A new CEO was assigned responsibility for two organizations whose combined efforts was to provide custom solutions and fulfillment in a highly regulated environment. These organizations were accommodating significant annual growth in volume at a very high level of quality. Operational and technical challenges were limiting their ability to continue to accommodate the increases in volume and pressure from competitors was increasing as they leveraged technology to improve turnaround time and offer lower prices as a differentiation strategy.
Internal capacity had to be improved and costs reduced so that savings could be re-invested in building capacity within the organization.