Rath & Strong

What makes us so respected and effective?

Focus on Leadership and Change Management Consulting
First, we’ve learned that focusing on four key leverage points – process, leadership, culture, and customer, and how they relate to one another – is key to any successful business process improvement initiative.

Leader in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma and Lean Consulting & Training
Second, our experience with Six Sigma and Lean goes back longer than any other firm. In groundbreaking work, we invented many of the tools critical to the Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Lean methodologies.

In the 1970's, Rath & Strong's Dorian Shainin played an integral part in developing Six Sigma at Motorola with Bill Smith. Later, in the 1980's, Rath & Strong helped bring Lean from Japan, pioneering the integration of JIT and Process Redesign with Quality (or what is now commonly referred to as Lean Six Sigma). Rath & Strong also worked with GE Capital when Six Sigma was applied to services across the board for the first time.

Workbench of Customised Consulting, Coaching, and Training
Rath & Strong offers a full suite of customised consulting, coaching and training in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Lean, as well as other programs to achieve business process improvement. We work with you to customise a training program that is right for you and your organisation. We can help your organisation get started, help you go enterprise-wide, re-energise an existing program, or help get a stalled effort restarted.

Our long history is based on years of getting results for our clients—many of the world’s most successful organisations. But the real difference lies in our people, our approach, and how we work with you. In building partnerships with our clients, we transfer the skills you will need to guide change and achieve enduring results.

We are proud to have been the consultant of choice in recent years to bring an integrated portfolio of services in Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Leadership Development, Customer Loyalty and Culture Change to clients such as General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Armstrong Industries, Quest Diagnostics, Siemens, and British Petroleum.

Today we provide, consulting, coaching, training and implementation, leadership, process improvement, change management and customer loyalty consulting. We are dedicated to transferring the knowledge, skills and technology we build with our clients to them, so that they can independently carry forward the benefits of working with us.

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