YAGNA Assessment - Why should you go for it - July 2025

Yagna Entrepreneur Success Services Profile Presentation

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Why subject your company
to YAGNA Assessment?

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YAGNA Entrepreneur Success Services
YAGNA provides comprehensive Business Assessment services offering a
dispassionate third-party view of your business reality through qualitative and
quantitative methods. Our assessment unlocks value for three critical stakeholders:
Key Customers, Employees, and Owners/Investors .
Key Questions We Address:
Customer Value Delivery:
• Are you consistently delivering what customers need and value?
• Is delivery defect-free, on-time, with short lead times at acceptable prices?
• Is your value proposition unique and sustainable against competition?
Employee Empowerment:
• Are employees empowered, developed, and fairly rewarded?
• Do they have growth opportunities with respect and recognition?
• Is compensation competitive or better than market standards?
Financial Performance:
• Are you generating consistent profits with increasing ROI?
• Is free cash flow improving while enhancing market reputation?
• Are these metrics tracked and reviewed regularly?
The Orchestra Analogy
Like an orchestra needs three elements for harmonious performance, your
organization requires:
1. Agreed musical score - Clear strategic direction
2. Accomplished musicians - Skilled, practiced team members
3. Conductor - Real-time coordination and synchronization
Without these, decision-makers from top-floor to shop-floor face conflicting
choices, creating cacophony instead of harmony.

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What We Discover During Assessment
Following Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, we identify leverage points
that deliver maximum improvement effectiveness. Our 100+ years of cumulative
team experience helps locate these critical points.
Two Types of Decision Errors:
• Omission - Not doing what should be done
• Commission - Doing what shouldn't be done
These errors stem from different mental models and viewpoints across your
organization, like the fable of blind men describing an elephant - each having
partial truth but missing the complete picture.
The Leverage Point Principle
Chain Analogy: A chain's strength depends on its weakest link. Strengthening
random links wastes resources; only strengthening the weakest link improves
overall chain strength.
Doctor Analogy: Symptoms indicate underlying disease. Treating symptoms
individually (headache, fever, body ache) is ineffective; treating the root cause cures
all symptoms.
Bottleneck Analogy: In any flow system, the bottleneck determines overall speed.
Improving non-bottleneck areas doesn't increase flow; only addressing the
bottleneck does.
Assessment Methodology
Our proven Theory of Constraints methodology focuses on:
• Securing higher throughput from existing products/markets
• Growth through new markets and products
• Improving measurements and MIS systems
Four Critical Questions:
1. Why Change? - Identify challenges and unmet aspirations (Undesirable Effects)
2. What to Change? - Find core issues causing problems (Constraints)
3. What to Change To? - Develop solution direction and key principles

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4. What's the Potential? - Project financial and operational impact over 2 years
Assessment Process
Three-Pronged Approach:
1. Discussions - Individual and group meetings with all key functions
2. Direct Observation - Shop floor/office/branch/warehouse visits
3. Data Analysis - Financial and operational data examination
Key Stakeholder Meetings: Directors/Top Management, Marketing & Sales, Design,
Planning, Procurement, Production, Quality, Installation, Service & Spares, Finance,
HR, Cross-Functional Teams, Key Customers & Suppliers (optional)
Required Data:
• 3-year financial and non-financial performance trends
• Operations measures (Lead Time, OTIF, Inventory Turns)
• 104-week transaction data (Purchase, Sales, Production, Inventory, Receivables,
Payables)
• Sample Bill of Materials for key products
• 2-year projections
The "Salt in Recipe" Principle
Like salt in cooking, business decisions require the right balance - neither too little
nor too much. Examples include:
• Pricing (volume vs. margins)
• Product variety (customer choice vs. complexity)
• Inventory levels (availability vs. carrying costs)
• Project timing (early start vs. late start)
• Quality assurance (inspection vs. self-certification)
Finding the optimal range for such decisions requires systematic analysis, not
compromise or extremism.
Assessment Output
Our assessment reveals insights that appear obvious in hindsight but were
completely missed:

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1. Learning Organization Assessment - Productivity trends indicating organizational
learning capability
2. Pareto Principle Analysis - 80/20 distribution across customers, products, partners,
investments
3. Flow Analysis - Material and information flow patterns, physical and logical
constraints
4. Customer Experience Reality - Actual track record of commitment delivery
5. Inventory Behavior - Whether inventory functions as asset or liability
6. Current Reality Picture - Cause-and-effect logic revealing:
o Vicious cycles in daily operations
o Leadership dilemmas ("rock and hard place" situations)
o Single root cause behind all problems
7. Conservative Projections for leverage point solutions:
o Improved customer experience
o Enhanced operational parameters
o Better decision-making SOPs
o Strengthened financial measures
8. High-Level Implementation Steps
9. Implementation and Sustenance Plan

Call to Action
Transform your organization's performance through scientific constraint
identification and leverage point optimization.
Assessment Duration: 5 days (including buffer) Results Presentation: Within 2
weeks of completion Deliverable: Comprehensive roadmap with 2 -year projections
and 13-week implementation plan
Ready to discover your organization's leverage points and unlock exponential
improvement?
Contact YAGNA today to schedule your Business Assessment and begin your
transformation journey.
Our team's 10,000+ hours of Theory of Constraints expertise combined with 100+
years of implementation experience ensures high-confidence success in solving
your business puzzle.