As implementation consultants, the FLAME TAO Knoware team is focused on aligning and transforming organizations on two distinct and yet integrated levels:

Sustained Business Excellence : The implementation consulting is focused on enabling client organizations to institutionalize culture change, enhanced role taking, strategic leadership, and systems that make them more responsive to their ecology.

Through Strategic Fitness, FLAME TAO Knoware anchors and facilitates a series of dialogue across various stakeholders that build on tacit and explicit knowledge residing within the individual and collectivities, thus creating new mental models and approaches towards organization development.  

Strategic fitness encompasses consulting interventions on change management, organizational transformation, turnarounds, enhancing role effectiveness, developing and assessment of leadership, and goal alignment.

Sustained Operational Excellence: Theconsulting focus of this level is on the visible task systems, the value chain, and the organization throughput, where we partner internal change agents and teams to minimize waste and non-value adding processes. The key objective is on creating and implementing a self-perpetuating system that brings about a sustained operational excellence.

The FLAME TAO team integrates a socio-technical systems approach with lean tools and models to enable operational excellence within an Indian context. The consulting interventions take shape from a diagnosis of the task system capabilities and capacities, into identifying and co-partnering teams that implement such tools and models within a cultural context.  

Through Operational Excellence, FLAME TAO Knoware anchors interventions on Lean Transformation of Workplace using the Lean portfolio of tools & techniques including 5S, Kaizen, SMED, Jidhoka, Hosin Kanri, SEDAC, Value Stream Mapping, Six Sigma tools etc., Plant Design & Layout, Design of Socio-Technical Systems, and Cellular Manufacturing.