We optimize manufacturing and service companies.
Beyond Visual Range is a business management consulting firm that focuses on the development, deployment, and execution of differentiating strategy for privately-held, middle and lower middle market manufacturing and services companies.
We believe in adding immediate value in a manner that leads to long-term, “over-the-horizon” success. We do this by teaching as we facilitate change, ensuring that the tools, system, and thinking become ingrained into the DNA of your leaders.
What we do.
We help companies to better position themselves for the future.
Grow revenue
Improve margin
Increase cash flow
Improve safety, quality, delivery, & cost
Increase capacity
Develop leaders for today and tomorrow
Facilitate a world-class culture
Position your company for sale or succession
Experience
Brad is the founder of BVR Consulting and a business executive, former Senior U.S. Government Official, and U.S. Marine Corps Officer with 20+ years of leadership and management experience:
General Manager of a lower-middle-market defense manufacturing company
Developed corporate strategy and a business management system to align and integrate 35 manufacturing facilities for a Fortune 1000 manufacturing company
Vice President of Operations for a $3B aerospace and defense manufacturing company
Former Senior White House Advisor for the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis (SES Tier III)
US Marine Corps Officer and aircraft carrier-based F/A-18C pilot
Our Process: How we achieve long lasting results.
We take a holistic approach proven to deliver sustainable results.
Assess
~7 DAYS
Vision & Strategy
Interviews
Go and See
Review Available Data
Roadmap
~14 DAYS
Develop Actionable Plan & Achievable Objectives
ROI Assessment
Engage
30-180 DAYS
Deployment w/ holistic systematic approach
Rigid Principles, Flexible Implementation
Process Focused, Results Driven
Your Results
Tangible
Revenue Growth
Improved Margin
Increased Cash Flow
Improved Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost
Embraced
People Centric
Engaged Workforce
Teach through doing
Sustainable
Long-Term Profitable Growth
Compounding Velocity
w/ Community Impact
A Business Management System to Propel your Velocity
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Strategy Development.
Cultivating a unique and differentiating value proposition for your chosen customers
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Meaningful Measurement.
A disciplined and rigorous process to ensure progress towards the plan
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Strategy Deployment.
Aligning actions and the allocation of resources to the strategy; working on the things that matter to move the needle
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Standardized Execution.
Improving the processes that drive desired results; process focused, results driven
Core Competencies & Offerings.
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Strategy explains how an organization will achieve superior performance in the face of competition. It is about providing a unique value proposition for your chosen customers in a way that differentiates you from competition.
Strategy is meaningless in the absence of a clear Vision and Mission, and is rudderless without common core values.
BVR is passionate about helping others define their purpose and developing competitive strategies to achieve success towards that end.
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Known in lean circles as “Hoshin Kanri,” Strategy Deployment is a process used to identify and focus on the “vital few” objectives that will ensure success in pursuit of your mission; and importantly, the breakthrough initiatives at every level of the business that will facilitate the accomplishment of those vital few objectives.
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In order to lead and grow a successful business well into the future, capital management has to be aligned with your strategy. BVR can help you with:
Balance Sheet Health
OCF Analysis
Capital Allocation Decisions
ROI Analysis
Financial Modeling
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If growth is a central part of your strategy, BVR Consulting can help you develop a growth strategy to ensure long-term, profitable growth.
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Operational Excellence in manufacturing and service businesses begins and ends with the value stream. As we actively manage our value streams, we will begin to understand where our biggest challenges and opportunities are. Once identified, opportunities can be attacked with a long list of lean / CI processes:
Value Stream Management
Standard Work
Visual Workplace / 5S
Total Productive Maintenance
Quick Changeover / SMED
Daily Management
Problem Solving
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We provide onsite operational due diligence helping to develop and inform Private Equity, Family Office, and Direct Investment theses.
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“Safety is a window into the soul of a business;” you will not find a world-class manufacturing or service company that does not have a world-class safety process. BVR Consulting is passionate about safety, but not for safety‘s sake alone; a solid safety process can be the foundation to build a world-class culture dedicated to improving all aspects of the business.
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Leadership and management are two distinctive and complementary systems of action. Managers supervise and run the day to day operations of the business while leaders inspire others to achieve a common vision despite inevitable obstacles.
Most businesses are over-managed and under-led; successful businesses need both. BVR teaches business owners the principles and skills necessary to lead and inspire while ingraining the same into the DNA of your team to create the leaders of tomorrow.
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BVR has the ability to provide interim leadership to fill temporary leadership gaps in the following areas:
CEO / COO / CFO
General Management
Operations Management
Controller / Accounting
Business Development / Sales & Marketing
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Drawing on a unique background as an aircraft carrier-based fighter-pilot and a senior political appointee at the highest levels of U.S. Government, Brad has the ability to captivate audiences by highlighting the importance of individual and organizational excellence while drawing parallels between flying in combat, navigating the political chaff in the Pentagon and White House, and operating in high risk manufacturing and service environments.
Brad can customize a message focusing on what’s important for your business while delivering a powerful message that is sure to leave your team inspired.
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
-SUN TZU
Values We Live By.
Respect for People
We believe in respect for individuals
Integrity
Doing the right thing regardless of who benefits
Teaching, Coaching & Mentoring
Building leaders for today and tomorrow
Reshore American Manufacturing
Supporting local communities and our National Security
Testimonials.
Case Study: Powder Metal Manufacturer
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Context
Powder metals manufacturer undergoing significant capacity expansion via capital investment in key differentiating technology
Identified need to improve upstream capacity to feed new equipment while relocating upstream processes to new facility
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What We Did.
Took a deep dive into the current state via value steam analysis
Facilitated improved flow in the new facility design and layout
Improved visual workplace through 5S to enhance personnel productivity
Established Daily Management to measure effectiveness and ensure progress towards the plan
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Outcome.
In Progress.
Contact.
brad@bvrconsulting.com