operations planning

Your Objectives
Have a sound operational plan that will:

Identify any weaknesses in existing operational systems
Enhance the overall efficiency and profitability of your operation
Optimize your company's resource systems and information handling technologies
Make operations as cost-efficient, time-saving and beneficial to your customers as possible

How We Can Help

Help you conduct a comprehensive audit
- Develop an objective, top-level view of your organization's processes
- Conduct complete examination and assessment of process details, strengths, and weaknesses for each of your departments, units or subdivisions
- Conduct detailed analyses of all aspects of the operational process, including staffing, productivity, processes, and information flow
- Determine key areas of weakness that are taking away from the success of the organization
- Develop recommendations on how to address problem areas
- Lay down the framework, if needed, for process reengineering
Help you with overall staff productivity
- Develop/review productivity programs, including workflow analysis and time tracking
- Develop methods improvement and incentive systems
Help you conduct process reviews
- Examine the key processes in depth
- Reexamine what is needed from each process and the actual output of each process
- Determine the most effective processes and make recommendations for improvements
Help you conduct systems analysis
- Analyze the flow of information
- Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment
- Make recommendations based on needs and resources available

Benefit
You benefit by:

Anticipating and identifying problem areas before they become too large to address
Avoiding redundant or inefficient operational processes
Ensuring that the most efficient practises are in place

Our Experience
Our experience includes:

Numerous planning studies involving the development of operating policies and procedures, staffing requirements, and operating budgets
Analysis of major operating problems for a German/Estonian joint venture involving on-site investigations in Tallinn and Moscow
Review of operations and staffing levels of health care facilities in Hamburg involving the determination of appropriate staffing levels and the impact on required financial resources