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The Whole Package
By Dan Templeton

We believe in Lean Sigma. We believe in ISO9000. We believe in QFD. We believe in TRIZ. We believe in generating business value through developing intellectual property. The litany of techniques in Aptimise’s toolkit can go on. We at Aptimise have consulted regarding each of these techniques over the last decade and practiced them vigorously in a mid-cap corporation for another score of years before that.

We believe in this toolkit of techniques so much that we put our money down. We bought a turnaround company; a small business; America's fountainhead for future growth. While I don't yet hold out PCC as the epitome of quality, research, or operational prowess, the toolkit is working.

We brought the whole toolkit package. In designing the business plan, we made strategy maps and logic diagrams. We did SWOT analyses and deployed them to operational details. Of course, plans are always the first things to die when the battle begins. Amazingly though, the plan led us through the great recession. We diversified the product lines. We targeted sales growth. We reduced the manufacturing footprint to allow new business to grow.

And, we built intellectual property. We generated a patent portfolio in the first two years having a dozen or so innovations. IP is the heart of the PCC business. We're starting to outlicense and do tech transfer showing the future revenue stream from IP that raises the value of the business.

Our experience tells us that any small manufacturing business can become a profitable and valuable company when they bring the whole package.

You’re a small manufacturing business. Can you bring the whole package? Which would you rather assist you to become that profitable and valuable company: a "30,000 foot level" strategist who does not get dirty hands; or Aptimise, the consultants for competitive advantage who execute what they preach. Aptimise, who believe in the whole toolkit package and back that belief with their own investment capital.