Project Management and Process Improvement / Operations Excellence

Project Management Consultancy Services

At HKPS Consulting we manage simple to complex projects with agile experts, and certified PM professionals across domains and industries to deliver goals with constraints.

We cover the entire project lifecycle starting from project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling to closing.

Our approach to PM is to understand your culture and correct-size practices to fit your organizational requirements, aligning our recommended structure, processes, and tools with your goals and resources.

We help your organization in enhancing or establishing effective project management and building your project and program capabilities. We pride ourselves on offering a tailor-made PM Service that assists our clients in defining their project needs, establishing their opinions, and managing project delivery.

Our solutions include resource management, documentation, and implementation management through the critical path method.

How HKPS Consulting’s PM Service can help you?

• Reviewing current project management capabilities and processes.
• Recommendations for better processes and controls.
• Provide an overview of weaknesses in the present process and control.
• Change management and transformation support.
• Support in implementation of new processes, procedures, and tools.

Our Offerings

Resource Management

Resource conflicts and shortages can hamper your ability to deliver. Therefore, having a clear understanding of your resource skillsets and capacity that exist within your company can enable you to balance demand and channel the right resources at right time.

Our Project Management solutions can help you attain, structure, and analyze your resource management knowledge and practices to leverage your talent efficiently while streamlining resource deployment.

We help you with-

Skill identification within your organization– we assist you in uncovering the roles, skills, and resources that are presently available within your organization and help you develop a categorization structure with this data.

Resource optimization and planning– Once you have identified the resources available, you need to have a clear understanding of the availability of these resources to back the initiatives in your project portfolio. We can assist you to perform resource estimates vis-à-vis your resource limitations. We can also help you with ‘what if’ scenarios to allow new initiatives concerning to resource availability and impact.

Our consultants can analyze any added capacity discovered and resource shortages while recommending corrective actions that will give you cost saving and maximum value to the organization. We can provide you with tools, work with your existing tools, and/or help you in procuring the right tools for an effective resource management function scaled to your company’s requirements and size.

Project Management Structure & Staffing – Based on the level of project management maturity in your company and the size of your portfolio we will help you right-size your project management structure & staffing. We will assist you in determining how many project managers and supporting workforce is required to execute the project efficiently. Also, we can help you with assessing the competency of your project managers, encourage a project management culture, create job descriptions, build professional development programs, and outline roles and responsibilities.

Documentation

We help you with project management documentation that includes-

• Estimated project scope, budget, and risks
• Project management plan
• Description of a selected project management methodology and the implementation approach.
• Optimum project schedule.
• Detailed timeline estimates and breakdown into deliverables, work phases, and activities.
• Schedule for optimal resource allocation throughout the project.

Implementation Management

We equip you with the skills and practices necessary to ensure the time, money, and resources invested in your project pay off. Our team will facilitate the implementation process by planning and driving the execution of projects to ensure a streamlined process.

We help you in diagnosing the specific hurdles to successful implementation and delivering targeted interventions vital for sustaining lasting impact. From building capabilities to regenerating held up sales pipelines and resurrecting productivity and cost initiatives, we help organizations identify the change required to succeed and work with them to unravel the next-level performance.

How we can help?

Assess execution readiness- We equip companies with tools to assess their readiness to steer systematic execution and change in transformations.

Coach execution capabilities– Our experienced implementation consultants bring with best-in-class implementation toolkit for successful implementation. We, coach clients, build capabilities, rollout performance management tools, and conduct on-site and virtual observations that enable improvement in performance.

Steer transition – We help in ramping up operations safely. Our consultants will help in navigating the transition path effectively. We work hand-in-hand with you to make sure on-time delivery and sustainable change.

Process Improvement Consultancy Services

Process Improvement is a journey that companies have to undertake to achieve process excellence. It is not a particular event, it may take months or even years, depending upon the organization’s present level of process focus and maturity.

At HKPS Consulting we help you in understanding your process improvement capabilities. We help you discover the steps that you will have to take to address the gaps. With our process improvement consultancy services you can find out how you stand with other organizations in your industry and during the journey also learn how to build a strong foundation for future growth.

How we can help?

Our consultants help you build a sustainable framework for process improvement while creating momentum for process excellence across the organization.

We work with you in identifying the areas of high priority that are vital to your company’s success. Our experts conduct business process framing to identify important issues, steps, and improvements. We provide you with expertise to apply management practices that drive success across the business.

Our consultants are skilled in improvement disciplines such as Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and Process Redesign. We work towards continuous Improvement across industries.

Our Offerings

Lean Management Consulting

Lean Management is an operating philosophy that is designed to focus on what consumers’ value and also to help managers eliminate unnecessary waste. It nurtures a continuous process improvement mindset.

