Management Consultancy

PJA offer a wide variety of highly professional Management Consultancy services. We have many years of top class management experience in a number of industries and in both small and large companies.

 

Requirements Planning

A technique for analyzing what you need or want, when you need it by and to what quality standards you require it delivered.
We'll sit with you, work with you and make sure the outcome is really what you need. This will involve several of the other threads in terms of strategic alignment, business aims, critical success factors and best value.
 

Specification Writing

This is a major element of our Engineering Consultancy activity and is the vehicle by which PJA facilitates the delivery of your requirements. Specifications are written in such a way that suppliers and contractors are left in no doubt as to you wishes, goals and aspirations.
 

Project Management

We have extensive experience in managing implementation projects.

Short-term Job Cover

PJA can draw from its pool of experienced consultants to cover your organizational gaps whilst giving you the chance to recruit the right person.
PJA can also cover jobs that are only required for a project duration or short term to cover an operational 'blip'.
Be it days, weeks or months, PJA will work with you to deliver the most cost effective and sensible solution.
 

Strategic Alignment

Making the technology strands support the business strategy. Testing that IT and IS consistently move the business in its chosen direction. Enhancing strategy with realistic business goals designed to deliver not only incremental progress but also step function change.
Asking the fundamental questions:
  • Does this organization structure enable or restrict our ability to deliver best value?
  • Are we both effective and efficient?
  • Do we structure our business to deliver best value customer service?
  • Are we delivering our projects on time and within budget?
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Organising for Projects

How to steer projects. PJA can help you come up with a sensible forum for steering your projects both programmes and portfolios.
  • Sensible documentation
  • Project control
  • Making sense of budgets
  • PRINCE2; is it for us?

Matching the Business' Needs

  • Helping the business get the best out of its investments and making sure the investments go towards driving the business forwards
  • Workshops and seminars to help teams understand how they fit into the business strategy
  • Project selection filters
  • Alignment tests against key parameters
  • Gap analysis
  • Driving the FORCE FIELD
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Adding Value

  • Asking the fundamental question; why are we doing this particular activity? Is it adding value to the service chain?
  • Measuring value add both in hard and soft terms; working with teams to come up with their own measures.
  • Eliminating waste.
  • Encouraging improvement.
 

Efficiency Vs. Effectiveness

  • Knowing the difference between efficiency (doing things well) and effectiveness (doing the right things)
  • How can organizations deliver improvements to both?
  • Problem solving
  • Process improvements, understanding capability and capacity
  • Constraints and bottle-necks; where are you limiting yourselves and how can you do it smarter?
  • Working smarter not harder; looking at what you do now and with your teams looking for ways of working differently not necessarily just working harder.
  • Key measures and their linkage to critical success factors.

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