Companies across the industrial and manufacturing landscape face significant challenges. The need to reduce emissions, improve sustainability, grow the digital commerce channel, and adopt advanced technologies and practices add to an already packed agenda. Lotis Blue helps clients zero in on their strategy and align their organization design and talent to deliver profitable growth.
We’ve partnered with leading brands in the industrial and manufacturing industries, including:
Operational Agility for Manufacturing
Our industrial consulting team specializes in optimizing organizational structures to enhance operational efficiency and agility so manufacturers stay ahead. Our approach includes an operating model diagnostic and redesign, which aligns strategic vision with pragmatic execution. This method provides clarity on how and where work gets done, enabling manufacturing systems to respond swiftly to disruptions while supporting both immediate needs and long-term goals.
Operating Model Diagnostic
We start by establishing a fact base through a review of strategic documents, plant locations, and performance, interviewing stakeholders and analyzing the leadership culture. This phase culminates in developing a set of operating model design options, reviewed and approved by executive leaders.
Operating Model Design
Based on the diagnostic insights, we work with the leadership team to develop a detailed design roadmap. This includes prioritizing and sequencing changes such as decision rights, governance, leadership structures, and workforce composition. A clear implementation strategy is outlined to ensure that the new operating model is seamlessly integrated and aligned with long-term goals.
Optimizing Manufacturing Team Performance
In manufacturing, the effectiveness of teams from the executive office to front-line employees is crucial. For leadership roles, alignment on strategy and collaboration is essential for setting priorities, making the right decisions, and driving company results. For front-line employees, effective teamwork is vital for maintaining safety, quality, and meeting production goals. The highest performing manufacturing teams consist of leaders and employees that have aligned priorities, clear guidelines to govern decision-making, and healthy team dynamics.
Lotis Blue’s Focus, Mechanics, and Dynamics approach is used to support manufacturing leaders by combining data-driven assessment and candid dialogue to advance team performance.
Focus
Establishing a clear strategy and shared purpose, ensuring alignment and commitment to manufacturing goals, defining roles and accountabilities, and emphasizing both individual and shared accountability for results.
Mechanics
Implementing clear processes for managing production and support functions, establishing forums for decision-making, developing processes for resourcing, and measuring and reporting against objectives.
Dynamics
Promoting psychological safety and trust in a manufacturing organization by setting shared norms, encouraging collaboration and healthy conflict, and ensuring balanced participation. Feedback on team interactions strengthens cohesion and reinforces positive behaviors.
By using this approach, Lotis Blue helps manufacturing teams enhance their effectiveness, driving productivity improvement and achieving strategic objectives.
Retention Solutions for Manufacturing
Turnover in the manufacturing industry is a pressing issue. Employees face significant challenges, including rigorous physical demands, health and safety concerns, and limited schedule flexibility – all of which can impact their job satisfaction and increase turnover rates. These challenges make it difficult for manufacturing organizations to attract and retain top talent and maintain a stable workforce.
To address these retention issues, Lotis Blue offers specialized solutions designed to enhance both the employee value proposition (EVP) and employee engagement strategies. Our approach targets the core factors affecting employee satisfaction and retention, ensuring that organizations can keep their skilled workforce committed and motivated.
EVP Assessment
Our EVP assessment and design services focus on developing a compelling engagement strategy specifically for manufacturers. This involves evaluating key factors that make up the employee experience such as work-life balance, schedule flexibility, job security, physical job demands, and specific incentives designed to motivate frontline workers. These elements define the core of the EVP, which aligns talent strategy with HR strategy, ensuring consistency and cohesion across the organization.
Employee Engagement Strategies
Our employee engagement and experience strategy planning services start with a customized survey to assess employee experience, satisfaction, and organizational health. Our employee experience management platform then delivers immediate insights and actionable recommendations. Using these insights, we implement specific solutions grounded in behavioral science to enhance employee satisfaction, reduce turnover, and foster a more positive and productive work environment.
By addressing the root causes of turnover and applying targeted improvements grounded in data and behavioral science, Lotis Blue helps industrial and manufacturing organizations retain top talent, boost employee morale, and achieve better business outcomes.
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