Operations technique and transformation consultancy Argon & Co has teamed up with the Kaizen Institute to help Australian and New Zealand retailers with efficiency enchancment and retailer optimisations.
As a part of the strategic partnership, Argon & Co shoppers in A/NZ will achieve entry to the confirmed instruments, methodologies, and experience of the famend Kaizen Institute, which has introduced the philosophy of steady enchancment to the enterprise world for the previous 40 years.
“By integrating Kaizen Institute’s globally profitable optimisation instruments with Argon & Co’s strategic oversight, we’re poised to ship transformative outcomes for our retail shoppers,” said A/NZ managing companion Paul Eastwood. “This partnership isn’t just about enhancing operations; it’s about fostering a tradition of steady enchancment that propels sustainable progress.”
Already challenged by rising prices and operational complexities akin to provide chain disruption, Argon & Co notes that many retailers within the area are additionally at present contending with underperforming shops on account of various different convergent components, together with fragmented processes, labour inefficiencies, and a disconnect between central planning and in-store execution.
Its new partnership with the Kaizen Institute, Argon & Co says, was particularly solid and designed to deal with these points that are generally compounded by restricted in-house capability to scale remedial initiatives, with their joint supply mannequin offering for the immediate and efficient implementation of tailor-made options to unlock important profitability and money stream positive factors.
“Retailers right this moment face mounting stress to do extra with much less, but many lack a structured and efficient method to drive sustainable revenue & loss enhancements at scale,” commented Kaizen Institute director Diogo Felisberto. “Via our partnership with Argon & Co, we’re bringing confirmed Kaizen methodologies to the native market in a method that’s each strategic and actionable.”
From diagnostics to steady enchancment
By integrating Argon & Co’s end-to-end operations experience with Kaizen methodologies, the brand new strategic companions say that shoppers can count on a structured, phased method combining fast diagnostics with embedded efficiency and cultural enhancements, resulting in course of standardisation, enhanced labour productiveness, and larger buyer expertise and satisfaction.
“Having labored carefully with Kaizen Institute group, I’ve seen first-hand their world experience and pragmatic, people-first method,” stated Argon & Co companion James Lee, chief of the agency’s Lean retail providing. “This collaboration strengthens our potential to ship measurable outcomes for retailers by bridging the hole between high-level technique and store-level execution.”
Based in France in 2001, Argon & Co continues to construct up steam within the A/NZ, with a regional headcount now in extra of 200 consultants following a string of key acquisitions since 2022, Bevington Group being the newest. That momentum additionally seems to be set to proceed, with the worldwide agency not too long ago securing further progress funding from a trio of prime non-public fairness traders.
