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Does Your Organization Have Strategic Latitude?
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 ResultsKatherine'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:
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