Strategic Fitness

Transformation, Alignment and Optimization

FLAME TAO Knoware Pvt. Ltd.

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Presentation Structure
About FLAME TAO Knoware Preamble: the basic framework Defining Value The offering Summary
The Parable of the Magnet The FLAME TAO Knoware Team

About FLAME TAO Knoware

FLAME TAO vision of the organisation
Business Alignment is a function of Organisational Alignment and Business Organisational Strategy Organisational Alignment is a function of Role Alignment and Organisation Design

FLAME TAO Knoware Mission

Be a partner in creating organisations where every member creates value, feels valued and

continuously enhances the organizational capability to engage with its context in ways that inspires all its stake holders

Role Alignment is a function of Personal Alignment and Role & Task Design Personal Alignment is a function of Identity and Life Role

About FLAME TAO Knoware

Illustrative Client List TCS Infosys Technologies Sterling Commerce Covansys Sun Microsystem Yuken India Shahi Exports EPCOS Orient Fashions ITC Ltd BPL String Information Services TAFE On Mobile TATA Teleservices TI Murugappa Group SAE Claris Lifesciences Shasun Chemicals & Drugs CavinKare

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Sample Actual Results

Financial Services Machine Tools Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Food Agro Software Services Automotive Apparels
Transformation People Throughput time Value Adding Ratio Accelerated change through FLAME TAO Powerful team orientation Cutting C to C time by 60% +500%

Inventory
Work-in-Progress Quality (Rejects) Overall Equipment Effectiveness Process Routing

3 turns to 14 turns
Weeks to days to hours >20% to <.5% on to ppm +40% >1000 Feet to <20 Feet

Factory Floor Space

New Product Development

>50% Reduction
On time launch to market

Preamble
Alignment, Attunement and Attention
Structure / VOS Business World
MVA / CFROI/RSTR

Internal Realities / VOT Technology world

EVA/ Knowledge Capital / QCD

3 3 4 3 3

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External Realities / VOC Market world

CVA/ Market Share/ CSI

4: Alignment flow and Institutional practice 3: Problem solving and Evolving practice 2: Insight and stress 1: Inaccessible Potentials

Individuals / VOE Employee world

OVA/ Social Capital / ESI
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Preamble
Alignment, Attunement and Attention
The HR / OD Challenge
Creating order & rhythm in the centrifugal and centripetal movements of the 4 zones
2 3 2 1 VOC

VOS 1 2 VOT 1 2 3 3 4 3 1

Zone 1: Exploration; Research; Insight; Dream and Discovery Energy Potential. Zone 2: Dialogue; Experimentation; Practice; Personal mastery; Mental models; Organisational EQ; Coherence and Convergence. Energy source. Zone 3: Problem identification; Problem solving; SEDAC; 6 Sigma; Team Learning; Review and Recalibration. Energy channels. Zone 4: Converting ; Optimising; Delighting; Kaizen; Team work; Control and Co-ordination. Energy Deployment.
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Horizontal Alignment
The Process of Creating Value

VOE

Vertical Attunement
The Energy for Creating Value

Defining Strategic Fitness

Visible Value offerings

Value Stream

Zone 3 & 4 Align and optimise Zone 2 & 3 Design and align

Sustained Operational Excellence through Value Addition

Sustained Business Excellence through Value Creation

Invisible Source of Value

Value Potential

Zone 1 & 2 Dream and design

Sustained Business Excellence through Value Creation

Exploring Value Creation Response Capabilities created in the organisation through appropriate organisation design (EVA-MVA)
Is the Organization Responsive to emerging business dynamics?
Attunement and Alignment

Culture of Commitment Individuals Aligned to Strategy Behaviour Attuned to Culture Strategic performance monitoring practices & tactical correction Performance Management as a planning process Good practices for Conflict Resolution Team Learning and Camp

Strategising as a process

Synergy through Teamwork

Sustained Business Excellence through Value Creation

Is the Organization anticipating Change?
Converging Mental Models
Shared Vision Coherent strategy Leadership

Is the Organization a Learning Organization?

Harnessing Tacit Knowledge
Culture of Dialogue Shared expertise Team-Oriented Problem Solving

Employee involvement
A culture of constant improvement A culture of innovation
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Sustained Business Excellence through Value Creation

Consulting Approach Partnering Organizations in managing transition
Orienting the organization to be anchored in the future and shape the present
Translating vision into value offerings Nurturing the Evolution of the Organization

Harmonizing Systems and Human Processes to ensure holistic unfolding of the organization
Transforming Individual discontent into creative energy Platforms for continuous dialogue

Establishing Self Designing Capabilities

Developing Organizational models to energize Revenue and Business Models Create Shared mental models to interpret emerging realities and design appropriate action
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Sustained Business Excellence through Value Creation

Roadmap
Diagnosis and Assessment through Proprietary tools of FLAME TAO Knoware Workshop to develop a shared assessment and intervention design Co-hold and Co-operate the Implementation Creating internal champions Creating Transition Platforms for continuous metamorphosis of the organization Transformational Outsourcing culminating with a transfer of key know-how
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Case Studies
Sugar Industry
Transformation from a 40 crore unwanted child to a 350+ crore best practice organisation

Food Industry
Transformation from a colonial tea garden into a professionally managed model tea company

Pharma Industry
Turn around of a 25 crore loss making pharma company into a 120 crore profitable company

Software Industry
Culture transformation for a software giant through assessment, design of organisational processes for mentoring; Coaching and Leadership development for middle management.

