Creating a Passion for Perfection
What is Excellence ?
On the path to perfection you need to be excellent. We help companies gain a crucial competitive edge through integration of people, processes and tools into a single cohesive organisation focussed on a clear vision and strategy, which is effectively executed.
Excellence is doing better than any other company on all dimensions on which a company operates - whether it is managing relationships with customers, or suppliers, having excellent foundation data, having systems that are fully integrated without excessive dependence on spreadsheets.
We have a business excellence assessment document which you can obtain from this website, that will define what excellence looks like. See www.delospartnership.com/innovation/books.htm#assess
Getting there requires a company to follow the path of control, continuous improvement, and then becoming World Class.
What we do to help
Our clients largely come from the manufacturing sector in Europe and the USA, but we have links to the Far East and Australia. They want to improve their ability to give the customer what they want and when they want it with lower total cost. To do this they change systems, organisations, processes and people. Our experience is that the most difficult aspect in the pursuit of excellence is to change habits and attitudes - the key ingredient to change. Our way is to help develop a vision and strategy, and support this with integrated processes and systems and integrated behaviours through education - in its widest sense.
We work through facilitation and workshops to enable the people in an organisation to engage in the process of transformation. Education is about changing habits and mind sets.
In support of this we provide three I's :
Insight
Through our experience in our working lives, and in working with a number of companies, we can bring to you a new perspective on you or your organisation. This will enable you better to address the issues that you face, and bring about positive and effective change.
Innovation
We are continuously reviewing what we do, the operating environment, and how this impacts our clients. Hence, we will continuously bring new ideas to clients, as clients will bring new ideas to us.. Thus we will help develop ideas like "Value Stream Management" or "Performance Measurement". We will develop new courses. We will also work with clients to help them bring about new ideas, and new ways of working.
Inspiration
Above all, we want our clients to feel inspired to do things differently as a result of any of our activities or interactions with them. For example, if we carry out a workshop we want clients to come away having gained an insight into new ways of doing things and understand how other people think and act in order make sustainable changes happen within their organisation that will positively impact both their personal and teams’ behaviour. A passion for perfection will help strive to make everything better every day!.
Here is an inspirational quote from a client 4 years on from the initial engagement that "says it all" about their development of our Integrated Enterprise Leadership [IEL] "model" :
"As part of the IEL process we are doing detailed financial models to help decide what our path forward should be for the next 3-5 years by product line and manufacturing site. It is amazing the visibility we are gaining and just overall better understanding of our business. We seem to be on the right path to grow the business.
I have to thank you for your training, insight and overall guidance. "
Assessment
Why not see how excellent your company is by filling in our one-page assessment. If you score less than 11 points in this simple Yes/No Questionnaire, then get in contact with us !
For a more detailed assessments, see our section on assessment. Click here.
"Excellence is an art won by education and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle, Greek Philosopher.
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."
- Chinese Proverb