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Strategy
Vision Setting & Refinement
Where would you like your organization to be in three years? Is your organization resilient and shock-proof in the face of uncertainties? Is your vision shared by key members of your organization? We offer to facilitate setting a robust vision for your organization.
Strategic Planning
Having a robust vision is great. Equally great is having a solid plan to turn that vision into a concrete reality. We help you in developing a feasible strategic plan that moves the organization effectively and efficiently toward realizing that great vision. Harmony is key!
Strategy Deployment
This is when the rubber hits the road! We help you put in place metric-supported milestones that enables monitoring and controlling of the plan’s execution in an objective way. You need to have a system of early warning signs to pinpoint progress deficiencies on a real-time basis.
Feasibility Studies
So, somebody comes up with a great idee. Let’s call it a baby vision. We can assist in rationalizing the decision-making process. Among other considerations, we look into generating and evaluating alternatives, mitigating uncertainties, diversification and flexibility.
Operations
Analytics
You will be amazed by the sheer volume of intelligence that can be drawn from the body of data that exists in your organization. Let us show you how such intelligence can (a) be made available with minimal efforts, (b) empower your critical decision-making, and (c) impact your bottom-line.
Quality
Where does quality stand among your competitive strengths? Do you have a clear and shared position on quality? There is cost associated with poor quality, such as defects. There is also cost associated with going overboard with excessive quality. Let us help you strike a smart balance.
Inventory
How much is too much? How much is too little? We help putting together rational inventory policies. Not all SKUs are created equal! Some deserve closer attention. How is your inventory accuracy and storage space efficiency doing? Talk to us.
Value Stream Analysis
Companies and organizations are in the business of delivering value to their customers. Products and services are just the catalysts. How well your people are doing in transforming resources into value? We can help pinpoint and remove wasted efforts and clear obstacles in the flow.
Project Management
We have frequently come across brilliant ideas which never came to fruition or translated into value for those intended. We bring over 30 years of PM experience across the spectrum; from small improvement to capital projects. Let us empower your people to plan and get things done.
Layout
Layout can make or break businesses. A big part of your competitive advantage is decided with layout design. Sometimes, small modifications can make significant impacts on your bottom line. Layouts and floor plans require review, updating or optimization every 18 months on average.
Product/Service Design
No matter how profitable they currently are, no product or service last forever. They all have finite life cycles. We use proven methodologies that guide and rationalize the design processes for your next generation products and services. The same works for updating/upgrading the existing ones.
Cost Structure Analysis
Do we know, with confidence, the marginal contribution of each of our product lines? Otherwise, how can we smarten up our pricing strategy? Which product deserves marketing priority. Critical decisions shouldn’t be made on quicksand foundation. Push the right buttons!
Maintenance Practices Review
How reliable are your production and supporting processes? Do you experience annoying downtimes that take away from your value-adding capacity? How are your maintenance tasks taken care of? Let us take a look and recommend tailored and cost-effective practices with KPIs.
Capacity Planning
How well developed are the three tiers of your planning: long, intermediate and short? Have you exhausted all capacities of your current facility? Maybe you can save new capital investment and exploit the existing capacity to the fullest. Are the bottlenecks known? Let’s have a conversation!
Supply Chain Review
Just like inventory SKUs, not all suppliers are created equal! Some deserve closer attention and perhaps forging strategic partnership with. After all, we are as good as our supply chain. How aligned and integrated your company is with the other key contributors to your supply chain?
Process
Improvement
Every process serves a purpose and should be subject to objective assessment on an ongoing basis. Is there room for improvement? Always! The question is what constitutes improvement? We help you define actionable and achievable improvement targets.
Work Measurement
This is key to many things management care about. Examples are capacity utilization, reward system, layout and flow optimization, setting realistic goals, promising achievable delivery times, and ultimately, profitability. We use proven methods that are effective and efficient.
Productivity
Have you exploited all opportunities for making more with less? Productivity is synonymous to profitability and higher asset utilization. We help you create effective measures to monitor and control productivity at various levels, starting with the workstations on the floor.
Reliability
How consistent your processes are in doing the job successfully every time it is needed? Or is it an on-again-off-again kind of situation? You do not want the ball dropped too often. That takes away from reliability. Let us show you the buttons to push. They are not always obvious.
Redesign
Things change! Markets, products, technology, skills, experience, regulations … Just like products, processes have a life cycle, too. May be its time to redesign, realign or re-engineer a process to match the current conditions. Maybe a minor tweak makes a splash. Let’s revisit!
CCA Gold Seal Accredited Courses
Managing Small Projects
This is one of the most popular training workshops offered by us. The 2-day course is accredited by the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) and Plantek is authorized to issue 2-credit work certifications upon successful completion of the course and its corresponding assessment. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge to help them manage small projects effectively but also appreciate bigger picture projects to which they contribute. Click here for Course outline.
Managing Construction Risk
This is a 2-day course that familiarizes the participants with the concept and techniques of identifying, evaluating and managing construction risk. It is offered to construction firms who support elevating their staff knowledge to world-class standards. We are authorized to issue a 2-credit worth certificate upon successful completion of the course and assessment. We are accredited by the Canadian Construction Association to offer this course per approved outline.