WHO I AM

MY SUITCASE

I've gained 30 years of experience in automotive industry and in manufacturing processes applied as well in other sectors.

I've built a «personal database» of real business cases and a network of relationships which to rely on for advice or help when needed.

I have collected tangible results and recognition from the field.

I am determined, generous, rigorous, full of energy and curiosity.

MY VALUE AND MY VALUES

I provide expertise, seniority and authority to help my Clients finding efficient solutions to their needs; I can act «on call», preventing increase of structure fixed costs /overheads.

I do what I promise, making my knowledge available to my Clients in a transparent and unreserved manner.

I believe in intellectual honesty, in the ability to question myself, and I would like to give back to others what I was taught during my working life.

MY VISION

I would like my Clients to look at me as a professional reference to trust in, in order to grow their business.

My guidance will be carried out «from the inside», as part of the team that I will push and challenge in the best way, sharing my experience and my knowledge.

I will make my Clients feel safe and in good hands; they will live this partnership as a value added experience.

MY VALUE PROPOSAL

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Developing your products in the best way

Being efficient (and therefore to reduce costs) means «knowing how to do it, in the right way, the first time»: 

  • setting feasible and optimized plans, but be ready to modify them if challenged by external events, while still securing the results
  • taking advantage of the expertise of those who have already coped with similar situations, to understand how to make the right choice
  • assessing ourselves continuously and compare to others; there's always something to learn
In order to develop your products in the best way, my proposal is:

  • setting a development plan that could be consistent with the product and with the size and structure of your company
  • supporting top management in the creation of product initiatives, both from the technical and economic side
  • promoting a correct product target setting, identifying primary targets and transforming them in measurable technical targets as project basics
  • identifying a set of key performance indicators (technical and economic) to be monitored through the development, in order to guarantee timing, costs, investments, quality and performance
  • if needed, managing compromises between performances and evaluate any waiver, seeking the best solution for the company and for the success of the product
  • conceiving detailed planning of activities, analyzing the possibility of stretching and parallelization, whether it is necessary to recover from unexpected or to anticipate
  • managing the product also in the production manteinance phase, through the creation of product improvement and costs reduction plans

QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Improving the quality of your products and processes

Quality is a value, and you could even cash in on:

  • gaining your client's fidelity, either final customer or company, reaching a competitive product and a significant market share
  • increasing your business accordingly, letting the market preferring you over less reliable competitors
  • making your products speak in your place, thus reducing the effort and expense of advertising your business
In order to improve the quality of your products and processes, my proposal is:

  • identifying measurable quality indicators, internal or external to the company (linked to the performance of the product as contributor to customer's overall performance) and use them to set action priorities
  • using the indicators reactively (to eliminate problems) or proactively (to prevent the potential criticality and avoid them to arise), in order to reduce the costs linked to «missing quality»
  • making diagnosis on problems, identifying the root cause and the related corrective actions to be quickly implemented in order to limit scrap and rework losses
  • on high-rate or high-complexity processes, if a non-conformity has been identified, implementing containment actions and identifying specific controls that could reduce the need of scrap or rework and the risks in customer perception
  • support the company in the implementation of quality control standards or qualification of products/processes required by their customers (i.e. APQP, PPAP)
  • provide technical support to the company customer service in the management of complaints, and product liability department in the preliminaries of field actions (service / recall campaign) and legal claims

WHAT «CONSULTING» MEANS TO ME

ACT AS A MENTOR

  • drive the team
  • drive on new paths
  • be organized
  • share the expertise
  • keep mental alertness
  • get appropriate tools
  • spread energy and trust
  • manage timings and plannings
  • support decisions

FIND A SOLUTION

  • frame issues
  • make critical evaluations
  • react to unexpected
  • remove causes
  • set up recovery plans
  • assess risks
  • assess ourselves
  • guarantee over time
  • prevent falling back

RECOMMEND A STRATEGY

  • move from vision to action
  • being resolute
  • apply concreteness
  • identify alternatives
  • share straightforward
  • compare with others
  • be openminded and curious
  • stimulate flexibility
  • grow the Client

Where I come from

NOT ONLY AUTOMOTIVE….

DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS

Largest automotive company or small /medium-sized production companies, same main business processes: they all buy raw materials, transform them, sell semi-finished or finished products. They all have internal and external logistics flows, they all seek the quality and excellence of their product.

The difference lies in how explicit are some procedures and in the number of people involved in each process (often we are speaking of a few people); in any case, well organized processes are essential for a winning company.

DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW

Living everyday in a well-know world, can get us a bit «addicted» to some misbehaviours: taking for granted some rules even when they are not, seeing only problems instead of looking for solutions, considering things as unmovable, even without a solid reason why.

Someone told «to get different results you have to do different things»: being helped by someone who push us to see things from a new point of view, can stimulate us in the search for new paths; eventually , it will make us see and reach the finish line… it was just in front of us, but hidden from our view.

DIFFERENT EXPERTISE

The road blocks we cope with in working life are often linked to «human» factors, common to all of us: we underestimate risks, we fall in love with solutions, we feel uncomfortable in questioning ourselves and we often postpone decisions.

This happens independently on the productive sector in which we work and makes it much more difficult to gain the expected results.
Sharing the experience and discussing openly is always an opportunity for personal growth, while the company will also increase its value.