For owners of Industrial SMEs - 10 to 200 employees
Set the direction.
Build the habits that carry it.
Watch it keep running.
Turn your company into a self-running machine in 150 days - one that moves toward your vision without you in every room, every decision.
A real conversation, not a sales pitch. Bring your hardest questions.
You built something real.
So why does it still run on you?
EVERY DECISION LANDS ON YOUR DESK
Quotes, quality calls, planning conflicts, customer escalations — if you're not in the room, it waits for you. The business depends on a person, not a system.
YOUR DAYS DISAPPEAR INTO FIREFIGHTING
You spend your energy holding things together instead of moving them forward. The urgent eats the important, every single week.
MARGINS LEAKS SILENTLY
Rework, waiting, excess stock, late deliveries. Costs, energy and supply volatility have removed the buffer that used to absorb inefficiency.
YOUR BEST PEOPLE ARE DRIFTING
People stay where they can see and trust a way of working. Without one, your most valuable employees quietly start looking elsewhere.
None of this means your business is broken. It means it outgrew the way it runs.
And nobody sells a fix built for your size. Here's why.
Two fitting solutions not fit for purpose.
Strategy Consultancies
THE PROBLEM
Cost
Priced and structured for multinationals..
Time
Months of analysis before anything changes on the ground.
Output
A strategy document - not an operational system to deliver it.
Operational Excellence Firms
THE PROBLEM
Mandate
Efficiency, not direction.
Focus
They optimise what exists - not what your business is trying to become.
Horizon
Today's operations, disconnected from tomorrow's ambition.
We close the gap
TEAMCEL
Built for the gap.
Strategic direction and the operational system to deliver it
One team, one engagement, fit for your business
Direction
Know exactly where you’re heading and define a strategy rooted in your operational reality.
Delivery
An operational system, DRIVES™ that runs your strategy, day after day.
Fit
Scoped, paced and priced for your company - you feel impact in weeks, not months.
"The gap between the two is where industrial SMEs get stuck:
A strategy the operations cannot deliver, and operations improving toward a destination nobody checked."
Francois Chamoreau - Founder & Managing Director of Teamcel
All the parts - No grease
A gear mechanism with every part assembled but no grease doesn't run; or runs briefly, then seizes.
Most industrial SMEs are that gear mechanism. The people are there. The product is real. The customers exist. Even the strategy is known. But without a system connecting daily operational decisions to where the business is going - consistently, across every team - the parts work against each other as much as with each other.
TeamCel is the grease.
Not a replacement for your people or your know-how. The system that makes them run together, toward the same point.
Everything it takes
to run without you
Diagnostic & Direction
We put two things side by side:
Where your business is trying to go, and how it actually runs today.
We map every gap between them. Most leadership teams have never had that conversation in one room. You leave with a clear, written direction every future decision can be tested against.
DRIVES™ Methodod
A complete operational framework designed for companies your size - deployed in weeks, not years. It starts with Direction, then builds capability, engagement, visibility, improvement and standards on top of it.
On-Site Expertise
We don't hand you a report and leave. We work alongside you and your managers until the system runs on its own.
DRIVES™
Operational Excellence that starts with Direction
Built for SME Scale and Pace
Direction
Decide where the business is headed before you start fixing how it runs day to day. Every decision after that gets checked against this direction.
Rise
Teach your people the specific skills they need to reach that direction; not generic training, just what actually moves things forward.
Inspire
Turn your people into a team that actually works as one. It's achievable; once everyone sees how their part fits into the direction.
Visualise
Check regularly whether things are actually moving the right way, and keep everyone informed through clear, consistent updates across the company
Enhance
Use proven improvement methods; but only where they actually help reach the direction. Fix the right problems, not just any problem.
Standardise
Make the improvements permanent, so the business doesn't depend on one person holding it all together.
Every other methodology starts with processes and inefficiencies.
DRIVES™ always starts the same way: figure out where the business is going.
Get that first - everything after gets easier.
