Amplify the Potential and
Capability of Your Organization

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

OUR EXPERIENCE = YOUR SUCCESS

Since 1985, we’ve been helping improve companies' operations. Our experience ranges from improving production processes to improving organizational management.

When you work with us, you connect with people who are passionate about operational excellence and support you with a personalized, hands-on approach. We’ve ‘experienced’ change from many vantage points: from the perspective of a production worker, involvement with a variety of ‘Improvement Programs’ (that came and went), and application of many unconventional and counterintuitive management principles, methods, and tools. We’ve learned to take a balanced and practical approach while taking great pride in helping you create a successful company.

When you work with us:

  • What you see is what you get! There is no hidden workforce. No one is negotiating work, and another is performing change.
  • You have direct access to expertise in creating innovative and unique solutions. Why settle for ‘canned’ solutions from theorists, which are filtered through multiple layers of ‘staff’ to arrive at your doorstep?
  • You have our total attention. No dealing with ‘team members’ who have other ‘Bosses’ to keep happy.
  • We see tools as an application of underlying principles. We start with principles and then adapt a tool to provide a solution specific to your needs

We don't tell you how to manage, we help you manage better
Dave Nave
Principle & Chief Management Engineer

Dave has a unique combination of engineering, operations, and management perspectives which are featured prominently in his consulting practice of helping the whole business operate as one system.

He has leveraged these principles in his activities in:

  • Corporate Process Improvement Team (General Dynamics)
  • Division Product Improvement Group (Boeing)
  • Plant ‘Turn-Around’ Effort (SPECO)
  • Factory Startup (NRC)
  • Co-Authored Book: Strategy Made Visible, Tangible, & Indispensable
  • Board of Examiners - Washington State Quality Award (Baldrige criteria)
  • Advisory Council - The W. Edwards Deming Institute

Dave has shown to be a natural teacher, coach and mentor with an acute instinct for communicating complex ideas and theories in plain, easily understood English. He has worked as a machinist, designed assembly lines in the automotive industry, accelerated process improvement in the aerospace/defense industry, and is an international author.

Our Purpose
Goal
For you to achieve greater productivity, effective managing, and smooth operations, through new insights and dignity of work
Mission
Provide practical guidance for improving organizational performance and application of a method for managing
Values
Individual integrity, mutual trust and respect, humility, and intellectual honesty while encouraging openness to explore and learn