Sometimes, you need someone to bounce ideas off, or to recommend and more importantly deliver improvements across one or many aspects of your business – this may range from process optimisation to wholesale business transformation. If you are to do this effectively, then it is vital to have an independent and experienced professional to hand. You may struggle to justify this resource full-time and in-house, or you may find that the day-job prevents continuous improvement initiatives from progressing.
Process Improvement
Processes incorporating daily business transactions within an organisation determine what needs to happen to keep it running efficiently. These range from broad procedures for ‘purchase to pay’ or ‘order to cash’, to detailed instructions to perform a particular transaction. The aim is always to maximise the utilisation of costly resources and eliminate all possible waste.We have worked with various organisations to understand the required outputs from, and controls within, a process before mapping these out in detail. A detailed review to maximise effectiveness and eliminate all possible waste results in remapped and fully documented processes. Continuous improvement delivers optimum efficiency, total practicality, and knowledge transfer to you.
Change Management
Any business, procedural or process improvement relies on effective implementation to be successful. Many organisational changes, whether major or minor, are unsuccessful due to a failure to carry out the requisite training, coaching or cultural transformations.The previous project delivery achievements of consult.Autus (ranging from simple policy changes, to ERP systems changes, to shared service centre implementation) are testament to the fact that the necessary issues have been addressed as part of the programme.
Policy and Procedure
It sounds like, and is, something you will want to put off. But the directors must determine how any organisation is to be run. There is a compromise between allowing individual talent to flourish as it should, and maintaining control. As organisations grow, and the command chain lengthens, the need for formal control intensifies.The experience within consult.Autus will ensure we work to provide you with practical balanced policies – clarifying where individual authority ends and control has to begin – and best-practice business procedures.
Achievements range from complete company and financial policy manuals to an individual expense policy, or period-end or forecasting procedures.
Please contact us to discuss, how our experience can help optimise your business processes in line with your required policies and procedures.