An Introduction to Management Solutions International

People often want to know more about Management Solutions International, what we do and how we work with companies.  We often can give our inquirers a clearer picture by answering five key questions about ourselves.  Those questions are:

     “What do you do?”

     “How do you get the desired outcome?”

     “Why do people work with you?”

     “What do you focus on in your work?”

     “Who performs your work?”

     “What would people say if I asked them about you?”

Edge in the Marketplace

We work with manufacturing companies who want an edge in the marketplace, not just to maintain the status quo or troubleshoot an occasional problem.  We spend our time with companies who are looking to make significant improvements in the way they run their business.

Fresh
Approach

…and with decision makers (leaders) who want a Fresh approach to improving their business.  Rather than going for the latest technology or buzz-word of the month, we focus on the underlying business processes and the people who use them.  Our innovative, yet fundamental, approach allows you to achieve the outcomes you desire and require.

Workshops

We provide interactive education and participative Workshops as the catalyst to accomplish two key goals.  The first is to help your team develop a shared vision of success by identifying specific project objectives.  The second objective is to create the “buy-in” of how to go about accomplishing your objectives.  As an integral component of the workshop, we do this by formulating a plan of action that is specific to your people, your processes and your company.  The ‘consensus building’ process enrolls everyone in the dream and quickly turns the entire group into focused doers who have a stake in the result.  It is important to note that in order to effectively alter behavior, one needs to change attitudes and in order to positively modify attitudes, you need start by changing an individual’s basic assumptions (paradigms).

One-on-One Coaching

We Coach and teach your people, both one-on-one and in project teams to help them become the very best they can be by keeping them on-track and on-target.  The result is an organization heading in the direction of becoming the very best it can be too.

Proven
Tools

We provide a Proven project planning and monitoring methodology, team techniques and Hoshin based quality management Tools.  These tools will energize your teams, keep them focused and ensure your company’s most important ambitions result in desired and profitable achievements.

Knowledge

We provide you with what you need to know to, prioritize and implement the improvements that will streamline the operation, grow the business, improve the bottom line, beat the pants off the competition and help you to remain strong for years to come.

Skills

We will identify and help your people develop certain Skills and capabilities in two specific areas that are critical to their success, both from an individual’s viewpoint as well as from an owner’s perspective, to help them become better leaders.   First we will help them think creatively in brainstorming issues and possible solutions, and then coach the team to act as one cohesive unit in implementation.  Your people will become a never-ending fountain of fresh ideas that will nourish a culture of continuous improvement long after the project is complete.  Secondly we will help you improve your organizational capability by working with your managers to help them become better leaders, leaders who are able to mobilize and energize the intellectual and creative resources of people at all levels of the company.

Improved Relationships

We will coach your people to perform at their very best by showing them how to build better Relationships with each other, how to work more effectively in teams and how to achieve exciting results that cross departmental boundaries without a hitch.

Business
Model(s)

In the true spirit of “Beginning with the end in mind,” we provide proven templates or Business Models, for successful and robust cross-functional business processes. These models will expedite determining the vision of success as well as the appropriate strategies for achieving it.  With the right models in place, everyone can be immediately engaged in making improvements instead of wrestling with where to start and what to do.  Instead of endless hours in the mode of “What”, “Why” and “How”, you will be able to get on with the “Doing” from the outset.

Strategy

The Strategy of the most successful organizations include, developing two very fundamental qualities.  We will coach your people to create an improvement strategy for your company that will result in both remarkable stability and at the same time, an amazing flexibility to allow you to shift direction quickly to meet customers’ changing requirements.  It is the sequence that is key here.  First an organization must become stable, where the routine happens routinely.  The newfound stability then can provide the foundation for flexibility.  The payoff is a company that handles exceptions and last minute adjustments with ease, dexterity and of course, profitably.

Direction

We will guide you through a process of improvement that will make sure you are heading in the right Directions, working on the most important things first and getting the results you need.  The methodology will be one that you can use again and again to keep you focused and on track.  The same process will also allow an individual project team insure that they are working on the most important tasks and activities in the best sequence.

Accountability

In line with the Deming philosophy of “plan, do check and act,” we will help you instill individual and team Accountability and responsibility for results.  This is accomplished by employing a set of fundamental measurements to gauge your progress in the areas essential to your company performing at its best.  We call that Peak Performance.  We will also guide your company through “what to measure and how to measure it” and then most importantly, teach you a diagnostic process of review, each day, each week and each month.  Performance measurement will be a constructive and value-added part of the company culture and a fundamental driver of the appropriate continuous improvement behaviors throughout your business.