Today’s competitive environment is increasingly intense and challenging. Shareholders demand faster results with fewer resources. Operations are much more complex and leaders are able to exercise less command and control from the c-suite. At the same time, people have more tools, information and customer insight at their disposal.

SSA & Company helps companies execute processes more efficiently and effectively:  transforming business through smarter process.  This is an evolution from our historical approach, which was focused solely on knowledge transfer through Lean Six Sigma training and process improvement mentoring.  Our new business process consulting approach leverages our Lean Six Sigma legacy, but enables us to look more broadly at our client’s strategy and business process challenges to identify ways in which SSA & Company can help them address their most critical business issues.

SSA & Company has a distinctive service model, refined in partnership with our clients over many years, that combines operations and process consulting with associate training and engagement.  This unique blend of capabilities delivers significant value for our clients:

• Operations and process consulting expertise allows SSA & Company to directly align strategy with business process – tying corporate goals to very specific process improvement projects and activities.  Best of all, our operations and process consulting engagements deliver quantifiable results in as little as 90 days and typically yield a 5-10x return on investment.

• Process improvement training (including Lean and Six Sigma) ensures that the continuous improvement efforts we start are sustained long after we leave.  By creating clear alignment between corporate goals and individual activity, and teaching individuals how to leverage and use process improvement tools and techniques, we embed a mindset of continuous improvement in your organization.  In addition, because our training curriculum requires individuals to conduct real-life projects, clients typically achieve financial benefits of more than 10x their training investment.

Furthermore, SSA & Company continues to leverage its partnerships and relationships with sister companies to continually enhance and improve upon its operations consulting practice:

• G100 –  Our relationship with the G100 allows us to see, on a real-time basis, the key challenges and opportunities F500 CEOs face.  The perspective we gain from the G100 has helped us shape our operations consulting practice (e.g., our 90-day SPM cycle came directly out of G100 discussions) and will continue to do so in the future.

• Vance Street –  Few operations consulting firms have as strong a tie to the private equity community as SSA & Company.  We continue to work with Vance Street to enhance our service offerings and create leading-edge business assessments to help deliver significant and lasting results for our clients.

• High Lantern Group – A reputation management firm,HLG focuses on strategic positioning for businesses, brands, and individual leaders by shaping the environment in which they operate

• Next Generation Leadership – A new concept in executive development, NGL’s curriculum is tailored by industry veterans to meet the needs of today’s top companies.