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Sustained Operational Excellence through Value Addition

Exploring Value Addition War-on-Wastes that are visible and tangible (Q,C,D) Opportunities that are not easily visible but arise due to interlinking of functions and exploiting synergies (Cost of Time or Opportunity)
Am I delighting my Customer?
Am I understanding customer needs Am I improving my serving process continuously

Am I competing effectively in the marketplace?

Are the cost and delivery components of my throughput better than competition? How does my time to market for new products compare with competition?

Am I continuously improving my operational capabilities?

Am I innovating technology of value creation Am I constantly optimising my cash to cash cycle?
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Sustained Operational Excellence through Value Addition

Consulting approach Partnering Organizations on their journey to becoming world class

Helping Organizations understand world class operational benchmarks

Choosing appropriate benchmark frameworks e.g., Deming Establishing the practice of continual improvement

Integrating Cross Functional Skills towards Effective Problem Solving

Teaching Team oriented problem solving methods and tools e.g., SEDAC, Six Sigma and Lean Tool kit Establishing Link Responsibility Focus across the organization

Establishing Self Directed Problem Solving Teams

Empowering Champions to initiate and implement improvement projects.
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Sustained Operational Excellence through Value Addition Roadmap

Assessment of the Workplace and practices using an appropriate Framework Partnering the Organization and creating a Roadmap Evolving the Implementation Design using SEDAC, Lean Tool Kit and Six Sigma Implementing through Cross Functional Teams Transformational Outsourcing culminating with a transfer of key know-how

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Case Studies
Health Care
Work Place Transformation- inventory 4 turns to 12 turns, dead investments into Rs 3 crore/year revenue earner with no investments; SEDAC projects leading to a 20% reduction in cost per SKU

Apparel Industry
Significant improvement in productivity, doubling of capacity through use of Lean Manufacturing and FLAME TAO alignment methodology in one of top 10 export house.

Electronic components Industry

Lean Transformation making the company a bench mark among its different divisions world wide with a culture of continuous and systematic improvement substantial improvement in top line and bottom line.

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Offering focused on Personal Effectiveness

FLAME TAO Knoware brings its considerable experience in process work and problem solving to organisations through its training modules
Personal Effectiveness and Leadership Theatre based Personal Transformation Workshops Team Oriented Problem Solving Team oriented improvement and project management

Based on an assessment of the needs of the client organisation, these programmes will be customised Executive and Leadership Coaching
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Consulting Partnerships
FLAME TAO has formed a consulting platform in collaboration with
Ibhar Technologies to offer soft ware based solutions to organisations in the areas of Alignment, Productivity and Corporate performance Management. MAFOI to offer consulting services to organisations in the areas of Goal Alignment and Corporate Performance Management

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The FLAME TAO Roles

FLAME TAO Roles in Sutradhar the consulting Catalyst Coach processes

Educator

A partner in creating organisations where every member of the organisation creates value every member feels valued

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The FLAME TAO Mental Models For Managing Change Understanding Organization
The Organization Maturity Model Model for assessing organization, Benchmarking and Business Planning

Understanding Leadership and Roles

The Tensegrity Mandala and Role Alignment Model for designing Roles and Organisation Structure

Understanding Membership and work

The Value Adding Position Model for the creation of value and work design
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Summary
Our key focus is on two concepts
Alignment & Productivity

Alignment is the outcome of a constant quest for

Coherence Convergence Correspondence Where am I? Where are we? Why am I here? Why are we here? Who am I? Who are we?

Productivity is the outcome of continuous systematic improvement of all practices and processes of the organisation

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Summary
FLAME TAO Knoware is a team of experts in designing, customizing and deploying practices and tools that create and sustain Strategic Fitness through Transformation, Alignment and Optimization Strategic Fitness is the ability of the organisation to be experienced as
Focused Fast Flexible Friendly Fun

These outcomes are achieved through developing internal practices that foster readiness, resilience, reality appraisal, responsiveness, response capability, relationship building and renewal. These Practices in turn are embedded in tools and technology

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Summary
The Parable of the Magnet

Any piece of iron can become a magnet.

Most do not live up to their potential because their elemental dipoles are not aligned.

N N S

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Summary
The Parable of the Magnet
To make any piece of iron a magnet, these elemental dipoles are aligned in a N-S direction by rhythmic stroking employing a permanent magnet.

Transform

Align
N N S S N N

Optimize
S S S N N N S S S N S N S N S N S

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Summary
The Parable of the Magnet

The new magnet has a sense of direction.

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It has long range order - the ability to attract to itself iron pieces from a distance.

Every organisation has this potential if it aligns itself.

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Summary
The FLAME TAO Knoware Team
Chairman Emeritus: Dr. Ryuji Fukuda Board Members: Parag Shah, Prof. Indira Parikh, N S Raghavan, Raghu Ananthanarayanan, S Badri Narayana Badri Narayana Vishnupriya Sharma Sustained Operational Chitra Parashar Excellence Sreedher Kadambi

Gagandeep Singh K S Narendran Raghu Ananthanarayanan Vandana Menon

Sustained Business Excellence

A team of mutually responsive functional specialists with a deep knowledge of human processes
FLAME TAO Knoware Pvt Ltd, # 11, 1st Floor, 10th D Main, 1st Block Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 011, Phone : (080) 65683031 www.flametaoknoware.com FLAME TAO Knoware Pvt Ltd, 2/544, "Maitri", 4th Street, Sriram Avenue, Natesan Colony, Kottivakkam, Chennai-600 041 Phone: (044) 24487949 Phone/Fax: 24488095
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Summary
The FLAME TAO Knoware Team

FLAME TAO Knoware consultants invest time and effort in areas other than business consulting
Process work Sumedhas Development of craft communities Theatre Education

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Thank You

FLAME TAO Knoware Pvt. Ltd.

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