We provide a very thorough business process assessment, which is designed to give you a snapshot of your current situation along with potential options for improvement. We will help you identify the holes within the organization and assist you in making the types of changes that can have an immediate impact on the way your business is conducted on a day-to-day basis.
We begin the assessment by gathering information about your current practices and results and link this information back to your organizational mission and objectives. The data we use typically come from a variety of sources and are gathered in a variety of ways. We gather information from documentation reviews, interviews, questionnaires, context diagrams, business meetings, focus groups, steering committees, and review sessions. We then consolidate this information into an enterprise relationship map, which presents an overview of the business processes.
Once we have gathered and consolidated the data, we present it for review and approval. We then move forward and analyze your current practices to ensure that they are aligned with your future plans. We use these findings to construct a future enterprise map, which includes a blueprint for improving the organization. We then create options for improvements that outline the impact each option would have on the organization, the cost of implementing each change, the required duration to effect the change, and the expected benefit each modification would return to the shareholder.
These options are presented for approval and once a final package is selected, we create an upgraded enterprise map draft a final report and design an implementation planned. The entire process can take as little as two weeks or as long as six months, depending on the size and complexity of the organization.
The advantage to using this model is that the organization can evaluate any proposed actions before they are included in the action plan. This provides the organization with a comprehensive understanding of the plan and the various initiatives before they are put into place and prevents them from second guessing themselves once the changes have been put into place. The organization knows it is supporting the strategic plan by the very nature of the business process.
