Continuous Improvement

Prophet One’s focus is to help clients increase shareholder value by developing high-performance teams, improving profitability and accelerating growth. We do this by engaging organizations in a business transformation process that moves them through the critical stages of change.

Lean Principles

Lean Principles (or Lean Manufacturing, or simply Lean) can best be described as the relentless pursuit, identification, and elimination of waste in all business processes. Business processes over time tend to become marbled with inefficiencies.

Prophet One helps clients at many stages of the Lean Transformation. From executive and project team education, to unique lean simulations, to Kaizen event facilitation all the way through implementation, Prophet One can help. Prophet One is flexible in our engagement models, ranging from fixed fee deliverable-based projects to as-needed hourly-based Lean Sensei’s.

Six Sigma

Six Sigma is an extremely effective toolset for systematically attacking the highest priority production and support/functional problems within an organization. A goal of Six Sigma is to reduce defects and variation within a work process. It is not, however, the best tool to apply to every problem. Six Sigma requires a significant investment in up-front training, time and people to carry out the projects, and leadership commitment to project reviews. Some problems may not require Six Sigma’s highly intensive methodology. Effective leaders separate the problems that deserve a Six Sigma approach from those requiring a different methodology.

Balanced Scorecard

Today’s Balanced Scorecard is a tool that derives from the principles in the original Baldrige Criteria of 1988. Specifically, Prophet One assists client leadership teams to take a balanced look at key results measures of an organization rather than rely too much on financial measures, which only provide an historical look at organizational performance. Accordingly, the basis for this tool is that business results are integrated – that leaders should not view one measure in isolation without acknowledging the relation to other results. A Balanced Scorecard looks at four “perspectives” of the business:

Financial: “To succeed financially, how should we appear to our shareholders?
Customer: “To achieve our vision, how should we appear to our customers?”
Internal Business Processes: “To satisfy our shareholders and customers, at what business processes must we excel?”
Learning and Growth: “To achieve our vision, how will we sustain our ability to change and improve?

Objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives are developed for each of the identified perspectives.

Program / Project Management

Prophet One’s program / project management solutions benefits our clients in many different ways. Program Management Office design and implementation, for example, can be a major transformation for our clients. Prophet One’s experienced consultants help make this organizational change a reality. Additionally, Prophet One’s certified Project Management Professionals (PMP’s) assist our clients to structure and deliver the project’s intended results. Prophet One’s professionals also can rescue existing projects that have spiraled out of control.