SIGMAPOINT TECHNOLOGIES
that has made the effort to create a holistic approach for customers . This level of care , attention , and the ability to reshore also stands as a testament to SigmaPoint ’ s efforts towards SCOPS collaboration .
“ Unfortunately , when operations and supply chain come together , one usually gets repressed by the other . That ’ s not the way it is here ,” says Slaughter . “ Stephane and I are equal partners in this and our teams go at problems together , and it ’ s incredible to have a partner in crime with whom I can go back to the lab and create the ingenuity and vision that will form our future evolution . We ’ re one group looking outwards in both directions , and it ’ s a cradle-to-grave process . We ’ re challenging and disrupting the rules traditionalists lived and live by .”
Scientific thinkers Slaughter and Dubreuil are keen to express that none of SigmaPoint ’ s incredible transformation would have been possible without a strong and like-minded team .
“ Everyone talks about the bottomup structure , but before you can even dream about that you need to have a good top-bottom structure ,” Dubreuil explains . “ You need to engage , strategize , and use that strategy to inspire the workforce . We refer to the team as an army of scientific thinkers ; we give them a direction , and the goal is that they evolve the business so quickly that our competition can ’ t follow .”
While the executives create the vision and act as a think tank , they don ’ t actually run the company : “ It ’ s our managers that do that ,” says Slaughter . “ They take all the tasks , the challenges , the experiments , and make it work . Other companies ’ executives might say “ this is what we ’ re doing , just make it happen ” – but not us .”
Alongside the thinkers stand lean coaches , who have been used for the past two years to measure the team ’ s ability to bridge the gap between the current and future states of the company .
“ The coach monitors the gap by asking questions ,” says Dubreuil . “ It ’ s a way to understand what the team ’ s objective is , what they