Phalanx Consulting takes great pride in the results delivered to our clients through the services we offer. Please review just some of the examples of worked performed by our dedicated consultants.
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LEAN
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Gain Competitive Advantage Through Inventory Reduction
Determined to maintain their reputation and position in the market place, senior management highlighted the need to evolve the organisation to meet the expectations of a new business environment. Their objective was to provide a tailored ‘just in time’ solution to meet customer requirements.
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Benefits of Value Stream Mapping
After 27 years, the current owners were seeking to optimise operations to prepare the business for sale. However driving lasting change while maintaining day-to-day operations proved difficult. Customer service issues began to surface, combining with increases in delivery errors and declining profits.
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Lean in Healthcare & Service
The client was a mid-sized manufacturer and supplier of healthcare solutions designed to fight disease states in seven major therapeutic areas including cardiovascular, neuroscience, gastrointestinal, infection, oncology, anaesthesia and respiratory.
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From Chaos to Order: Introducing 5S
A downturn in the market due to the global financial crisis saw sles value and volumes declining and many redundancies on the shop floor were required to stabilise the business and survive the crisis.
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Lean Manufacturing & Global Price Pressures
By remaining Australia’s geosynthetic specialist with local production capabilities, reducing margins due to global price sensitivities became an increasing risk. Challenges facing the business included:
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Workplace Organisation for a Real Competitive Advantage
Our client is a leading supplier of cutting tools for the woodworking industry. With a parent company located in Germany, the business operates centrally from Melbourne with support offices in Brisbane and New Zealand.
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Australian Manufacturer
Phalanx Consulting conducted and facilitated a full diagnostic review of the scheduling process through cross functional team workshops.
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Organisational Development & People Management
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Skills & Organisational Development
Over the past 12 months, the business has embarked on a managment re-structure to address issues of key role succession planning and strategy development.
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Government Department
Our approach was to undertake a needs analysis and internal evaluations surveys to identify the root cause of the team issues. The results were compiled and presented back to the Department leadership team to create a broad acceptance and facilitated solution development process.
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International Cosmetics Manufacturer
An initial review of the business was undertaken by Phalanx Consulting using our Strategic Business Profiler to ensure all issues faced were recognised.
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Upskilling to Upgrade Services
To maintain and grow the depth of services provided, this expanding IT business benefitted from a Government assisted skills development program to upskill their entire workforce.
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Sales & Marketing
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Market Diversification Leads to Growth
Identifying the need for a market diversification strategy, our client required the expertise of an external consultant to develop and execute a market entry plan outside of the automotive industry.
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Client wanting to increase Market Penetration and Sales Growth
Phalanx Consulting conducted a 2 day business analysis meeting with management and sales staff and facilitated a SWOT and GAP analysis.
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Strategic Planning & Business Development
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Skills & Organisational Development
Over the past 12 months, the business has embarked on a managment re-structure to address issues of key role succession planning and strategy development.
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Strategic Planning for Effective Business Development
Our client is a leading manufacturing and service business within the highly competitive print industry and they found themselves in a mature, slow growing but dramtically changing market.
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Planning for a Strategic Exit
Our first step was to conduct a Strategic Business Reiew Workshop that was custom designed to identify the specific weaknesses the business was experiencing.
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Mapping Out the Future
The objective is to continue growing the business and have the right people with the right competencies, systems and procedures imbedded throughout the business.
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Computer Services, Training and Support Company
Interviews with key staff were undertaken to assess personal views of the organisations structure, responsibilities, authority levels and workloads. Analysis of the position descriptions of key executive personnel was also completed.
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Leading Manufacturing and Service Business
A full business diagnostic review of the internal and external factors affecting the business was undertaken. This resulted in Phalanx facilitating the development of detailed objectives and capital, marketing and operational plans.