M.O.R.E. Today
We bring people, process and technology together by defining and implementing measurable business value for our clients. M.O.R.E. is supporting clients in the chemical, energy, utility, automotive, industrial goods, consumer products, mining and metallurgical industries. We focus on process and performance improvement and management of complex change where process quality and technology improvement requires behavioral changes at each level of the organization. M.O.R.E.’s success in “Organizational Management of Complex Change” means that we have the depth, breadth and experience. The three founding partners have combined experience of over 100 years; 80 years in careers that led to senior management positions within the chemical industry, 25 years with professional services and consulting. Our experiences include engagements with most of the major and many specialty consulting firms. We have also been in your shoes, working as the client leader when these consulting companies came to support us and our teams. We help the client with precisely what is required to engage their organization, so that personnel are pressed towards results, responsibility and respect while not over extending capabilities.

Rohm and Haas is a $6B Fortune 500 specialty chemical company with over 100 facilities located around the world. In 1998, Rohm and Haas was named one of the World’s Best Managed Manufacturing Companies by Fortune Magazine. Profitability as measured by Return on Net Assets had more than doubled since 1993. Prior to founding M.O.R.E., the partners held senior manufacturing leadership positions within Rohm and Haas Company. They were instrumental in turning Rohm and Haas into an industry leader by making Operational and Reliability Excellence a business driver with the catch phrase “follow the money.” A manufacturing assessment process, best practices, processes and tools were developed with a focus on business profitability, leveraging work that had been started by companies like DuPont and Shell. During this period, senior managers were also privileged with extensive team building training that equipped them with skills to work through their team’s or their clients’ individual and sometimes personal issues that often become barriers when managing complex change.

Western Mining, a $5B Australian metallurgical company, engaged our services in 2004 after reliability failures had eroded shareholder value. The Reliability and Operational Excellence assessment processes and tools developed within Rohm and Haas were leveraged to educate, assess, develop business plans for the sites and implement continuous improvement. The CEO, Andrew Michelmore, was able to regularly report to shareholders that “reliability and consistent performance” were producing a series of quarterly production records and achievements in their copper/uranium and nickel supply chains. Western Mining Company was purchased by BHP Billiton in 2006 with a more than 50% increase in value to the shareholders, prior to the exponential increase in metal prices. M.O.R.E. continued to assist BHP Billiton as immediate results were critical during a period of strong business demand.