Jim Odom
President of Breakthrough Strategies LLC and author of Continuous Improvement Kept Simple, Replacing Chaos With Order and Stability
- Role
- Training Facilitator at Breakthrough Strategies Llc
- Location
- Cortland, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jim Odom
Clients call me when they have a problem they can’t solve or when they have a broken process. I got a call from a client that was having a customer issue with “lumps” in the product they were providing for several months. I attended a phone meeting and was amazed at the amount of finger pointing and lack of agreement on what direction to take to solve the problem. They invited me to come to their plant in China and within three days we had the problem solved. Using the 6M’s model and a process of elimination, I was able to determine the root cause of the problem was high moisture content in one of the product’s ingredients. Another client was having a large accounts receivable problem in their European operation that they weren’t able to reduce. Using the 6M’s model I was quickly able to determine the root cause to be inadequate work procedures for escalating and collecting customer receivables. In addition to solving problems and fixing broken processes, my wife and I enjoy travelling and visiting our granddaughters in Missouri and Indiana. Specialties include: • Problem Solving • Lean • Lean Six Sigma • Design for Six Sigma • Kaizen • Value Stream Mapping • Continuous Improvement • Process Capability Improvement • Process Improvement • Process Efficiency • Changeover Reduction If you have a need, or just want to discuss some possibilities, please give me a call at 33••••••95 or visit my website at
Experience
Training Facilitator
Feb 2013 — Present
Train Lean Six Sigma and coach projects
Education
Youngstown State University
BAS
1968 — 1975
Kettering University
MS
1992 — 1995
Skills
- Quality System
- Kaizen Facilitation
- Sdlc
- Master Black Belt
- Kanban
- Business Process Improvement
- Fmea
- Quality Systems Auditing
- Operational Excellence
- Toyota Production System
- Kaizen
- Executive Coaching
- Ppap
- Green Belt
- Spc
- Quality Management
- Leadership
- Iso
- Process Engineering
- Team Leadership
- Management Consulting
- Apqp
- Tqm
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Strategy
- Materials
- Training
- Black Belt
- Lean Manufacturing
- Quality Auditing
- Continuous Improvement
- Project Coaching
- Design for Six Sigma
- Team Building
- Change Management
- Process Improvement
- Value Stream Mapping
- Minitab
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