Consulting services
Action needed by your organization may be triggered by
- growth, expansion, M&A
- marketplace and strategy changes
- pressures to reduce costs
- corporate and department priorities
- performance indicators
- leadership or employee frustrations
- risks to manage
- need for a new or revised service, product
- customer service and satisfaction concerns
- brand, loyalty challenges
- stakeholder and partner needs
- process and cross functional issues
- technology issues
- project challenges
Business Consulting Services
To reach tomorrow sooner and minimize prolonged disruptions among your valuable talent, HOP Collaborative Associates LLC business consulting services can help you at any stage from harvesting ideas to achieving progress.
Harvest Ideas
Timely and effective harvesting of ideas are important to making progress happen sooner. Using our techniques, we can help you with harvesting ideas for
- Employee Engagement
- Company Values Alignment
- Process, Cross Functional Performance Improvement
- Department Improvement
- Company-wide Programs such as Cost Reduction
- Company-wide Processes such as Project Portfolio Management
- Alignment
Areas: Operations | Customer Service | Sales Operations | Marketing Operations | IT | Corporate Functions & Company-wide Processes | Cross Functional Performance (e.g. product development lifecycle) | Department Performance
Operationalize Ideas
After harvesting your ideas, HOP Collaborative Associates can help you operationalize your changes by developing your transformation roadmap with you and helping oversee the transformation if needed for
- Ideas Ready for Transformation
- Cost Reduction Programs
- M&A Transition
- Strategy
Among other considerations,
- Transformation roadmaps should consider the organization's culture, change management and possibilities for incremental change to help progress happen sooner.
- Transformation oversight should be supported by leadership, stakeholders and led by someone who supports the change and has effective transformation experience.
Whether the transformation includes technology or not, effectively managing issues and actively managing risks are important to helping manage the timeliness and cost of operationalizing.
Progress from Ideas
Once you have gone live with your changes, it is important to monitor the implemented change to see how the change is performing. HOP Collaborative Associates can help by conducting a
- Post Go-live Assessment
How ideas are harvested and how the transformation roadmap is developed and implemented can make a difference in achieving success with the change.
Even with improving your chance of a successful change, the change can still fail if not monitored after go-live. Conducting a post go-live assessment will enable evaluation of whether objectives are met and adoption has occurred. The assessment can also demonstrate leadership support for the change.
Workshops
HOP Collaborative Associates offers workshops for
- Harvesting Process, Cross Functional Improvement Ideas
- Harvesting Ideas to Achieve the Company Culture's Values
- Harvesting Employee Engagement Improvement Ideas
- Harvesting Leadership Traits Ideas, Building Consensus
- Harvesting Ideas for M&A Future State Transition
- Prioritizing
- Roadmap Planning
- Alignment - Goals, Objectives, Process, or Strategy
- Company-wide Initiatives
With leadership buy-in and depending on effective participation, workshops can help build consensus and can improve momentum in taking the next steps.
Need any help on a specific issue?
How is your company's alignment effectiveness to company values?
HOP Collaborative Associates has a book, available for purchase, that's designed to help trigger thinking about some of the things that can affect achieving alignment to company values along with its potential impacts.