Improve business performance
Find bottlenecks, improve throughput, strengthen margins, reduce waste, and uncover practical opportunities for top-line and bottom-line improvement.
Explore improvement servicesClear thinking. Practical improvement.
Find what’s holding your business back. Improve what matters.
From owner-operated businesses to complex organizations, we find bottlenecks and turn them into measurable improvement.
Improve what matters:
- Grow revenue and capacity
- Improve margins and profitability
- Reduce costs, waste and delays
- Improve quality and customer experience
Lean Six Sigma and Operational Excellence are the foundation.
Analytics, data science and AI support the work when useful.
Start where you are
What needs to work better?
You do not need to know the method. Start with the problem you want to solve.
The LodeStar approach
The problem leads.
The tools follow.
Better decisions begin with better questions. We help you examine assumptions, understand the evidence, and choose a practical way forward.
AI adds capability where it is useful. Human judgment keeps the work grounded in your business.
- Business problem
- Insight
- Appropriate tools
- Improvement
- Measurable results
Find what is driving the problem.
Connect the numbers with the process and the people doing the work.
Choose the right approach.
Use analytics, AI, machine learning, Lean Six Sigma, or straightforward process redesign as the situation requires.
Put insight into practice.
Make changes, measure their effects, and help your team sustain the improvement.
Experience behind the advice
Business perspective.
Analytical depth.
Practical results.
Led by Dr. Anthony “Tony” Tanaydin, LodeStar combines more than two decades of Lean Six Sigma and operational excellence with business leadership, analytics, data science, AI and machine learning, teaching, and mentoring.
Tony’s experience ranges from strategy and business planning for a $20 billion business to P&L improvement, customer experience, process transformation, and advising owner-operated businesses. Across that work, the focus is practical: understand how the business really works, identify what is driving the problem, improve the process, and measure the result.
Meet LodeStar and DrT- Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
- Operational Excellence Leader
- Business Strategist & Advisor
- Data Science, Analytics & AI
Work with LodeStar
The right kind of help for your next step.
Work through a difficult problem
Bring senior-level guidance to an analytical or operational challenge, with consulting, project support, and mentoring.
Explore project supportBuild your team's capability
Develop the critical thinking and practical skills to solve real business problems, supported by established training and technical resources.
Explore trainingWhat would a better result look like?
Tell us what is happening in your business and what you would like to improve. We will start there.