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