SBA Lean Process & Efficiency Expertise

Lean Operations

Expenses are the biggest focus in today’s Executive Budgetary Forecasting Focus. In order to reduce the work burden, enhance expense controls, and raise overall profitability of our clients, Schwartz Business Advisors will work together with the top executives and local “on the ground resources” to find the most efficiency, “lean”, operating procedures and ensure that they are not only implemented, but understood and enhance not just profitability, but the quality of life of the employees involved. 

This Lean Process Strategy involves both a short term and long-term focus, which is another area that most large corporations struggle with. Facing pressure from investors to drive profits upwards, and cut costs, sometimes the short-term increase in cost is not an option they will consider, however should they proceed with it, they will increase profits in the long term 10x over.

An example where SBA has noticed that most companies in recent years are struggling to understand is the concept of employee engagement. Executives feel that cutting costs, removing benefits, will overall lower the overhead and thus raise profits. However, recent studies of this have shown that it is quite the opposite. Providing increased employee incentives, sometimes as small as taking a 1 hour break from work each day to rest, or providing a weekly breakfast on Fridays, creates employee loyalty, stronger engagement in their work, and overall increased productivity when performing the tasks at hand. At SBA, we encourage our clients to do more of these items as they have proven time and time again that an engaged employee will provide more value and efficiency to a client then looking purely at the items financially.