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Hill Management Consulting |
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The four cornerstones of management are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The organizing and controlling functions are the heart of operations.
Our favorite operations story? The company who couldn’t get cash flow under control, no matter how they tried. We set up a cash-flow forecasting system, and voila!, without any change in sales or spending behavior, they had their cash flow under control in a few short months. Operations successes are always particularly sweet, because the results are so clear, and frequently, so quick.
Whether you want to tie your compensation programs to strategic objectives (which we highly recommend), reduce the cost of your production processes, establish better, more effective relationships with your suppliers, or set up a call center operation, HMC will help you analyze, plan and implement. |
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Operations seem to get the short end of the management glamour factor. Yet without fantastic operations, all the strategic planning, branding, marketing, sales, and service in the world just don’t matter. aaaaa |
Essential if not sexy |
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The key to achieving your strategic plans is in your operations · Analyze processes and eliminate unnecessary steps · Wage and compensation systems benchmarking and design · Quality improvement programs · People management systems · Metric systems · Benchmark against best practices · Decide whether automation is for you, and to what extent · Streamline supply chain operations · Get inventory under control · Get fill rates under control · Master your cash flow with good budgeting and cash flow practices · Decide whether outsourcing or near-sourcing is an option for you The organizing and controlling functions are key to a successful business |
