Resource Productivity

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Weather the Storm – Position for Recovery

In trying economic times, companies are challenged for business survival. And while these times are the toughest, visionary business leaders – optimists by nature – see each challenge as an opportunity. The good news in today’s climate is twofold. One, is that all your competitors are challenged, so it is a level playing field. And two is that like other recessions, the economy will at some point return to growth.

This is the type of environment where those who weather the storm most effectively will be best positioned for the recovery and be rewarded accordingly. Assess how the threat of this recession can help you to streamline your business. Are you making it ready to thrive when the economy eventually picks up?

If you right-size and manage your business well during this period, it can not only survive, but even thrive in a broad range of economic conditions while maximizing growth potential and financial results.

The Thomas Group Approach

Thomas Group has been helping company’s weather economic storms for 30 years. Such difficult initiatives require facilitation services and the perspective of an experienced and objective third party that can take on some of the implementation management can not. We specialize in enabling the necessary program changes that adapt your company to current as well as future business conditions.

Our resource productivity methodology is uniquely capable of helping companies achieve operational efficiency in great speed. It enables clients to:

  • Satisfy lower demand for products and services with the fewest and most productive capital and human resources
  • Generate cash flow from a combination of cost savings and longer-term process improvement
  • Create a new business model that is adaptive, modular and virtually scalable, allowing rapid adjustments in response to improvements in demand

Deliverables for Thomas Group’s resource productivity approach include:

  • Validated demand forecasts for 30, 60, 90, 180, and 360 days
  • Forecasted, modeled, and analyzed sources and uses of cash
  • Workforce assessment with headcount reduction recommendations
  • A project and product portfolio optimization plan
  • A fixed and variable cost analysis
  • An outsourcing analysis

Critical success factors include:

  • We work from executive management sponsorship
  • We engage with your executive team to make mutual broad reaching decision about what is in/what is out of consideration
  • We employ high-level value stream mapping approach to reconstruct core processes
    • Order to cash process
    • Manufacturing capacity
  • We get immediate access to all managers who are responsible for functional support
  • We implement cash flows releasing decision on a day -to-day basis

With proper planning and resource optimization, virtually any company can survive recessionary periods over a short-term, recession efficiency business phase. Business leaders that remain positive and focused will see their companies recovering from the current economic crisis, more so than ever imagined possible.