Run Improve Grow
breaks the firefighting cycle
Run today. Improve tomorrow. Growon purpose. ™
Run Improve Grow ® is leadership-led operational excellence for manufacturers who’ve had enough.
Enough of the chaos. Enough of carrying too much. Enough of depending on heroics.
Run Improve Grow® (RIG) helps teams get the Run under control, solve problems faster, and build real capacity, without grinding people (or the business) down.
Tony Batt
Manufacturing/Quality Manager
EST Analytical, a Velaris brand
“[Run Improve Grow] really gave us the structure overall and the confidence to be able to move forward as we grow our manufacturing business.”
Steven Vitale
President
Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc.
“We did an [Run Improve Grow] audit of where we felt we were, and the entire organization was operating in the Run.... ”
Fabien Schmahl
Former President & CEO
thyssenkrupp BILSTEIN of America
“We didn’t just improve processes — we changed how people think about their role in the business.”
What’s really causing the chaos
Chaos happens when accountability is fuzzy and the day runs on improvisation. Two things go missing fast:
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WHO
Owns what? Decides? Follows up?
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HOW
To run the day? To fix what breaks? To stop it from breaking again?
When those answers aren’t clear, the day depends on heroics.
What Run Improve Grow ® is
Run Improve Grow® (RIG) is leadership-led operational excellence. It’s a way of running the business.
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It builds a Run that can stand on its own.
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Then it builds improvement that sticks.
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So growth can happen without adding turbulence.
This simple triangle tells the story
When the Run takes up everything, Improve and Grow get squeezed out.When the Run is stable, there’s room to build.
Run
The base. The day-to-day work required to deliver for customers—if it’s unstable, leaders get pulled into the weeds.
Improve
The bridge. This is where everything stops being an emergency and teams shift to preventing problems beforethey happen.
Grow
The point. Grow is when you can make bold moves with confidence—because the Run is stable and the Improve is proactive.
Most improvement efforts don’t fail because the tools are wrong.
They fail because they use one tool at a time, on one problem at a time, in one area at a time.
RIG is a method for using the tools in an integrated way, so progress actually sticks.
People + Process + Performance ™
In the Run, the tools create stability:
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Making problems visible (visual controls)
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Preventing drift (standard work)
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Reducing breakdowns (predictive maintenance)
In Improve, the tools create lift:
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Fixing the real cause (root cause problem solving)
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Stabilizing the process (measurement work)
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Removing structural friction (process engineering)
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Reducing variation (Six Sigma)
RIG builds a front line that can run the day with confidence.
Proof it holds up
Tom Gramlich
President
TimberTech
"We started the project to clean up our plant once and for all. What we got instead was a change in culture. It is way more than just industrial housekeeping!"
Steven Vitale
President
Midwest Industrial Supply
"Three years ago or four years before the transformation, we were a $15 million company, and the year of the transformation we did $34 million. Today, we're at $50 million...It really goes down to Run Improve Grow."
Aldo Albieri
COO
CMT Imports, Inc.
"We achieved over 320% production growth in less than one year with minimal CAPEX. The most impactful ideas came directly from the team."
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