314: Breaking Through Business Borders: Broaden Your Reach, with Lean Solutions Group
Hunter Bell of Lean Solutions Group shares his journey into the supply chain industry, which was heavily influenced by his father's long career in transportation logistics. He explains how Lean Solutions Group was founded to tap into the bilingual, educated talent pool in Colombia to solve staffing shortages for U.S. companies. Bell emphasizes that managing remote teams effectively requires clear KPIs, data-driven insights, and technology to mitigate risks and ensure productivity. He illustrates this with a powerful case study of a client that scaled to nearly a billion in revenue by outsourcing their back-office functions.
Today I’m joined by Lean Solutions Group, a super-successful business service provider that’s using its impressive suite of solutions to make scaling simple.
Lean Solutions Group is a nearshore and offshore services provider with a highly scalable and flexible workforce of 7,000 employees with operations at seven satellite offices in Colombia, Guatemala, and the Philippines. Partnering with more than 500 U.S.-based companies, Lean Solutions Group’s expanded service offerings include staffing, technology, marketing, sales, and business process outsourcing services, all in one place.
Today Hunter Bell, Senior Account Executive at Lean Solutions, joins me to chat all about the company and what they do; overcoming recruitment challenges; making scaling simple; the power of ‘global shoring’; and how to broaden your reach, without borders.
Hunter’s journey, how he came to join Lean Solutions and why logistics is in his blood.
How Lean Solutions Group was founded, its evolution, and an overview of what they do now.
How staffing has changed since the pandemic, the current labor challenges, and the opportunities provided by embracing satellite and remote teams.
A closer look at the process of working with Lean Solutions, from identifying a business’s key needs to working on process efficiencies.
The challenges involved in remote working, and how Lean works to solve them.
How Lean can help organizations to mitigate the risks involved in remote staffing.
Utilizing data to better understand productivity, and how Lean can support in understanding those data insights.
The ideal client for Lean Solutions.
What onboarding and integration looks like with Lean Solutions.
A case study showing how Lean helped a brokerage with their back end so they could focus on achieving fast growth, ultimately supporting that company to grow from $30-40 million a year to close to $1 billion.
The future for Lean Solutions. “There are a lot of good people everywhere in this world – we’re just looking to find them and connect them with our customers!”
Resources & Links Mentioned
- Head over to Lean Solution’s website now to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Lean and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram, or you can connect with Hunter on LinkedIn.
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