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She is a Go-To Scientific Expert and Management Leader for  Operations Management, Process Improvement, Productivity Improvement, Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, Visual Management, Six Sigma, Just-in-Time, ISO, QbD, TQM, Kanban, Design Thinking, Hoshin, TRIZ, DFSS, Process Automation, Digital Transformation, Business Turnaround, Continuous Improvement and Innovation Management.

​A true Thought Leader with demonstrated accomplishments, industry awards, certificates, books, patents and several publications in peer reviewed journals. She is appreciated for her knowledge, integrity, innovation, mentoring and collaborative team approach as her leadership style.

She integrates her proficiency in Product-centric product design, QbD, Design Thinking, Scrum, Agile, Lean, Kaizen, DFSS, TRIZ to improve processes, productivity and profitability. Her mantra is to shorten development timelines, build quality-by-design based lean processes and bring products fast-to-market.

Industry specialization:
Shruti drives Operational Excellence, Innovation Management and Continuous Improvement programs in  Pharmaceutical | Chemicals | Biotechnology | Healthcare & Biomedical Research | Supply Chain Logistics | Consumer goods (health & beauty, dyes, detergents) | Mining industry enterprises.

Shruti works with companies to bring about organizational transformation thru her expertise in:
  • Kaizen, TQM and Lean Six Sigma installations.
  • Operational Excellence: Shruti builds excellence and efficiency in your organization by designing effective business processes, culture change and implementing the most current continuous improvement programs that will take your company's performance from being 'good' to 'great'. She leads operational improvement, value stream transformation & cost-reduction initiatives at both manufacturing and service organizations. In addition, Shruti has exceptional proficiency with improving R&D productivity.
  • ​Continuous improvement & Business Turnaround: via process improvement and/or process redesign.
  • Mistake-proofing products and processes: via QbD, FMEA, CAPA, Hoshin, DFM and Poka Yoke.
  • Lean Manufacturing: Shruti creates best-in-class R&D, quality assurance, operations infrastructures and customer-focused capabilities. She streamlines operations to increase productivity and save cost by 40 to 50 percent.​
  • R&D Productivity: Shruti improves R&D productivity by 10- 90% by streamlining and improving R&D business processes, while complying to all applicable regulations and quality criteria.
  • Innovation Management (Lean Innovation): Shruti's approach to innovation strategy & portfolio development begins by diagnosing the client’s current innovation processes and then helping them build distinctive capabilities and organizational culture to drive future performance that would bring right products to market faster. 
  • Audits: Shruti specializes in different types of Internal, External and Third party quality audits such as- Compliance audits, Special investigations/ Due diligence, Operations audits, Departmental reviews and Follow-up audits. She has conducted over 500 quality audits in big and small organizations across the globe.
  • Change Management and Quality Management Systems: Shruti facilitates start-ups and growing companies towards building 'Quality' culture in their organization. She employs various change management tools such as 8D, Kotter, Bridges transition, Lewin change model etc. ​Through effective installation of quality management systems (QMS) Shruti has enabled companies to minimize/ eliminate rejects, recalls, variations, defects and scrap.
  • ​​Collaboration with educational institutions: to create online learning courses.​
Over the span of twenty-one years, Shruti has successfully led
over 165 Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement and 50 Innovation Management projects
​and still counting …​
One of Shruti's notable achievement is leading a Startup R&D and growing it to become
​an international research profit center in just three years! 
To engage Shruti for consulting assignments or to invite her to speak at your conference,
​message via Contact Form or WhatsApp 1.403.969.621

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Shruti's business approach:

  • Balanced: Tackles compliance challenges with thorough balance perspective.
  • Comprehensive: Specializes in guiding clients through all aspects of compliance i.e. From prevention to remediation.
  • Integrated: Understand each client's unique situation, recommend practical quality concepts and work in tandem with her team.
  • Deliberate: Have a laser beam focus on quality, understand how to solve problems.
  • Straight forward: Every proposal reflects an honest assessment of the time and effort that will be required to successfully resolve an issue.

Shruti's work values:

  • Deliver the best to every client as cost effectively as she can.
  • Total commitment to project timelines.
  • Tell the truth as she sees it.
  • Keep client information confidential.
  • Uphold absolute integrity.
  • Provide industry's best practices and customized business solutions.
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