SERVICES
Murray Lynn provides coaching, consulting, research and facilitation services focused around these areas critical to your change sucess:
Planning & Review, Management System Utilization, Accountability, and Business & Leadership Skills.
SERVICE STORIES
Improving Planning to Refocus the Organization in Clean Tech
This business had started from a university research project to become an R&D leader in the clean tech space for the automotive industry. They needed to make the switch from an exploratory model to the delivery focus of Product Development.
One critical project required the team to adapt their engine to work with an external supplier’s transmission. The plan was strengthened through a facilitated session that allowed the team to co-ordinate activities across functions and organizations, challenge critical path, identify and seize opportunities, and mitigate risk. The result:
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Schedule reduced from 12 to 7 months.
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Development Costs reduced by $450k from $1million.
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Fleet supply contracts secured valued at $10million + based on the integration of these 2 technologies
Changing Systems Usage to Lower Costs on an Aerospace Factory Floor
A major aerospace company was ramping up production for it's latest commercial airliner. It had significant throughput challenges that could cause it to shut-down the production line; a $1billion+ risk.
To improve the schedule performance and reduce costs, it was critical to change how their systems were used. Measurement systems were simplified and integrated into their management systems to increase focus on quality and find opportunities to increase throughput and reduce cost. The results:
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33% reduction in targeted rework and a 70% improvement in throughput.
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25% reduction in total hours equivalent to a $30million+ saving
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Production line shutdown avoided.
Creating Accountability to Turn Around New Construction in a Shipyard
A West-coast shipyard had two businesses, new construction and repair. After some challenging projects, they needed to get back to delivering their new construction projects on-time and on-budget.
Impacting the results was a culture of blame and finger-pointing in their bi-weekly project review. A structure for this meeting was developed to create openness and ownership. The results:
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On-time delivery producing happy customers & late delivery penalty avoidance.
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$3 million+ in improved cost performance on a per project basis.
Strengthening Leadership to find Big Opportunities in Nuclear Power
A 6-reactor Nuclear Power Plant needed to improve productivity in their maintenance departments to reduce a critical maintenance backlog and avoid reactor shutdowns at a loss of $1.5 million a day.
A front-line manager was being coached how to engage his team and listen effectively in order to find improvement opportunities. When he was charged with a critical maintenance job to repair the plant’s lightening strike protection system, he involved some of his crew in the pre-work walk down. A new worker questioned the need for scaffolding and suggested a different approach based on his previous experience. The manager listened. The result:
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$1 million in scaffolding costs saved
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By avoiding the use of scaffolding, the repair work was completed in 3 weeks versus an original plan of 4 months.
SERVICE CUSTOMIZATION
Every engagement is customized to your needs. No two clients are the same so neither should the service be from their consultant. I will provide a mix of service based on your needs.
For more insight into these and other stories and to discuss how we can create your own story
Ask me about my value based pricing.