Boot Camp

Learning through doing

An intensive, fast-paced experience that equips teams with the tools and mindset needed to kickstart their change journey as they implement the Tatham System.

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Your company’s leaders, challengers and risk-takers. Give them permission to unplug and step out of their comfort zone .

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The Boot Camp simulator can be experienced anywhere. In person or virtual. Let our seasoned facilitators ignite, motivate and inspire for the challenges ahead.

Active & Engaged

Less talk, more action. It’s not a seminar. It’s an experience that will get your synapses singing. You’ll learn by doing and applying yourself, through critical thinking and problem solving.

How Boot Camp Works

Boot Camp takes participants through four iterations of a business transformation, starting from a sub-optimal operation and evolving to a high-reliability, customer-focused organization.

  • Break-Down

    As you work within our simulated operation, you’ll quickly experience how the typical pressure to perform cascades into a reactive problem-solving mode that fails.

  • Methodical Rebuilding

    Our structured approach leads you to develop metrics, understand the root cause of problems, apply cause-and-effect analysis and experimentation tools to build efficacy and reliability into the process.

  • Implementation

    Teams leverage insights and apply new tools and skills to minimize rework, measure improvements, and validate solutions through live simulation.

  • Automation

    After the process is redesigned and successfully tested, automation is applied to scale solutions across the organization – where it adds value rather than masks process flaws.

  • Application

    Teams create specific action plans to implement their learnings as they prioritize business challenges, apply new tools and methods, and measure their successful results.

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WHAT WILL YOUR ORGANIZATION GAIN FROM BOOT CAMP?

Boot Camp transforms the way participants view their roles, their processes, and their customers. It creates a shared mindset and toolset, with infectious excitement for the opportunities they can envision themselves seizing.

  • Common Language

    The words customer, alignment, measurement, rework, cause-and-effect, experimentation, process (and more) take on new meaning as you focus your learning on your own processes and organizations.

  • Critical Thinking

    Boot Camp facilitation enables you to apply your wisdom and experience as you tackle the challenge of delivering quality and timely products, while enhancing your ability to approach problem-solving using our systematic method.

  • Expanded Toolkit

    Rather than paper the walls with documentation of every step in every process, we guide you to prioritize your process review time, focus your efforts efficiently, and use data-based tools and methods to diagnose, experiment, and implement as you develop robust, reliable processes.

  • Heightened Engagement

    You’ll evolve the operation from isolated departments to focusing on the entire customer-driven business process, with goals and reward systems aligned so everyone is highly engaged in the overall result.

  • High ROI

    Our clients have achieved significant, measurable gains in revenue, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and speed-to-market by applying their Boot Camp experience within their organizations.

Virtual Boot Camp

Kickstart your change journey remotely.

In a distributed team environment, culture and collaboration continue to be of utmost importance. Remote experiential learning and access to effective toolkits are critical in order to continue to support new ways of learning and working.

  • “Boot Camp is a great tool to help everyone see the possibilities and to engage them into action. I will stop doing this work when I see improvements stop or slow down. And I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future."

    —Ron Beatum, CEO, Equitable Life

  • “Boot Camps are unique experiences that you will find personally rewarding and revitalizing. Very positive benefits are becoming evident in the Hubble Space Telescope operations and ground systems project."

    —Joseph Rothenberg, Associate Director, NASA

  • “The most important aspect of Boot Camp and the Tatham Approach is that it focuses your efforts to craft a solution on the source of the problem or impediment. Boot Camp is the best way I know to focus the attention of a team on what really matters, to create a shared vision of our collective objectives. And then the practical tools and approach to experimentation help you chart an efficient and effective path to a higher level of performance.”

    —Greg Davidson, Director, Capture Center at Northrop Grumman

  • “Participating in the Tatham's Boot Camp, we came away equipped with the means and opportunity to change the way we do business. We now think about our business in new and exciting ways building new capabilities and setting the stage for innovation, execution, team member engagement and simply delighting our customers."

    —Kirk Bare, SVP, Wells Fargo

  • "I found the Boot Camp approach to business improvement exceptional. It is a deceptively simple approach to solve any kind of problem. We ran hundreds of Boot Camps at our facilities around the world. We ran camps to attack problems in both the manufacturing and administrative areas."

    —Steve Roberts, President and CEO, Roberts and Associates

  • “Tatham’s Boot Camp is an intense, valuable and thoroughly enjoyable experience. The interactive and engaging simulation of a classic challenge faced in business will leave you asking questions, demanding answers and searching deep into every part of your organization to do better for your Customers. Highly recommended."

    —Doug Brown, CEO, Canada Life UK