At Nathanson and Company, we have extensive experience analyzing business operations and developing strategies to improve performance and lower costs.  Using our proven rapid assessment methodology, we analyze key existing data to benchmark your operation, uncover the areas in need of improvement and define the potential for cost savings and service level improvement.  We delineate the root causes of all issues, both organizational and market driven, and use our proprietary models and tools and deep experience to develop programs to meet and exceed your strategic goals.

 

Most of the business problems that you encounter are not unique.   We have dealt with the same problems first-hand and know how to solve them quickly and cost-effectively.   When you have a unique issue, we have the experience and creativity to understand the problems and design valuable solutions quickly.

 

We provide you with a detailed understanding of what you can achieve operationally and financially including specifics to improve quality and performance and reduce costs.  We develop a comprehensive roadmap of how to transform your operations from current state to desired state as well as methods to drive continuous improvement.

 

Whether transformation, outsourcing, extended enterprise, mergers/acquisitions or a combination of these services is appropriate for your needs, we lead you through the process to achieve your goals.

 

Rapid assessment is the key

 

Our rapid assessment methodology provides the detailed analysis required to develop a fact based, go forward strategy.

 

Hallmarks of our rapid assessment process include:

 

• We develop a strategy and provide our assessment report in about 4 to 8 weeks

• We utilize our proprietary toolset and a proven approach to systematically learn about the organization

• We look at the organization from many angles so we can effectively identify the real situation even if there is not sufficient data discipline

• We use the facts on the ground, reporting and systems of record to verify or disprove anecdotal information

• We have the operational experience and know how to craft solutions that work in the real world

• Our process drives organizational buy in.  We invest heavily in communications and verification so we build organizational commitment to the proposed change from the outset

• We provide a roadmap to success that includes the workstreams required to implement the solutions and forms the basis of detailed implementation planning.

 

The Rapid Assessment Process

We start by gathering data about your organization through three primary methods :

 

Documentation review

We ask for specific, existing documentation related to your operations such as financials, process and procedure documentation, project analysis, portfolio management statistics and ticket and time reporting.  If the data does not exist, we will obtain the required information through proprietary methods.

 

Surveys

We survey the appropriate in scope managers to understand the work they perform.  Our survey identifies items such as types of work performed, sources of work, team utilization and significant challenges and provides triangulation to the existing data.

 

Interviews

Using a structured interview template, we interview the appropriate key stakeholders, from managers through senior executives, in order to obtain the required data to perform our analysis.

 

Once our data gathering is complete, we analyze the data and produce a comprehensive report that details findings and recommendations that will allow you to transform your organization as required to improve efficiency and reduce cost.  We validate our findings and recommendations with all key players, so the final deliverable contains information that is supported by your team.

 

Our final deliverable includes a program roadmap which outlines how to transform from your current state to the desired future state.