Change Management, Management of Change (MOC)

 

Whether the change is large or small, the ability to manage change is a critical competency for all companies who want to remain in the game.

econsultants helps organizations prepare for coming changes, manage the complex organizational and workforce transition to the desired end state, operate successfully once a business solution or transformation is in place and realize the greatest long-term value from their business improvement efforts

 

To be productive today, a workforce has to do much more than just increase throughput. It must rapidly introduce and ramp up new business processes and technologies; learn new skills and tasks quickly; and increase efficiency to continuously reduce operating costs. At the same time, the company must be able to manage and support that type of productivity across the enterprise.

econsultants understands that such productivity is the result of many complex, interrelated factors, ranging from technology and processes to culture and incentive and reward systems.

Basically the process can be divided in :

 

1.       Awareness – of why the change is needed

2.       Desire – to support and participate in the change

3.       Knowledge – of how to change

4.       Ability – to implement new skills and behaviors

5.       Reinforcement – to sustain the change

 

The econsultants Management's model will detect trends in the macroenvironment as well as in the microenvironment so as to be able to identify changes and initiate programs. We will estimate what impact a change will likely have on employee behaviour patterns, work processes, technological requirements, and motivation. The Management assess what employee reactions will be and craft a change program that will provide support as workers go through the process of accepting change.

In the next phase the program will be implemented, disseminated throughout the organization, monitored for effectiveness, and adjusted where necessary.

 

 

Lean Manufacturing Management (LMM)

 

Lean manufacturing is a generic process management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS) but also from other sources. It is renowned for its focus on reduction of the original Toyota 'seven wastes' in order to improve overall customer value. Lean is often linked with Six Sigma because of that methodology's emphasis on reduction of process variation (or its converse smoothness). Toyota's steady growth from a small player to the most valuable and the biggest car company in the world has focussed attention upon how it has achieved this.

For econsultants, Lean is the set of TPS of 'tools' that assist in the identification and then steady elimination of waste (muda), quality is improved, production time and costs are reduced. To solve the problem of waste, our Lean Manufacturing method has several 'tools' at its disposal:

1. Continuous process improvement (kaizen), the "5 Whys".
2. Mistake-proofing (poka-yoke).
3. Focus is upon implementing the 'flow' or smoothness of work (mura) through the system and not upon 'waste reduction' per se.
4. Techniques to improve flow include production levelling, "pull" production (by means of kanban) and the Heijunka box.

 

The implementation of smooth flow exposes quality problems which always existed and thus waste reduction naturally happens as a consequence. The advantage for this approach is that it naturally takes a system-wide perspective whereas a 'waste' focus has this perspective assumed.

 

 

Outsourcing Management (OM)

 

Outsourcing often refers to the delegation of non-core operations from internal production to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation.

The econsultants Outsource Management is set to guard the interest of lowering firm costs, redirecting or conserving energy directed at the competencies.

Furthermore it comprises the services to make more efficient use of worldwide:

1. Labor
2. Capital
3. Technology
4. Resources

Some of the major advantages our clients can expect to obtain through outsourcing include the ability to purchase intellectual capital, to focus on core competencies, to better anticipate future costs, to lower costs. Overall outsourcing is viewed by many of our clients as a strong business tactic that ultimately is a superior economical approach to developing products and services.

 

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