consulting services - project sector

".........in a rapidly changing world, featuring vanishing borders and hot, global competition, all Enterprises, including Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), can and should today perform operationally as the "best in the classroom"......."

• The Industrial Culture area
• The Market/Clients area
• The Project Engineering area
• The Operations area
• The e-Performance area
• Approach and Methods

the industrial culture area

Assessing: enterprise's Industrial Culture and evaluating its main parameters. Recommending: how to shift it to world-class, lean status. (--> guidelines)

Evaluating: enterprise's Organisational Strategies. Recommending: necessary interventions to upgrade to world-class status. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: presence, characteristics and penetration of a Vision and deployment through a company Mission. Recommending: how to strengthen weak aspects. Coaching: how to set up a Lean Vision. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: presence and characteristics of a Change Management system. Recommending: necessary adaptations to upgrade to world-class status. Coaching: how to set it up. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: deployment of the Value-Chain principle on the suppliers and clients sides. Recommending: actions necessary to strengthen weak areas. Coaching: how to deploy it. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: presence and characteristic of an Opportunities Search system within the enterprise. Coaching: how to set it up. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: extent of deployment of the Orientation to Client principle. Recommending: how to strengthen weak areas. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: level of understanding of the Process vs. Function style of organisational structuring - and level of implementation of a Process Structure. Recommending: actions to be undertaken to upgrade to world-class, lean status. Coaching: how to re-engineer an organisational structure "per processes". (--> guidelines)

Assessing: presence and style of a Continuous Performance Improvement system. Recommending: how to perfect it. Coaching: how to start it up. (--> guidelines)

the market/clients area

Assessing: level and style of deployment of cultural principles, values, beliefs and symbols in a strategy addressed to establishing and supporting enterprise's image and corporate communication. Recommending: how to strengthen weak areas. Coaching: how to set up the overall strategy. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the present approach to tendering and preparation of offers and quotes. Coaching: how to tailor the approach in a client-oriented climate - how to re-organise the Proposal Department.

the project engineering area

Assessing: the operational performance of the Technical/Engineering department. Coaching: re-organisation of the department to world-class status.

Assessing: the level of use of the Quality Function Deployment discipline in Project Engineering. Coaching: how to use effectively. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the level of use of the Value Engineering discipline in Project Engineering. Coaching: how to use it effectively. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the level of use of the FMEA and FTA disciplines in Project Engineering. Coaching: how to use it effectively. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the level of use of the Concurrent Engineering discipline. Coaching: how to use it effectively. (--> guidelines)

the operations area

Assessing: if and how the Value Adding Management and Systematic Elimination of Waste disciplines are utilised in Project Operations. Coaching: how to use them practically and effectively. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: present methods for planning, budgeting and scheduling projects. Coaching: how to upgrade to world-class status.

Assessing: present Project Control system. Highlighting: gaps to world-class status. Coaching: how to re-structure the overall Project Control system.

Assessing: if present Project Operations are lean. Recommending: how to improve weak areas. Coaching: how to deploy the Lean Project Management discipline. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the overall Quality Management area. Recommending: how to upgrade to world-class status. Coaching: how to introduce/improve a modern Total Quality Management system. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the overall Plant/Equipment Performance. Recommending: how to upgrade to world-class status. Coaching: how to introduce an effective Total Productive Maintenance program. (--> guidelines)

Assessing: the present Human Resources Management strategy. Highlighting: gaps to progress to world-class status. Coaching: how to introduce/perfect a Total Employee Involvement system in a project-driven environment. (--> guidelines)

You may view my architectural interpretation of the World-Class Project Operations formula by clicking here.

the e-performance area

Assessing: the overall e-strategy and validity of the e-project. Recommending: how to strengthen weak areas. Coaching: how to set up a modern e-strategy for high e-performance. (--> guidelines)

the consulting approach and method

My approach is invariably "hands-on" and addressed to immediate, practical results.

I do not write performance improvement formulas nor issue medicine prescriptions for treatment of problem areas.
I rather let enterprises' people write their own prescriptions and formulas, by "on-the-job training" them and providing interactive coaching.

My consulting methods key-words are: team - creative thinking - interaction.