It was somewhere in 2012, the local Saudi business group Alliance Holding which runs General Lighting Company went for business partnership with American multinational Carlyle group. We can say this is the start point of thinking about “Lean” for the success in the organisation. Some lean experts from Carlyle group made few visits to think about lean manufacturing with the top management of JV of General Lighting Company and Carlyle. In this period, the management started to look to hire a consultant to implement the lean tools. Various lean consultants were considered but finally decided to go with Symbios because of two reasons:
- Their presence in the Middle East region from long time and know the culture of the local as well as expat people working in this region.
- Their customer base mostly with manufacturing industries
