Best Practices
Purpose
Determine best practices in world-class companies in areas of specific interest to our clients.
Provide a benchmark for comparison.
Provide timely case studies that can be used for action planning.
Identify key tactics/implementation methods that contributed to success.
Process
Conduct in-depth secondary literature search using on-line and dedicated methods.
Implement primary research with exemplars. We conduct interviews with subject-matter experts to obtain first-hand knowledge of best practices.
Benefits
Provide perspective to guide management action.
Leverage lessons learned.
Answer specific questions of interest to our clients.
Provide insight and perspective for change efforts.
Case Study
When a major oil and gas company embarked on a strategic operational excellence initiative, needed to benchmark other major oil companies in the areas of operational excellence, HSE, management development, knowledge management, and learning networks.
Result
Extensive secondary and primary research was conducted within 8 weeks to answer the client's questions. The analysis was used to guide the development of strategic operational excellence initiatives at the client's organization.
