Between our team members, there has been detailed, hands-on work with approximately 200 companies, in roles ranging from short, intensive projects, to senior executive leadership with major responsibilities, such as:
· Arn Lahde, for example, was VP at Parsons, a global construction company, and led the design and construction of 2 Disney theme parts – Euro Disney, and Disney Japan.
· Paul Deis lead a very early, very successful Lean implementation while VP at Raypak, Inc., as well as others.
On any PROACTION project, you are assured of having only top-notch, senior level, seasoned professionals assigned to your project. Besides our core Team members, whom you can read more about on the Team page, we also have a large and capable network of experts in a variety of fields that we are able to bring into a project requiring unique skills and expertise.
As a result, we can assign who is best for a project, not just who we have on the payroll, which is almost always the case with consulting firms having an in-house staff of consultants. Paul Deis, our CEO, faced this situation while a Manager at Deloitte & Touche. The first task is to keep consultants on the payroll busy, billable, of operational and financial necessity. We do not have that conflict – so we focus entirely on what is needed for success on the project we perform for you.
Industries – we have completed hundreds of projects and assignments in a very wide range of business sectors, operational styles, often with very different success drivers. Examples:
- Manufacturing – consumer products, electronics, complex capital equipment, government and aerospace & defense contractors (FAR regulated) at every level (prime contractors, tier 2 and 3 suppliers), high volume disposable products, medical device and product manufacturing (FDA regulated), marine products, agricultural products, biotech, appliances, food products and many others. Business styles includes what is termed make to stock, make to order, configure to order, and variants of these and others.
- Supply Chain intensive – global product distribution, US government military support and supply; global construction and supply for “mega projects,” full outsourced manufacturing with global work in process between multiple countries, including border crossings, 3PLs, customs, sea/air/land logistics, duty-drawback and other aspects.
- Organization Planning and Recruitment – we have performed highly specialized projects involving specifying key leadership and management positions, and then finding the best individuals to fill these positions. Recent example was a large project for Kellogg Brown & Root, to grow the overall supply chain organization from 300 to nearly 2,000 people in about 18 months, where more than 20 director and above level senior professionals were recruited, as well as over 60 senior subcontract management professionals. While we are not, and never have been, a full-time recruiting firm, this skill is an outgrowth of out ability to find and staff projects with unusual, critical skill requirements in a short time period.
- Construction – these have included both very large “mega” projects and companies, as well as commercial facility construction, such as Parsons and Disney.”
- Engineering intensive – many companies, while delivering a product, have as their major offering highly skilled, specialized engineering. We call these companies, “engineer to order” because the product is almost an afterthought, compared to the amount, and cost, of engineering work brought to bear on the customer’s objectives.
- Health care – health insurance, including enrollment and claims processing, as well as medical clinic operations and billing services.
- Enterprise Software – we have both hands-on, and advisory experience in this area, both in considerable depth, including:
- Leadership - Our CEO, Paul Deis, ran an ERP software company for 5 years, supporting customers with unique business models.
- Leading edge contribution - PROACTION’s founder, George Miller, was a key leader at Western Data System, and forged the fundamental specification for what became Contract / Project oriented ERP systems that meet US government (FAR) requirements.
- Major ERP providers – marketing strategy, product design advisory projects. These companies included IBM, what is now Glovia, Cincom, Western Data Systems (now Manugistics) and others.
- Detailed system design – besides detailed design support for unique and customized functionality areas, we have also performed in one case, a complete design for a full ERP system, with over 1,000 windows. The specifications were used to drive a concurrent design, development and implementation project that was ultimately quite successful.
- Selections – members of the PROACTION Team have completed numerous Enterprise software selection projects, involving determining key requirements, a long list of candidates, narrowing to a short list, final selection and contract negotiation, as well as implementation preparation. A Best Practice in this area is our use of the SoftSelect methodology, which is superior to all other available methods.
Types of Projects – the span and range of projects performed by the PROACTION team makes brief summarization difficult. We have functioned at every level of organizations, including interim senior management, performed due diligence across entire organizations, performed major IT-related projects, including selections of major Enterprise software systems, as well as large-scale implementation projects, have provided focused expertise on compliance with FAR, FDA, ISO-9001, and dozens of others. Business management consultants, business speakers, project management, business management, business process improvement, business support services.
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