Optimisation of available specialists’ time in outpatients clinics in an NHS trust.
Discovered large potential revenue losses, and fixed these by better utilisation of clinicians’ hours. Project cost under £100K, annualised project income over £200K.

Analysis of cost reduction potential in chocolate factories.
One-week, one-man effort resulted in well-received report (in English) & presentation (in Russian) plus project proposal. Moved to 2 other factories; after analysis all 3 management teams agreed to improvement programs.

Analysis of the Vilnius logistics department of a multinational trade & technology company. Documented throughput time potential through process and management system upgrading.

Co-trainer on Lean Six Sigma seminar and quickscan of assembly plant.
Local senior management originally only wanted LSS certification for managers to please Brazilian headquarters. We got them enthousiastic for the exercise, and did a mini-analysis for them.

Analysis in healthcare.
Did 12 observations and 8 process & system brown papers in 3 weeks, while correcting work of team members, project was sold.

Optimisation of processes and management systems at the maintenance organisation of a large steel factory.

Capacity analysis of dairy processing plant in the Netherlands.
A 35 M€ investment was planned to increase capacity. We documented that a similar increase was possible through minor technical adaptations and implementing upgraded management tools and skills.

Interim general manager of two mines and two factories.
Further restructured the company and kept it profitable during world financial crisis (sales dropped 50% October to November 2008), increasing salaries by 20%, receiving prize for “best cooperation with trade union 2009” while reducing staff from 372 to 322. Stabilised production and upgraded quality so that export to Western Europe became possible. Expanded product line and restructured client portfolio. Oversaw 12 M€ investment program. Trained, coached and handed over to local management after eighteen months.

Project manager of an analysis in a St Petersburg beer brewery (Russia), analyst/consultant at a soap factory in the Netherlands, consultant at an analysis of an administrative department in Chicago. Documented 200 K$ improvement potential in Accounts Payable department. Installed management system on the factory floor.

Mostly projects for cost reduction at a road building company, starting as project manager. Also project management and support on health care projects and analyses.
Sold five follow-up projects, had to take over as trouble shooter at three of them. Finally managing several projects simultanously. One regional director stated: “After your project, costs were structurally lowered so I was able to offer at significantly lower price levels, winning a tender for a 65 MIO euro project”. Managed teams of up to 20 (internal/external) consultants while responsible for programmes involving hundreds of employees. On one project prepared and managed implementation of management tools & skills for 105 supervisors and managers.