2020 has been a tough year, many companies are struggling to keep the doors open while others are trying to keep up with increased demand.
What is the way forward?
Optima Associates has a team of professionals ready to help you assess your business and develop a growth plan for 2021 and address YOUR critical issues.
Past Performance
Clearly understand past performance with Optima's world-class survey.
Opportunity
Award-winning consultants will identify opportunities to improve your business.
STRATEGy
Each survey comes with actionable layout strategies to increase performance.
We've lived it.
We've implemented it.
We've grown it and sustained it.
Our team of continuous improvement professionals brings a wealth of problem-solving experience to help our clients scale to be more responsive to their customers’ needs. We work with all types of organizations and industries – from Fortune 500 companies to regional businesses in manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, education and government.
Optima’s Leaders Roundtable group provides Executive CI Leaders an opportunity to meet other CI Leaders and learn from one another. Members of each Roundtable group are from non-competing organizations who have been on the Continuous Improvement journey and are willing to share their successes and their struggles along the way. Discussions help members to determine strengths and weaknesses in their organization’s CI journey and to gauge where their organization is at on the CI journey. Members not only get the chance to share their knowledge and experience, but also get to “sharpen the saw” by benefiting from others’ knowledge and experience. Roundtable groups meet quarterly.
Help CI leaders of multi-site operations share best practices
Develop strategies for driving improvement initiatives in a global organization from a staff position
Uncover best practices for building a multi-site deployment team
Discover strategies to ensure the right CI resources have a seat at the table
Build a network of other companies to share learnings outside of CI (HR, Product Development, Supply Chain, etc.)
The Paradigm President’s Group in MN and the Paradigm Group in ND were designed to foster strong relationships between our members and to unlock the value of real-world best practices. We meet monthly for ½ day at a member site and this is an opportunity for each member to benchmark the best practices (and the not so best practices) of other companies. Members, in utmost confidentiality, discuss their successes and failures and ask their fellow members for advice and analysis.
A “think-tank” where everyone means business and meets to discuss leadership, strategic issues, key initiatives, major problems, how to engage and develop people and more
Address the issues that will help to grow your business and accelerate the rate of transformation
Learn from the mistakes of others
Experience real-life case studies on how to improve a business
Help one another to create profitable organizations
Best practice sharing events in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Member-driven events in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Special Concierge service to help ensure your CI success
Tours, feedback sessions and roundtable discussions
Personalized Concierge service
Participate in special interest groups – HR and Safety
Free and member-discounted learning events
Special invitations to industry leaders speaking and workshop events
Explore what others are doing with CI
Experience a collaborative learning environment
Solve problems and share perspectives
Discuss best practices and implementation ideas
Share continuous improvement tools and techniques
Sustain continuous improvement initiatives
Gain a ‘new set of eyes’ in looking at your organization
Experience best practices in action
Become more observant in your operation
Discover how to engage your team in continuous improvement culture
Receive priceless open and honest feedback from peer members
Discuss and share CI do’s and don’ts
Gain invaluable perspectives and expand your knowledge
Participate in personalized tours of other facilities
Build relationships with other continuous improvement leaders
Expand your knowledge through networking with others on a CI journey
Get CI ‘how-to’ tips from those with implementation experience
The Lean Product Development Network was launched to introduce lean and continuous improvement methodologies and concepts into the product development process and to provide a networking group to assist in the transformation. Members determine the events, discussion topics and host companies.
Discounted individual and group rates at Special Interest Group Events
Benchmarking visits
Networking with local industry and concept leaders
Experience real-life case studies on how to improve a business
Interaction with thought leaders like Ron Mascitelli, Steve Stucky and Norbert Majerus
