Business Management Consulting
Your organizational strategy defines the future of your business, including your business model, plans for growth, and ways of defending against external threats and competition. In recent years, many organizations have cut back or eliminated strategic planning, rationalizing that it was too difficult, given the rapid pace of change. But as many have learned, a realistic, obtainable business model and strategy are essential for survival. The challenge for most is to find the time, resources, and expertise to do strategic planning effectively.
As a management consulting firm, we help clients meet the most demanding and complex business issues head-on—developing, road-mapping, and implementing strategic plans. Our business consulting services include assessing the current situation, making recommendations for organizational alignment, identifying potential acquisitions/divestitures, offering competitive intelligence, improving business processes, and measuring business performance.
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is a management process for evaluating your current business, determining your strategic direction, and road-mapping the strategic plan in practical actions. A strategic plan explains why your organization exists, what you are trying to accomplish, and the tactics you will take to achieve its goals and objectives. Our consultants help organizations assess your business strategy and communicate it clearly. We also help business leaders implement your strategic plan throughout your organization.
Project and Program Management
Business success often depends on project and program success. Yet many organizations do not have core competencies in program and project management. Organizational leaders may be skilled in managing day-to-day operations but may lack the experience to effectively manage large or complex projects. And those few managers that do have the background or experience often don’t have the time to focus on full-time project or program management.
HKA Strategy can provide experienced talent for project and program management. Our project managers have a proven track record of successfully managing large-scale and complex projects in a variety of industries. They have the technical skills needed to plan and track complex projects with interrelated tasks and shared resources. They have the soft skills needed to build and manage cohesive cross-functional project teams. Our project managers can be engaged to directly lead client projects or they can serve in an advisory and coaching role to the client’s in-house project manager. In addition, we can assist the organization in developing those core competencies and processes needed to effectively manage such initiatives in-house in the future.
Business Process Improvement
Having the right strategy is the first step. However, execution of the strategy is crucial, and here many organizations falter. Often, the problem is in business processes that do not serve the customer or are inefficient. Sometimes, the process is broken and needs to be completely reengineered or redesigned. In other cases, the process is sound, but it is inefficient and needs to be improved. In either case, our business consultants can help you analyze existing processes, identify problems and bottlenecks, and redesign or improve the processes to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. Our consultants bring an array of tools and methodologies to your organization, including process mapping, creative brainstorming, business process reengineering (BPR), best practices, benchmarking, change management, and Six Sigma.