Curtis&Co is a management consulting firm that creates clarity for our customers through the art and science of dynamic, inventive solutions.
We guide clients out of complex situations with solutions that are dynamic and inventive. Look at our logo and you’ll see heritage and success reflected in the sturdy “C.” Our Aspen leaf represents the members of our growing team and the root system that gives us the strength and support to build lasting client relationships. It’s these relationships that create growth for the businesses that we’re fortunate enough to work with. And with each new engagement we proudly bring clarity to our clients.
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
AUTOMATION & ANALYTICS
SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION ADVISORY
LEAN MANUFACTURING
Management consulting
Overview
Curtis&Co has a wide variety of consulting service suites that elevate organizational impact:
- Reduce Costs
- Increase Efficiency
- Reduce Risk
- Increase Growth
Analyze and uncover current state reality to discover what’s broken and better guide your long-term strategy.
- Strategy: Develop structured approach for your planning and progress through the creation of Operational frameworks and Customer Journey Maps to align with your organizational vision.
- Process: Refine your process to maximizing customer value from product inception to support. Pinpoint efficiency opportunities with Value Stream Analysis and Workflow Diagnostics.
- People + Clarity: Leverage Change Impact Baselining and Workforce Assessments to align employee skills with organizational needs to create an adaptable workforce, well prepared to drive changes.
- Data + Tech: Utilize Automation, AI, and Data Analytics to optimize processes, enhance productivity, and enable an informed decision-making across your organization.
Leverage a data-driven approach, a commitment to continuous improvement, and a focus on customer needs through tailored solutions to optimize processes, reduce waste, and improve performance.
- Data Visualization: Transform complex data.
- Automation: Scale business and lower cost with automation tools.
- Project and Program Management: Centralize planning through task management platforms.
- Lean Process Design and Management: Improve efficiency, reduce cost, and increase customer satisfaction.
- SIA: Identify business requirements and translate into functional technical requirements.
- Agile: Use Scrum, SAFe, XP, or Kanban to empower teams to deliver initiatives faster.
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automation & analytics
Overview
Curtis&Co is a trusted partner and guide on your journey to becoming a tech-driven organization, regardless of the maturity of your current data and processes.
- Automation: Assess overall organizational readiness and identify high-potential process areas.
- Implementation & Optimization: Identify and automate manual tasks to streamline efficiency.
- Artificial Intelligence: Leverage AI to optimize productivity and improve overall customer experience.
- Analytics: Use your data to uncover new insights and establish enterprise-wide standards.
Understand your organizational readiness to leverage intelligent automation, freeing up resources and streamlining processes.
- Understand and document current state processes.
- Identify potential assessment functional areas and departments.
- Assess organizational readiness for AI and Automation through the Curtis Automation Maturity Scale (C-AMS).
- Uncover opportunities for automation and AI based on current state capabilities.
- Develop recommendations and outline activities for a future state roadmap.
Utilize software robots to automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Automate repetitive tasks like data entry and form filing with AI-driven solutions.
- Automate decisions using predefined rules for accurate and consistent processes.
- Connect disparate systems for smooth data exchange and process coordination.
- Extract, manipulate, and process data from various sources.
- Use AI and ML algorithms for bots to handle advanced business processes and formulas.
Utilize AI organization-wide to streamline decisions, automate document processing, and improve customer experience.
- Leverage Generative AI to expedite customer inquiries and aid decision-making for an enhanced customer experience.
- Automate the identification of process improvement opportunities by leveraging AI Process Discovery tools.
- Streamline document review processes through Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) tools.
- Implement predictive analytics to anticipate customer needs and personalize interactions.
Harness the power of data to deliver real-time insights & inform decision-making within your organization.
- Combine data from different sources into one application platform for reporting.
- Facilitate the establishment of data governance and intake processes.
- Provide ongoing analytical support / implementation assistance.
- Leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to address business challenges.
Case Studies
SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATIONS ADVISORY
Overview
Curtis&Co conducts System Implementation Advisory (SIA) by effectively providing guidance before, during, and after an implementation to act as an advisor to ensure a successful launch aligned with an organization’s objectives.
- Enterprise System Readiness: Assess readiness for large scale implementation and scope requirements necessary for success.
- Process Standardization: Standardize our actions to effectively progress our efforts an eliminate pain points.
- System Selection Support: Determine how potential solutions align with our requirements and do we have the necessary resources.
- Execution Support: Train people to use the new system and ensure requirements and milestones are being tracked.
- Post Implementation Support: Define how new modules would be deployed and ensure continuous high user adoption.
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lean manufacturing
Overview
Curtis&Co can be your partner on the journey to manufacturing excellence, by empowering you with lean principles to enhance efficiency, minimize waste, and optimize processes.
- Manufacturing Operations Assessment
- Lean Maturity Assessment
- Lean Deployment
Conduct a comprehensive assessment of your current performance, meticulously identifying bottlenecks, and collaboratively devise a strategic plan to effectively eliminate wasteful practices.
- Empower project teams with clear goals, timelines, and success metrics.
- Analyze current processes through stakeholder interviews and data analysis to ID pain points.
- Identify root causes to uncover valuable improvement opportunities.
- Outline quick wins and long-term strategies for advancement.
Assess where your company is in its manufacturing operations relative to where it wants to be by leveraging our Lean Maturity Model.
- Assess Lean Maturity in a company through the following categories: People, Process, Technology, Data, and Culture.
- 18 major lean capabilities are covered across these categories.
- Review each lean capability at a site to find gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Build a plan on how to achieve improvements and improve manufacturing operations.
Effectively implement lean practices across multiple sites by standardizing processes, monitoring progress, and establishing a continuous improvement culture.
- Establish groundwork for required change management activities and gain team buy-in.
- Develop lean capabilities through gap identification and targeted activities.
- Implement lean-tailored production system at additional locations.
- Establish lean program handoff for continued success and expansion.