Taking an entire company into the competitive environment is daunting, especially when not everyone in the company—including a senior manager or two—wants to get on board...
Has your company established the leadership talent to make hard choices and implement dramatic changes to the company's direction and supporting culture?
Does your company have the employee education processes and training programs essential to guiding and assisting people in undergoing a major corporate transition?
Have you eliminated the non-value-adding processes and activities from supporting services?
Does your company effectively leverage from the best practice learnings of others?
We can help find the answers
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Transition Education and Training |
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It is absolutely essential that your employees become familiar with the likely impact of the changes taking place in the utility industry and the ways in which your company can best prepare to capitalize on those changes. We offer a choice of two workshops that will provide your employees with this vital information. The one-day Best Competitive Management Practices workshop will help your top management team learn the ten most important attributes of winning companies and how you can put that information to work for your company.
The two-day workshop—Taking Charge of the New Order in the Energy Industry—will provide all levels of employees, including hourly workers, with a full understanding of the nature, magnitude and depth of changes taking place in the utility industry and what they must do to be survivors and winners. Both workshops can be tailored to your company's situation and presented at your facilities. |
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Best Practices |
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| Our TopMarks™ best practices approach will help you learn from winning competitive world companies the strategies and methods that work for them. Through focused, highly experiential, interactive meetings and discussions with leaders in their class, you will learn how the "best of the best" address the kinds of challenges your company is facing. In addition, we will help you identify the performance gaps at your company for reaching best practice competence levels, and we can help you implement actions for closing those performance gaps. |
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Materials Management |
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| Many companies can achieve major reductions in expenses by making smarter buying decisions and by eliminating duplication and excess inventory. We can help your company accomplish this through more effective organization and implementation of commodity teams. Further, we can help your company plan and manage implementation of new methods for bringing uniformity and simplicity to the naming of individual material and supply items, which generally results in annual inventory reductions of at least ten percent. |
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Support Services |
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| We can help your company make the transition to a bottom-line approach to management and delivery of support/shared services. Our approach is based upon the successful practices of leading companies that have eliminated virtually all of the non-value-adding aspects of support services to permit an unrelenting focus on exceeding internal client expectations. We can help you identify and directly address activities that don't add value. We can help you organize cross-functional teams that will produce shared services and resources that directly support your company's profit objectives. |
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Management Issues |
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What's your biggest challenge in making the transition to a competitive environment?
Finding the right management talent? Organizing and focusing marketing activities and initiatives? Engaging first-line supervisors? Controlling costs? What's your biggest challenge? Let us know, and in our next update we'll provide a Best Practices solution for the most frequently cited issues. |