Business Consulting
Operations Consulting
The largest slice of the consulting market. Every job below is scoped in estimated hours before work starts.
- Operations audit
- Process mapping
- Process improvement
- Business process re-engineering
- Lean implementation
- Six Sigma
- Kaizen facilitation
- Theory of constraints
- Capacity planning
- Productivity improvement
- Cost reduction program
- Waste reduction
- Quality management system
- ISO 9001 implementation
- Standard operating procedure development
- Workflow documentation
- Supply chain strategy
- Supply chain optimization
- Procurement strategy
- Vendor selection and negotiation
- Inventory optimization
- Demand planning
- Logistics optimization
- Warehouse layout and design
- Distribution network design
- Manufacturing optimization
- Production planning
- Maintenance strategy
- Facilities planning
- Service delivery design
- Customer service operations
- Call center optimization
- Field service optimization
- Outsourcing strategy
- Shared services design
- Offshoring assessment
- Business continuity planning
- Crisis management planning
- Operational risk assessment
- Performance management system
Jobs people actually ask us for in Operations Consulting
Real requests with the hours they usually take. Every one is scoped and priced before work starts.
Map how a recurring business process currently works.
How the process actually runs today written down, including the undocumented workarounds.
Find unnecessary manual steps in an existing process.
The manual steps that no longer earn their place identified and removed.
Turn an informal process into a documented workflow.
An informal habit turned into a documented workflow anyone can follow.
Create a task-assignment workflow.
A task-assignment workflow so work has an owner and a deadline.
Create an approval workflow.
An approval workflow with clear thresholds and no bottleneck of one person.
Create a client onboarding process.
A client onboarding process from signed to started, with nothing forgotten.
Create a client offboarding process.
A client offboarding process covering files, access, final invoice and feedback.
Create an employee onboarding process.
An employee onboarding process covering accounts, equipment, training and first week.
Create an employee offboarding process.
An employee offboarding process that closes accounts and recovers assets.
Create a vendor onboarding process.
A vendor onboarding process covering details, access and expectations.
Create a purchase approval process.
A purchase approval process with limits that match the risk.
Create an expense approval process.
An expense approval process with receipts and sign-off built in.
Create a file naming and organization system.
A file naming and folder convention people will actually keep to.
Create a shared-drive folder structure.
A shared-drive structure with permissions that make sense.
Create a project kickoff process.
A kickoff process so projects start with scope, roles and dates agreed.
Create a project closeout process.
A closeout process capturing delivery, handover and lessons.
Create a recurring quality-control checklist.
A quality-control checklist run on a schedule.
Create a service-delivery checklist.
A service-delivery checklist so every customer gets the same standard.
Create a weekly operating rhythm for a small team.
A weekly operating rhythm: the meetings and reports that keep a small team aligned.
Create a monthly management reporting process.
A monthly management reporting process that produces the same pack every month.
Create a simple capacity or workload tracker.
A capacity tracker showing who is overloaded before they say so.
Create an issue-escalation process.
An escalation process with triggers, owners and timeframes.
Create a business continuity checklist for critical digital systems.
A continuity checklist for the digital systems the business can't trade without.
Identify which repetitive office tasks should be automated first.
An honest ranking of which repetitive tasks are worth automating first.
Redesign a messy digital workflow so fewer things fall through the cracks.
A messy workflow redesigned so fewer things fall through the cracks.
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