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 contraints 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.
Professional recommendations
Results and judgment, in the words of colleagues and clients
Real examples of savings, stronger processes, and practical business decisions.
“All together, our projects netted the company $1,083,000 dollars in yearly savings.”
“He demonstrated it in evaluating a potential fix to one our syringe defect problems which eventually proved to be the best solution and saved us $200k a year.”
“what sets him apart from the crowd in my opinion is his wisdom in applying stats to drive business results.”
“Tony is a strong mentor for those fortunate to work with him and can think broadly, addressing complex problems to deliver business value.”
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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 perspectiveAnalytical depthPractical 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 challenging business decisions. We combine data science, AI-enabled analysis, business valuation, and operational improvement to identify practical actions that may strengthen business value.
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.
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