Steady Improvement quickly grasped our ERP project and gained
the confidence, trust and understanding of stakeholders at every
level. They are able to speak with clarity to both sailors and
executives, helping them understand complex, unfamiliar issues,
and enrolling them in the process. Steady Improvement is delivering
a successful result on time and on budget, meeting deadlines
and milestones with no surprises.
Bruce Benn, COO
Alaska Tanker
Steady Improvement's Lean Leadership Program helped us consolidate
and coordinate our efforts across our entire US operations.
Now our continuous improvement initiatives in sales, engineering,
planning, production, finance and administration are all moving
towards consistent and measurable goals, and showing significant
results.
Scott Koch, CFO
Beall Corporation
Steady Improvement skillfully guided this corporation through
a process of identifying and implementing software to provide
a strategic advantage over our competition. Working with executive
leadership they developed a project plan, interviewed various
stake-holders, guided decision makers to build consensus, created
and implemented an action plan, assessed progress, and brought
the project in on time and on budget.
Lee Robinson, CFO
Bonar Plastics
Steady Improvements' deep understanding of Lean Enterprise
IT systems provided our team clarity in understanding our Lean
execution needs. Their quality approach provided excellent state
of the art guidance. We continue to look forward to working
with them to create the business case vision for lean execution
systems.
Rajesh Solanki
Director, Lean Six Sigma
Ingersoll Rand, Security Technologies
The combined expertise of Steady Improvement developed from
their diverse experience in employee development, manufacturing,
project management and software systems has been instrumental
in the successful implementation of an ERP system replacing
legacy systems that were over 20 years old in a company with
over 100 years of conservative culture.
John Gillam, former Director of Operations
Boyd Coffee Company
Steady Improvement helped us design, plan and implement our
Lean Office program for a campus of over 1,000 people in such
a way that provided a clean handoff to internal resources. Their
understanding of Lean at the tactical level combined with their
competence in the boardroom to ensure that our Kaizen activities
and measures align with our corporate objectives. Their skills
in leadership, facilitation, education, information systems
and governance have helped us build a sustainable foundation
that will create significant value for our customers and competitive
advantage for our enterprise.
Richard Carroll
VP Information Systems
Lean Program Executive Sponsor
Central City Concern is a large and diverse non-profit organization
serving the needs of Portland's homeless community. When I came
on board as the first central IT director for the organization,
Steady Improvement assessed our information system needs and
budget constraints, and helped us create an effective IT development
roadmap.
Jamie Meyers, IT Director
Central City Concern
Steady Improvement represents the highest quality of consultants
a business can work with to improve business operations as they
have an enormous tool box of practical management skills, a
strong appetite for positive change, and genuine concern for
the clients ability to learn, apply, and use the knowledge they
impart.
The SI team was very much the right team at that right time
to help a frustrated group of managers find practical and business
size correct methods, systems, and simple management tools to
establish a frame work for perpetual improvement.
They have a rich and practical experience in working with simple
to complex business issues and have a superb positive attitude
about creating a business culture that strives to improve everyday.
Ajeet Khalsa, Director of Operations
Golden Temple
Steady Improvement introduced us to lean manufacturing concepts
that we applied to our plant scheduling processes, resulting
in throughput increases of over 30%. Their presentations to
our leadership team helped us focus on the keys to increasing
productivity. Issues such as quick change-outs, reducing down
time and decreasing inventories became the goals of our organization
which helped us drive tangible improvements to our bottom line.
Brad Paris, Vice President of Supply Chain Operations
Harry's Fresh Foods
Steady Improvement has helped guide the development and implementation
of large and complex ERP, EDI, and CRM projects at Veris. As
consultants and team members they keep highly diverse teams
on schedule, while ensuring thorough discussion, analysis, planning
and implementation. I believe the success we have seen with
these projects is a direct result of SI’s ability, expertise,
and commitment.
Robert J. Witt, Controller
Veris Industries
Mike and Steve of Steady Improvement are the type of people
who look out for the well being of their client above all else.
I do not consider them just consultants; they are also excellent
mentors. I am amazed at their level of understanding of business
processes and the people that make them work. I would recommend
them to lead, manage, or be team members of any business project
or initiative that aims to improve processes and reduce costs.
(Comments following an EDI implementation and BI vendor selection
process.)
Travis Pierce, IT Operations Mgr
Warn Industries, Inc.
Over the past 18 months I’ve worked with Steady Improvement
on EDI, Web Store, Product Configurator, and ERP projects. I
have found the SI consultants to be excellent communicators,
experienced facilitators and team leaders, delivering beyond
expectations and within budget, and following up to ensure we
continue to utilize technology to its full capacity. Their consultants
interact well with all levels of the organization, from senior
management to IT technician, and their personalities and communication
style engage and value all. They have the valuable ability to
operate strategically at a fairly high level, as well as tactically
down in the details of a specific project.
James P. Fee Jr., Vice President, Portable Monitoring
Welch Allyn Monitoring