James Bandrowski

Vistage Speaker | President – Rock Your Industry | TEC Canada Speaker

James Bandrowski, president of Strategic Action Associates in Traverse City, Michigan, helps management teams achieve outstanding financial results through strategic planning, lean Six Sigma, global marketing, cost reduction, and leadership excellence. With clients including GE, Disney, Boeing, Chevron, and the U.S. Navy, Jim has extensive experience in driving success across industries. He is the author of *Corporate Imagination Plus* and *Discover Your Inner Strength* and has lectured at Stanford University and taught executive courses at various universities. Jim holds an MBA from NYU, an MS in management science from NJIT, and a chemical engineering degree from Villanova.

James Bandrowski

Vistage Speaker | President – Rock Your Industry | TEC Canada Speaker

James Bandrowski, president of Strategic Action Associates in Traverse City, Michigan, helps management teams achieve outstanding financial results through strategic planning, lean Six Sigma, global marketing, cost reduction, and leadership excellence. With clients including GE, Disney, Boeing, Chevron, and the U.S. Navy, Jim has extensive experience in driving success across industries. He is the author of *Corporate Imagination Plus* and *Discover Your Inner Strength* and has lectured at Stanford University and taught executive courses at various universities. Jim holds an MBA from NYU, an MS in management science from NJIT, and a chemical engineering degree from Villanova.

James’s Topics

In this interactive session, James Bandrowski presents a five-step process for creating and implementing winning strategies to achieve breakthroughs in performance. Through a discussion of strategic thinking and execution, he introduces a creative planning process and over fifty strategic techniques tailored to the participants’ needs. Real-world examples illustrate the concepts, and participants apply the process to a common issue or opportunity. Topics include gaining insights into a company’s situation, overcoming obstacles, thinking creatively, making strategic decisions, developing a compelling vision, and launching strategies that excite the organization.

In this interactive session, James Bandrowski presents a five-step process for developing and executing winning strategies that drive performance breakthroughs. He starts with a discussion on effective strategic thinking, then introduces a creative planning process with over fifty strategic techniques, using real-world examples. Participants apply the process to an issue or opportunity relevant to their group. Key topics include gaining insights into strategic situations, overcoming obstacles, thinking creatively, making decisions, developing a compelling strategy, minimizing risks, and effectively launching and monitoring strategies to inspire organizational engagement.

Developing a Breakthrough Strategy is challenging. Putting it into action is even harder. This workshop provides Vistage members with a three-phased, nine-step Execution Excellence process for putting a new vision, values, strategy and/or policy into action. You can use this workshop and accompanying handout as a guide in your future strategy implementation efforts. Included is an assessment with which you can evaluate your past and present execution efforts, and employ as a checklist on your future ones.

This workshop provides Emerging Leaders with a three-phased, nine-step Execution Excellence process for putting a new vision, values, strategy, policy, plan, or project into action. Maximize your own productivity, as well as that of anyone else in the organization involved in your initiative.
You can use this workshop and accompanying handout as a guide in your future strategy and operating plan implementation efforts. Included is an assessment with which you can evaluate your past and present execution efforts, and employ as a checklist on your future ones.

In this session, Jim Bandrowski will explain how your organization can eliminate waste, add customer value, and improve financial performance in just 30 days using Lean principles. He will present a CEO perspective on Lean and provide interactive examples from various industries, including manufacturing, service, and IT. You’ll learn to identify the 8 Wastes of Lean, implement techniques for visual, time, and flow improvements, sponsor Kaizen events, reduce inventory, cut cycle times, employ error-proofing, and integrate Lean with Six Sigma to reduce defects and variation, driving continuous improvement across your business.

In this interactive workshop, members will learn to amplify their innovative thinking and that of their entire organization, practice conceiving innovations, and assess their organization’s current Innovation Intensity. They will identify the ideal level of innovation for their company, evaluate and enhance their Innovative Culture, and learn the six-step New Product and Service Innovation Process. Members will apply cutting-edge methods like Design Thinking to uncover unmet needs and speed up new product development through Agile and Innovation Sprints.

This executive overview will show how Six Sigma tools and techniques have helped companies like GE, Sony, and Motorola achieve significant cost savings and quality improvements. Members will learn the Six Sigma DMAIC process and practical techniques that can be applied to manufacturing, service, and back office operations. By using Six Sigma, companies can enhance customer satisfaction, reduce cycle time, and eliminate inefficiencies, leading to improved product quality, faster responses, and lower costs, ultimately positioning them as low-cost leaders in their industry.

The benefits of cost reduction are obvious. Every dollar you save is a dollar that drops to the bottom line. James Bandrowski will show you how to capture those profits now and gain a competitive advantage by being the most efficient company among your competitors-your industry’s “cost leader.” Organizations that have the most cost effective operations are those that survive difficult times, and thrive in good ones. Discover big cost reduction opportunities in your organization and learn how to take them to the bottom line. Through case studies of a variety of organizations that used a range of approaches, find those techniques that most closely apply to your situation.

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