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Air Academy Associates’ highly skilled consultants assist private equity investment companies in their buy/no-buy decision through the performance of thorough fact-based pre-acquisition “due-diligence” assessments. As outlined in the figure below, our assessment addresses internal and external failure costs, lost opportunity costs, and other factors which are critical to an investment decision.
When a private equity investment company acquires an interest in the business, Air Academy’s world-class post-acquisition deployment personnel use the assessment data to develop a customized Lean Six Sigma Deployment Plan to drive systematic waste and variation reduction in processes throughout the business. The post-acquisition support and training also emphasize customer value with regard to products and services, insuring that the business supplies its customers with the right product, at the right time, at a reasonable cost. Achieving measurable improvements in these and other areas of focus, each driven by the pre-acquisition assessment, dramatically increases the business top- and bottom-line and improves shareholder value with sustained and verifiable EBITDA/P&L benefits.
EQUITY INVESTMENT PHASES
Written estimate of the opportunity for Creation and implementation of a customized
improvement to key decision-makers: 12-18 month Lean Six Sigma Deployment Plan:
- Internal Failure Costs - Initialization
Overproduction Infrastructure
Waiting Goal Setting and Deployment
Transportation Responsibilities by Function
Inventory Finance
Processing HR/Training
Motion Communications
Defects Operations
- External Failure Costs Engineering
- Appraisal Costs Legal
- Prevention Costs Customer Service
- Lost Opportunity Costs - Execution
Coaching/Mentoring
Projects/Kaizen Events
Training and Workshops
Benefit Delivery
Knowledge Sharing
- Assessment Based on Self-Sustainability
Gap Between Actual Versus Benefits
Performance of Leaders and “Belts”
Project Selection
Project Execution
Benefit Capture
Cultural Assessment
Pre and post-acquisition support to the private equity investment market applies to businesses in every sector including leisure, transportation, industrial and consumer products, retail, steel and building products, healthcare, financial services, agricultural products, aerospace and services.
For more information on how we may assist your pre- and post-acquisition activities, please contact Dr. Lee Pollock at lpollock@airacad.com or at (905) 887-4903.
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