Built for Industrial SMEs
TeamCel is for owners and managing directors of industrial companies with 10 to 200 employees who are done firefighting and ready to build a business that runs and then grows
This Program is perfect for you if:
You run a manufacturing or industrial services company with 10 to 200 people
You have a vision for the company, but you struggle to turn it into an action plan
You want the business to run fine even when you're not there
You want your company on solid footing before you grow
This Program is NOT for you if:
You just want to cut costs fast, nothing more
You want someone else to handle it - without you being involved
You don't want your managers involved in making the changes
You want results without changing how you currently work
From first call to self-running:
The 150-day path
DISCOVERY
Free Discovery Call
A real working conversation about your situation — your bottlenecks, your goals, your doubts. Bring every question you have. You'll leave knowing exactly whether this fits, with zero obligation.
D&D
Diagnostic & Direction
In a matter of days, we map where your business is going against how it runs today, with you and your leadership team. You get a written direction and a decision framework — yours to keep, whatever you decide next.
DRIVES™
Deploy DRIVES™ Operating System
We build the system with your people, step by step: capability, engagement, visibility, targeted improvements. Your first visible wins land within the first 30 days.
STEP BACK
Standardise & Step Back
The new way of working becomes the way things are done, documented, owned by your team, tracked without you chasing anyone. First the business runs steadily without you. Then it has something solid to grow on.
What this delivers when it's pointed the right way
−50%
It is common for SMEs to see lead times reduced by 50%, logistics waste cut by 90%, WIP reduced by 95%, and throughput doubled or tripled.
NIST - US National Institute of Standards and Technology
+150%
Cycle times decrease by 70% and productivity increases by 150% when the transformation is systemic - covering processes, management, skills, and behaviors
McKinsey & Company
69%
69% of the value created comes from the business itself - operational performance rather than financial leverage
Capital Dynamics & Technische Universität München
Teamcel was built from nearly two decades
on both sides of the gap.
Founder François Chamoreau has worked inside large multinationals (where strategy exists but takes years to reach operations) and inside industrial SMEs, where strategy and operations collide daily. DRIVES™ was built from that vantage point.
What will change with our support?
Real outcomes from business owners
Your Week Today
- Every decision the system should make lands on your desk because no system exist
- Alignment happens when you're in the room, and drifts when you're not
- You run the business by holding it together - there's no bandwidth left to grow it
Your Week With Teamcel
- The business moves toward the strategic direction without you in every conversation
- Operational decisions are made against a shared framework - not escalated upward
- You focus on where the business is going, not on holding together how it runs
First, the business runs steadily without you.
Then - and only then - it has something solid to grow on.
Start with a conversation
Book a free discovery call. Bring your hardest questions: about your bottlenecks, about the method, about whether this can work in your company. If it's a fit, the next step is Diagnostic & Direction.
If it's not, you'll know within one call.
FAQ
A working session with you and your leadership team where we put two things side by side: where your business is trying to go, and how it actually runs today. You leave with a written direction and a decision framework. It's the foundation of everything else - and it's yours to keep whatever you decide next.
Lean and process improvement are part of what we do. But they come fifth in our sequence, not first. Most companies get this wrong: they start fixing how things work before they've even decided where they're going. DRIVES™ starts with Direction. Everything else, including process improvement, comes after.
Almost certainly - and it will be faster for you. Most SMEs have a strategy in the owner's head or in a slide deck; very few have one their operations can be tested against daily. The Direction step turns yours into exactly that.
The Diagnostic & Direction (D&D) takes days, not months. A full DRIVES™ deployment typically runs about 150 days. Your first visible wins land within the first 30 days.
No. The system is built inside your normal operations, with your people, at a pace your business can absorb. That's precisely why it's designed for SMEs. Corporates have the resources you don't - and the inertia you don't. SMEs are flexible and agile where big organisations can't be. That's precisely why this works in weeks, not years.
Three levels, depending on how far you want us involved - from the Direction Diagnostic alone to full deployment with on-site expertise. See the Pricing page for details, or ask us directly on the discovery call.
Either it's a fit and we propose the D&D (Diagnostic & Direction) as the next step, or it isn't and we tell you so. No follow-up sequences, no pressure. The call itself is designed to be useful to you either way.
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