SOME FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF THE FLOWORKS

Enjoy a production system that works, a comprehensive management framework that is proven, and the knowledge to operate both of them on your own.
Workflow becomes a central focus—a rallying point—for managing the whole company, for learning more about it and the market it serves. This is organizational development through operations development.
Your employees want to serve your customers. They will be armed with a system that they can rely on to do just that.
By enhancing workflow you will transcend problems that have plagued you for years.

Profits soar when more work, more business move across the same resources and cost structure.
You will find the time to work on the business instead of just in the business. More importantly, you’ll be armed with the knowledge to do it right.

With workflow comes an agility that is key to flexibility. A small, flexible company can run circles around its bigger competitors.

With flexibility comes a readiness to strike when opportunity presents itself. This is key to the success of a small business.

The more work flows, the less inventory you have, and obviously, the less is the cost to store it.
With less work-in-process, whether physical inventory or knowledge-work inventory, you can better see your systems operate. Thus, you can better see and solve the problems that hinder them.
Operations with less physical inventory are inherently safer. Yes, certainly because there is less inventory to handle, store and maneuver (with forklifts and employees' backs); but also because safety issues associated with the process that produces the parts can be spotted more readily and resolved (it's no coincidence that this point parallels the idea presented in the previous bullet point: with flow comes visibility).
We will make substantial improvements to workflow long before anything gets nearly as complicated as what you might have read about in books on Lean production.

When a system is well-designed, every one of its costs exists for good reason. When a well-designed system is running stable, the costs control themselves (if you don’t believe that, perhaps you’ll at least believe that it’s easier to keep them in check).

With enhanced flow comes enhanced quality; problems are more easily traced back to their source because less time has elapsed since the problem occurred and the path to finding it is less circuitous.

What you currently know about management will no longer seem fragmented because you will see where everything fits into this elegant and comprehensive framework.
Instead of trying to force desired results, build a system that reliably—predictably—produces them for you.

With a system they can rely on to serve customers, employees will become engaged and begin pulling in the same direction. The organization’s collective mind will begin to emerge and show that it’s ten times smarter than the smartest person in the room.

This is not a mamby-pamby approach that exists to coddle employees. There are standards of excellence, and everybody in the company is expected to rise to those standards with our help. This is about serving the customer and getting ever better at it. Challenge and high expectations are both forms of respect.

It’s as applicable to service-based businesses and knowledge work as it is to manufacturing. Click here for a list of the types of clients we’ve served.
The very nature of The Floworks approach provides for ready-made strategy and its deployment. It’s built-in and ready to customize around the benefits resulting from a systems-focus, flexibility, continual improvement, and of course, constancy of purpose.  Meanwhile consultants charge an arm and a leg for a strategic plan printed on glossy paper that just gathers dust until it's time to update it for the next year.
Problem-solving whose top priority is knowing which problems to solve first. This is big!
The right metrics: our aim is to make what is most important the most visible, and to keep work flowing. We will simplify what you have to pay attention to. No more information overload.

Financial analysis that maximizes profits by making the most of your operation and the flow it’s capable of.
We also diligently tend to cash flow and offer a quick but meaningful budgeting process.

The elimination of redundant or counterproductive policy. The fact is, many policies have outlived their usefulness. This is not a trivial part of The Floworks’ offering; It’s amazing the extent to which bad policy can hinder a company.
We also have extensive experience in recruiting and do so in cases where we’re convinced that win-win-win success is likely.
Thanks to The Floworks' hands-on approach to learning and a big boost from Dr. Henry Neave’s determined contributions to making Dr. Deming’s life-long work and achievements accessible to us, you will be rocketed down the road to possessing the world’s foremost approach to management, and be able to apply it beyond what you ever imagined.
And if you think you’re not ready to commit to the learning, then just commit to the flow. It’s a good place to start and we’ll even throw in some key metrics just for good measure. [1]

Some aspects of The Floworks logo explained:

The '8' you see in the logo alludes to its use as a symbol of infinity.

It represents an ascension to greater things via:
The upward spiral—a self-feeding helix—that we set ourselves and our organizations upon when we operate according to this framework.
Continual improvement, striving for ever-greater ways to serve the customer, ever-better ways to satisfy the aim of the system.
The infinite universe and the timeless, unbending truths that it offers, there for us to discover and use.
Transcending today's problems by changing our thinking, operating on the high plane of truth, and by leveraging the amazing power of engaged employees who cooperate.
The idea that God does not limit us; we limit ourselves. The universe is rooting for our success; we just need to align ourselves with its truths.

The colors of the logo:
Blue depicts water and represents harmony with natural laws and of course, flow.
Purple represents truth and a connection to things greater than ourselves.
Red depicts the heart: a symbol of love and significance.  It represents the courage, compassion, and determination present in an honorable leader, as well as the heartfelt trust around which meaningful relationships grow. 

Coincidentally, thefloworks.com became the 8th worldwide host for Henry Neave's active-learning course, 12 Days to Deming.

[1] Pun intended. I was just seeing if you were paying attention to the end! But I’m serious about flow and the metrics being a good place to start if you find yourself hesitant to commit to the learning. 