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Lean Six Sigma for Corporate & Professional Services

Process improvement, certification, and structured problem-solving built for HR, finance, legal, procurement, consulting, and shared-services teams.

Corporate professional services team reviewing process improvement metrics in a modern office.
−46%
Cycle time on a core back-office workflow
−58%
Rework reduction across handoffs
$900K
Annualized cost avoidance, no new FTEs
Common challenges in corporate & professional services

Why corporate & professional services teams call us

  • Long cycle times in hire-to-onboard, procure-to-pay, contract-to-close, and order-to-cash
  • Excessive rework and rework loops between corporate functions
  • Handoffs between HR, finance, legal, procurement, and the business that drop work
  • Initiatives launched faster than shared-services teams can absorb
  • Standard work that lives in tribal knowledge and breaks when people leave

Corporate & Professional Services · Featured case study

Professional services firm — procure-to-pay DMAIC

A professional services firm's procure-to-pay cycle had crept past 35 days and rework loops were burning hours across procurement, finance, and the business. A DMAIC project redesigned the workflow end-to-end — cutting cycle time 46% and rework 58%.

  • Procure-to-pay cycle time reduced 46%
  • Rework across handoffs reduced 58%
  • $900K annualized cost avoidance, no new FTEs
  • New standard work and visual controls held the gain past 90 days
−46%
Procure-to-pay cycle time
How we help

Lean Six Sigma solutions built for corporate & professional services

Every engagement is scoped to your real processes, your terminology, and your business goals — not generic case studies.

Cycle Time Reduction for Corporate & Shared-Services Workflows

DMAIC-led reduction of cycle time on hire-to-onboard, procure-to-pay, contract-to-close, and order-to-cash — surfacing handoffs and rework loops that quietly add weeks to every transaction.

Standard Work for Back-Office & Shared Services

Documented standard work for high-variation transactional and case-management work, with visual job aids and an audit cadence that holds the gain across teams and locations.

Yellow Belt & Green Belt Certification for Corporate Teams

Yellow Belt (2 days, on-site or virtual) for HR, finance, legal, procurement, and shared-services teams. Green Belt (5 days, on-site) for project leaders running DMAIC work on cycle time, quality, and cost problems.

Process Mapping for Cross-Functional Corporate Workflows

Cross-functional mapping that follows the work — not the org chart — to surface handoffs and rework between HR, finance, legal, procurement, IT, and the business.

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Corporate & Professional Services · FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Every partner had their own version of the engagement workflow. After the standard work and DMAIC project, our delivery margin moved four points in a single quarter — and the new associates got productive in half the time. That's the part our managing partner cared about.
Operations Partner, sponsor
Professional services firm — engagement standardization project
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Standardize delivery without flattening your partners

From engagement onboarding to billing close-out, professional services firms leave margin on the table in inconsistent delivery. We'll scope DMAIC and standard-work projects that protect partner judgment while making the rest of the engagement repeatable.