5 S Business Solutions

What is 5-S Business Solutions?

5-S is a small business advisory helping entrepreneurs achieve their business goals by providing financial and operational consulting and hands-on services.

What does 5-S stand for?

5-S is a system/methodology which originated in Japan and focused on organizing workplaces to reduce waste and optimize productivity.

The S’s stand for:
Sort: Organize
Set in order: Simplify
Sweep: Keep it clean
Standardize: Make it consistent
Sustain: Ensure it lasts

5-S Business Solutions elevates these straightforward concepts, applies them to your business as a whole and translates them into real world solutions through its personalized services.

HOW?
See some example Questions and Answers below:

Do you ever feel that you are spending your time on way too many functions (bookkeeping, sales, marketing, HR) in your business and you’re not as effective as you’d like to be because of it?

We’ll help you Sort! Let’s determine which functions have the biggest impact that you would like to focus on. Keep those close to you and see if it makes sense to outsource the rest or transition them to an internal resource or a combination of both!

Do you ever feel like your to do’s and projects keep piling up and you can’t keep track of things and focus on your customers as much as you’d like?

We’ll help you Set things in order! Let’s prioritize your projects, customers and vendors and make sure you have the right technologies/systems, processes and people in place to assist you!

Do you ever feel like your processes are all over the place, costing you time and money? Or, you just don’t have good visibility into your business?

We’ll help you Sweep! Let’s identify ways to improve upon your messy processes and make them cleaner and more efficient! Let’s put in place the indicators to signal if you are on the right track!

Do you ever feel like you never do things the same way twice so your customer’s experience is inconsistent?

Let’s standardize! Let’s document your processes, roles, responsibilities and put the training in place that will ensure consistency in the way you do things!

Do you ever feel like your efforts don’t catch on as quickly as you’d like them to and sometimes things just revert back to they way they were?

Let’s sustain! Let’s put the management controls, structures and tools in place that enable you to monitor your progress and give you an action plan if you drift off course!

Richard Balazs

Founder & Principal

Richard Balazs is an operations management professional with 20 years of broad experience in all areas of core operations. Throughout his career, he has consistently taken on challenging and multifaceted opportunities in developing, implementing and improving the foundational building blocks of startup, early-stage and mature organizations. Possessing a unique blend of entrepreneurial spirit, strategic and tactical insight and a personable approach has enabled him to achieve results and successes across multiple industries (Financial Services, Management Consulting, Healthcare) and functional areas (Operations, Sales, Finance, Marketing, HR,) while always maintaining a business process improvement, cost efficiency, quality and client satisfaction focus and emphasis on empathy and fun.

Former Director, VP, COO roles
Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Certified QuickBooks Professional

Trusted advisor who understands the operational challenges that entrepreneurs face.

What is 5-S Business Solutions?

What does 5-S stand for?

Do you ever feel like you never do things the same way twice so your customer’s experience is inconsistent? Let’s standardize! Let’s document your processes, roles, responsibilities and put the training in place that will ensure consistency in the way you do things!

About the Founder & Principal

Richard Balazs

Do you ever feel like you never do things the same way twice so your customer’s experience is inconsistent?

Let’s standardize! Let’s document your processes, roles, responsibilities and put the training in place that will ensure consistency in the way you do things!