Diraction in brief
DirAction is a company of hands-on Professionals with a deep expertise in Operations Management, Operational Performance Improvement and Organizational transformation/change.
We flank our Clients, providing managerial and analytical capabilities to solve complex operational and organizational problems, and/or to design and accelerate the implementation of improvement projects and transformation programs.
Since 2008, DirAction teams have passionately served a wide range of manufacturing and service Companies, through a distinctive, tailor-made, modular and flexible approach and working model.
Our Clients are everywhere: in Europe, USA, Asia, South America.
Performance focus
Achieving tangible, sustainable, «hard» and «soft» results: this is our main mission.
Depending on the Client situation and needs, our engagements can be customized to generate impact on:
- Costs and working capital
- Assets utilization
- Effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes, as well as business and managerial processes
- Quality, delivery reliability and customer satisfaction
- Organizational readiness and agility
- People competence and skills
RECENT ENGAGEMENTS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED TO:
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Accelerate the industrialization process of pharmaceutical generics company
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Re-design the quality-labs processes and logistics to optimize the lead time of analyses and workload balance
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Re-design roles & responsibilities system for an aircraft engineering company
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Identify the opportunities to optimize the conversion cost of a fine mechanics manufacturer and design a transformationprogram
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Increase the managerial capabilities of a R&D Manager and a Quality Manager
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Optimize inventory levels and related turnover index for a cosmetics producer
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Reduce the time-to-market for a pharma equipment manufacturer
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Increase the overall productivity and throughput of a pharma packaging plant
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Re-design the operational standards of a whole industrial food system, based on value drivers
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Design, launch and implement a lean transformation program at multiple energy production sites
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Right-size the organizational structure of a Business Unit and a related manufacturing site
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Optimize the supply chain, logistics and materials handling at a construction yard to reduce lead time and rework
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Design, install and ramp-up a performance management system at the main support functions of a multinational company
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Optimize the design of an automotive component to reduce its cost
A distinctive way of working
We combine managerial – action oriented way of working with consulting – project leadership skills and peer to peer collaborative style.
Rigorous and fact based
Either in case of a more strategic program design as well as in case of focused problem solving, our approach is based on data driven analyses and on-field observations, as the foundation to drive solutions design and implementation.
We select and use solid and successful frameworks and apply the most robust methodologies and managerial solutions.
We are truly inspired by the well known Lean-Thinking and related World-Class principles for operations and organization, although we believe in their non-dogmatic selection and application.
Direction and action
During our Client engagements
we’re active on several fronts
- Analytics, on-field assessments & diagnostics
- Problem solving, engineering of technical and managerial solutions
- Leadership Team discussions, sharing & alignment
- Design and planning of improvement/change programs and/or projects
- Quantification of improvement potential
- Project management & execution of actions
- Story-lining and communication
- People engagement and buy-in
- Capability building
- Reinforcement of Managerial and Leadership skills
- Individual coaching
- Structured feedback sessions
- Individual agenda structuring