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Practice Leader: Ralph Dieckmann
Those who claim the era of industrialization is at end simply have not been in a progressive manufacturing environment, one enabled by cellular, chip or digital technologies. It's the manufacturers, armed with the latest in information technologies, who buzz with hard-won, first-hand, knowledge about concepts such as quality, self-directed work teams, open-book management, quick response and high levels of product customization.
More than ever manufacturers need creative, risk-taking leadership to cyber-engineer their growth and their profitability. Today's successful manufacturers rely on executives who have designed and led TQP, then sustained and improved it; executives who have successfully redesigned processes, resulting in time compression, waste reduction, productivity increases and better customer service. Technologically astute, they are able to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing systems -- ones which enhance responsiveness and decision-making, reduce inventory, and positively impact productivity and/or quality. The manufacturing leader of today has successfully introduced new products with high quality-the-first-time and shortened time-to-market.
Companies which chose to move from reengineering -- fixing -- to cyber-engineering -- leading -- may find that external recruiting can be an effective way to upgrade management strength.
The New Career Makers, a book ranking the best search consultants in North America, ranked our firm as fourth in the nation in recruiting senior managers for the "Manufacturing/Productions/Operations" sector. We were also selected by client companies and our peers as third on behalf of our work for fabricated metal products manufacturers, and tenth in working with electrical/electrical machinery manufacturers.
The firm's principals have conducted engagements ranging from Fortune 500 organizations to small privately held companies. Representative of manufacturers and distributors we've served are:
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