Sigma can be applied to current business processes that provide the underpinnings for current business needs and support innovation practices. From a newly created innovation environment, Lean Six Sigma can be an applied strategy to structure and support for innovation design, experimentation, proof of concept and final introduction to new products or services. It seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and variation in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods. Additionally, three distinct Lean Six Sigma approaches are available in constructing new processes. The ultimate objective and benefit of Lean Six Sigma is converting those causes of defects into tangible outcomes that affect: customer satisfaction, quality, profitability, productivity, performance, and efficiency.
REALIZATION
Creating a vision of your future state that fits your needs often takes the perception of the problem and then develops a strategic approach to create a solution based on imagination and out-of-box thinking. The largest wave of change exists today, due to two major influencers: limited energy resources and the "greening" or environmental concerns about our modern way of life and the methods we produce energy. On one hand we must deal with the energy crisis and reallocate the way we use current energies [oil vs. sustainable resources]. On the other hand we must also look at renewable alternate energy sources to augment our base to meet the energy needs of today and those of tomorrow. This will be a significant Transformation force for all businesses and governments.
To address these Transformation themes, the client's solution is based on three resources: people, ideas and technology and those resources are orchestrated to formulate the Transformation Roadmap. JBS puts you in control of the Transformation with a customized and collaborative approach that integrates the requirement into the solutions, molds the design, and generates the solutions that effectively harnesses and controls your implementation direction.
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Your visionary foundation is always in need of update and your horizons are always in need of expansion. We offer an array of talents, ideas and initiatives that reflect the current thinking in areas of External Influencers, Sustainability Issues and Out-of-the-box thinking. Feel free to browse our New Horizons pages that include: Influencers, Links to Think, Sustainability and many other economic, social and technological trends to watch.
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