Bill Gaw’s lean management experience spans more than 35 years. During those years, Bill has held positions as a shop expeditor, business planner, buyer, manufacturing manager, vice president, president and lean-management educator. 

As a lean management business leader he has participated in four successful business turnarounds. In each case, he implemented lean management principles and techniques that brought sanity to the day-to-day operations, eliminated the stress of end-of-the-month scrambling and created a fun work environment. He not only helped ensure company survivals but helped save hundreds of jobs as well. It’s little wonder that when companies needed help, they turned to Bill Gaw.

At Solar Turbines, as an operations executive he helped grow the business from $50 to $500 million while turning losses into profits in the first year of a four-year period. Business systems upgrades and effective implementations were the key to profitable growth.

In Spain, at Pagaso, a Spanish truck company, his parts distribution team was instrumental in turning a huge annual loss into an annual profit - achieving the three-year turnaround objective. Bill designed, developed, implemented and achieved effective lean management techniques based on kaizen and just-in-time logistic methodologies.

When Eaton Leonard Technology faced bankruptcy, they turned to Bill Gaw. Bill and his operation teams helped achieve profitability in the first year of reorganization. Continuous improvement and motivational performance management provided the driving force for a timely, profitable turnaround. 

Palomar Systems wanted greater profit margins and increased sales. Within only four years, Bill’s teams increased product profit margin from 32% to 55% while growing the company from $17 to a whopping $250 million. This was a classic example of the benefits gained through implementation of lean management principles and techniques, the balanced scorecards and team dynamics. . 

Using business experiences as a learning lab, Bill methodically researched and tested business ideas, practices, processes and systems relative to how they contributed to bottom line improvement. 

Bill was able to isolate lean management principles and techniques that are crucial to establishing a solid foundation for personal and company success. Through these experiences, he identified relevant management BASICS and documented how to execute them for maximum growth and profits.