How we can help with Lean Management?

Our Lean consultants work with organizations to build appropriate management infrastructure and toolkit to promote continuous improvement while weeding out the complexities.

We look at your product streams and identify where value is lost and where it is added. We review how you presently plan, execute, schedule, and measure output and also look at how workflows through your operation. We also focus on how your managers react to and control waste and process variation and what tools they have to promote Lean process improvement.

Our experts work in tandem with your team, quantifying and observing the impact of day-to-day operating issues from entering orders, to capacity scheduling and planning, to flow of materials, distribution, and handling. This helps us in identifying gaps in the existing design, operating and management systems, and organizational behavior that are limiting service and throughput.

We work with an integrated team approach while also building or refining management systems. To ensure sustainability, we provide you with coaching, training, and tools needed to control the flow of information and material across the value chain.

Six Sigma Consultancy Services

Overview

With a rapidly changing business environment, the need for process improvement has become imperative for organizations. Therefore, creating high performing processes is vital, thus statistically-driven and globally proven methodology of Six Sigma is widely used and implemented.

Six Sigma process improvement helps in promoting continuous improvements by managing variation and removing defects within a process.

The process involves developing a group of people within the organization who are specialists in methods using statistical, empirical techniques and in quality management skills.

Six Sigma’s most distinctive advantage as compared to other quality management initiatives is that -its link to business results. It enhances the business performance of an organization in terms of quality, productivity, cost, employee capability, profitability, and customer satisfaction by decreasing error rate of all outputs.

Each Six Sigma project has expertized value targets containing-

• Reduce process cycle time
• Reduce costs
• Improve customer satisfaction
• Increase profits

The principles of Six Sigma preach-

• Decision making should be only data-based
• Achieving predictable and stable processes through constant improvement.
• Business processes have characteristics that can be defined, analyzed, measured, controlled, and improved.
• Achieving sustained improvements through a commitment from the whole organization, especially from top-level management.
• Focus on achieving quantifiable and measurable returns basis of verifiable statistical methods and verifiable data instead of assumptions.

Why choose HKPS Consulting for Six Sigma?

We provide you with the expertise and tools you need to accelerate your growth and transform your business.

Our well-defined consulting approach helps keep the assignments predictable and more prone to success. We follow firm project management practices and ensure time-bound delivery of the assignments at hand.

We believe that the best Six Sigma consultants will want to educate people but also ensure that real improvements are achieved and are sustainable.

Kaizen Consulting Services

Overview

Kaizen is a rapid improvement technique for implementing solutions quickly when the problem is well-defined and solutions are known. 

The framework applies a simple planned focus- to fix the problem with obvious quick solutions that are easy to implement and have minimal risk. 

Kaizen is a structure of measurable, positive, and controllable change. 

There are five founding elements included in the Kaizen approach-

• Teamwork
• Improved morale
• Personal discipline
• Suggestions for improvement
• Quality circles

How can we help?

Our Kaizen consulting services can help you in increasing profits by eliminating waste while driving process improvements continuously on your journey to success.

We provide practical and result-oriented solutions using continuous improvement methodologies to help you optimize business processes and enhance business performance.

Our consulting services are tailored to your business specific needs and we offer solutions that are impactful, holistic, practical, and sustainable.

Process Redesign Consulting Services

Process Redesign should not only optimize the status quo but align with your organization’s strategy and change how work is done.

HKPS Consulting will help you redesign your business processes to enhance quality, speed, impact and cost. 

We offer a broad range of transformational capabilities and deploy innovative process discovery and mining technologies to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of your business processes.

Our approach is not limited to redesigning the process but also extends to the execution of all strategic activities that will enable you to achieve your organizational goals. 

Our areas of focus-

• Increase efficiency– we identify the gaps and sticking points that you may have missed.
• Reduce cost– We know that inefficiencies appear as soaring overheads and high costs, we believe in cutting down both.
• Drive operational performance– As soon as processes empower employees to give their best, operations will improve across the organization.

With process redesign consulting services you can expect better customer service, improved service quality, low cost and impact, and happier employees.

Continuous Improvement

At HKPS Consulting we focus on continuous improvement across industries. 

The continuous improvement process is an incremental process that focuses on optimizing a business, change management, and delivering strategic results.

Choosing the right design requires an understanding of the key objectives, the business lifecycle, maturity of the organization, developing a plan, and picking the right tools and methods.

We offer broad and deep expertise across major industries. We provide solutions and advice based on statistical data and proven practices with measurable results. We have expert consultants who bring both their unique perspectives and deep institutional knowledge to each client.