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Facilitating Vision and Strategy

Facilitating Vision and Strategy

Facilitating Vision and StrategyWe always start our discussions with our clients on the direction that they want to go over the next 3 to 5 years. This is a critical process and one where a number of areas are evaluated including:

  • The growth expectations of the business
  • The systems to support that growth
  • The people and skills to implement growth
  • The infrastructure/ building and logistics requirements to facilitate growth

Following this review we identify a clear action plan to move the business forward, including training needs. If necessary we work with our client to put together a succession plan or a plan to prepare the business for sale.

This process is an important facilitation role that clients appreciate as they are prompted to look at things in different ways and invariably derive radical solutions to support growth.

Case Study: Smith Medical

 

Facilitating Vision and Strategy

Facilitating Vision and StrategyWe always start our discussions with our clients on the direction that they want to go over the next 3 to 5 years. This is a critical process and one where a number of areas are evaluated including:

  • The growth expectations of the business
  • The systems to support that growth
  • The people and skills to implement growth
  • The infrastructure/ building and logistics requirements to facilitate growth

Following this review we identify a clear action plan to move the business forward, including training needs. If necessary we work with our client to put together a succession plan or a plan to prepare the business for sale.

This process is an important facilitation role that clients appreciate as they are prompted to look at things in different ways and invariably derive radical solutions to support growth.

Case Study: Smith Medical

 

Accelerating Innovation and time of products to market

Today the need to bring products first is critical to many businesses survival.  First mover advantage gives a company early revenue, high visibility and the opportunity to cement market leadership.  [W]sq solutions have produced a clear methodology and facilitated process called NPD Accelerator to enable organisations to reduce the time it takes to launch products and services into the marketplace.  NPD Accelerator is a product that has been used successfully for a range of manufacturing and service organisations with incredible success reducing the time of bringing new products to market by as much as 40 & 50% for a number of companies.

Case Study: Building Products Manufacturer

Accelerating Innovation and time of products to market

Today the need to bring products first is critical to many businesses survival.  First mover advantage gives a company early revenue, high visibility and the opportunity to cement market leadership.  [W]sq solutions have produced a clear methodology and facilitated process called NPD Accelerator to enable organisations to reduce the time it takes to launch products and services into the marketplace.  NPD Accelerator is a product that has been used successfully for a range of manufacturing and service organisations with incredible success reducing the time of bringing new products to market by as much as 40 & 50% for a number of companies.

Case Study: Building Products Manufacturer

Operational Effectiveness

Having an operation that is effective and efficient is essential in todays low cost producing economy.  [W]sq solutions have been instrumental in reviewing businesses operational effectiveness by reviewing the key processes and skills within an organisation.  From this work a number of recommendations are presented.  Follow up reviews with the client are key to ensure that the recommendations are implemented and that the client is getting the return on those recommendations.  In many cases we have either turned an operation from loss to profit or made the activity more efficient allowing the company to boost margins.

Case Study: Brett Waste Management

Operational Effectiveness

Having an operation that is effective and efficient is essential in todays low cost producing economy.  [W]sq solutions have been instrumental in reviewing businesses operational effectiveness by reviewing the key processes and skills within an organisation.  From this work a number of recommendations are presented.  Follow up reviews with the client are key to ensure that the recommendations are implemented and that the client is getting the return on those recommendations.  In many cases we have either turned an operation from loss to profit or made the activity more efficient allowing the company to boost margins.

Case Study: Brett Waste Management

Business Transformation and Implementation

From time to time businesses need to be merged, acquired or turned around very quickly.  The skills within [W]sq solutions ensure that we can provide a forensic approach to business, identify rapid solutions and more important fill the skills gap within companies by project managing or facilitating the implementation.  Our experience has demonstrated that organisations who have a clear implementation plan to turnaround or acquisition activities invariably succeed in integrating and stabilising the business.  We understand that process and here to help.

Case Study: Creators Europe

Business Transformation and Implementation

From time to time businesses need to be merged, acquired or turned around very quickly.  The skills within [W]sq solutions ensure that we can provide a forensic approach to business, identify rapid solutions and more important fill the skills gap within companies by project managing or facilitating the implementation.  Our experience has demonstrated that organisations who have a clear implementation plan to turnaround or acquisition activities invariably succeed in integrating and stabilising the business.  We understand that process and here to help.

Case Study: Creators Europe

Training, Coaching and Mentoring

Training is a broad area but invariably due to the senior individuals that we see we are asked to provide either mentoring or coaching at senior level or training for senior managers within the organisations.

Wherever possible we seek to impart personal skills to the clients’ staff on projects, so that they are not dependent on our involvement following our completion of our work.

Case Study: Paul Henry Architects

 

Training, Coaching and Mentoring

Training is a broad area but invariably due to the senior individuals that we see we are asked to provide either mentoring or coaching at senior level or training for senior managers within the organisations.

Wherever possible we seek to impart personal skills to the clients’ staff on projects, so that they are not dependent on our involvement following our completion of our work.

Case Study: Paul Henry Architects

 

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Accelerating Innovation and time of products to market

Business Advice Brief

To create a step change in the innovation culture throughout the business leading to 'right first time' product development and a greater impact of new products to turnover and profitability.

Business Profile

This market leading building products manufacture supplied products via distributors.  The current culture of the company was one of 'over the wall development' (in other words we make it,you sell it) with the result of no ownership once the product failed in the market place.  Team working was non-existent and project management was a by-word.  Products were late and invariably did not produce the profit margins expected.

Business Advice Solution

The Board was sold on the importance of innovation as a driver to the business and the impact that a clear innovation strategy would have on margins and profitability.

From this base a number of cross functional teams were created to ensure that all aspects of the business had a say in the development of a new product.  This core team developed the innovation process by critiquing the existing process and creating achievable solutions to speed the process up.   Suppliers were brought in at an earlier phase of the design process to aid the development of the new product.  Concepts were prototyped and discussed with key clients before the tooling was procured.

Benefits to the business

The benefits to the business were numerous:

  • Time to market for products was reduced by 40% from 14 months to an average of 8 months.
  • New service initiatives were introduced (innovation culture fostered new ideas).
  • Customer loyalty and satisfaction increased through their involvement in the product definition and design phases.
  • Ideas culture was enhanced through the creation of a central database which collected ideas from all over the company and provided a means for 'sifting' ideas against the business strategic objectives.
  • A rewards and recognition policy was put into place to cater for those ideas that had the biggest impact on the customers activities or the profitability of the company.
  • IBM benchmark rated the company in the World Class bracket for Innovation.
  • Project management skills greatly improved throughout the company reducing cost overuns and bringing products to the market place on time.
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