Does Your Organization Have Strategic Latitude?

Katherine Radeka helps her clients develop greater strategic latitude: the freedom to take decisive action to maximize customer and shareowner value.

Lean strategy development and deployment, lean technology development, lean product development and lean operations all work synergistically to provide the company with greater freedom to act: cash is not tied up in inventory or warranty claims, executives can spend more of their time leading and less time managing, product developers can respond to changes in customer demand much more rapidly.

Of all the benefits of lean, this is one of the least understood. In the past year, it became the most important, as companies with lean initiatives to lower cost found that they had strategic options that their peers did not have, including the ability to respond to dramatic drops in customer demand fast enough to minimize the damage to their companies.

Today, Katherine focuses her client work on the two areas that lead to the biggest increases in Strategic Latitude: strategy development and deployment, and new technology development.

Typical Client Results

Katherine's clients achieve gains in speed, quality and cost - in a way that's optimized to deliver the most important results first. They have delivered increased value to the business in these ways:

• Greater strategic latitude, and greater capacity to steer the company through uncertainty.
• Faster time to market for innovations
• Higher ROI from product development portfolios
• Strategic vision and rapid strategic deployment
• Increased ability to leverage and reuse knowledge across the enterprise

Client Endorsements

"Katherine has helped us develop key examples of lean success which demonstrate our commitment and has supported us to the point where we are able to sustain the momentum ourselves going forward."

“I appreciate Katherine’s mix of depth of knowledge and approachability. . .she’s great at matching your situation against the latest knowledge about the things that work in practice.”

-- Rich Gildersleeve, Senior VP, Global R&D, DJO, Inc.

“I want to take this opportunity to thank Katherine for her leadership . . .I implemented each of the recommendations as she suggested and today, I see a very effective and productive team as a result."

-- Greg Hopton, President, AVL North America