2. Does your business
• Need to cut costs or improve efficiency?
• Struggle with change?
• Require significant up-skilling of talent?
We can help
Fischer Advisors specializes in providing
distinctive operational and strategic
expertise for sustainable results
3. Services
LEAN performance assessments
•
1. LEAN Services & LEAN workshops (Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, 5S, SMED . . )
•
Manufacturing LEAN plant design (Green- and brown field)
•
LEAN product design (Tear down workshops, design to cost)
•
• Going beyond incremental change, Performance
2. Performance Transformations tackle all aspects of your organization
including the Operating System, Management Infrastructure
Transformations
and employee Mindsets, Behaviors and Culture
• Design, development and facilitation of LEAN Boot Camps and
3. Customized Corporate Academies that adhere to adult learning principles
and that address technical, managerial and interpersonal skills
training
• Coaching for key personnel on the shop floor
4. Leadership • Mentorship for senior executives
Development • Leadership interventions for the entire organization
4. What differentiates our approach Performance Transformation
At Fischer Advisors, we are not interested in small or Operating System
incremental changes. What we do instead is irreversibly
• The way physical assets are
transform your entire value stream. To accomplish this our
configured
approach centers around:
Customized Application of Lean Principles
Your situation is unique - and so are our Lean
OS
solutions as we relentlessly eliminate waste, reduce
variability and increase flexibility.
MI MB
Rigorous and Holistic Problem Solving
Performance is transformed when issues are solved
holistically. That’s why we not only address the Operating
System but also the Management Infrastructure and
employees Mindset’s and Behaviors. (see illustration to the
right) Management Mindsets & Behaviors
Infrastructure • The way employees
Thorough Capability Building
engage in the process
• How information is
We train your staff thoroughly to ensure that
provided and acted upon
solutions are not only sustained but also improved upon.
5. Meet Joachim Experience
Industries
Joachim is unique. With more than 15 years of
hands-on experience in Lean operations and
• Automotive & Assembly (New model introduction, BiW,
professional services, he knows his way around the
continuously variable transmissions, axles)
shop floor and the board room alike. He has
successfully applied Lean principles across a wide range • Transportation & Logistics (Aviation above and below
of industries. the wing, railroads, freight forwarding)
Prior to founding his own practice, Joachim spent • Primary resources (Coal and iron ore mining, oil
7 years with McKinsey & Company, most recently in the refining, steel)
role of a Lean Manufacturing Expert. His distinctive • Consumer Electronics (TV ‘s, computers)
problem solving skills combined with a deep passion for
• Military and Defense (Body armor)
sustainable change, leadership development and
capability building have earned him a reputation for • Food (Airline catering, infant formula, various
being an extraordinarily effective coach, counselor, and agricultural products)
thought partner to both frontline employees and C-level
• Energy (Power plants)
executives.
Besides being a trained cabinet maker, Joachim Functions
holds an Engineering degree from Rosenheim, Germany
• Strategic Management
and an MBA from UBC, Vancouver and CEIBS, Shanghai.
He lives with his wife and two boys in Foothill Ranch, • Operations Management
California and enjoys mountain biking and restoring
• Continuous Improvement
vintage cars when he is not helping clients to be more
• Supply Chain & Logistics
successful.
• Maintenance / MRO
• HR
6. Our Mission
To create superior and sustainable
solutions for our clients most pressing
operational and strategic issues
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