| Performance
Excellence
Guiding senior-most executives toward
a moving target of best-in-class performance through comprehensive
measurement and analysis, accurate benchmarking, and best-practices-driven
advice and planning support toward achieving improvement goals
and strategic objectives.
The best performing
and most admired companies continuously innovate and improve,
regardless of their historical success. They search
for new insights and proven practices to apply within their
own organization to generate improvement. This is the
basis for Fortegis Performance Excellence, which consists
of a suite of programs to help executives of small to midsized
companies achieve and sustain financial, operational and competitive
excellence. Each program caters to separate organizational
responsibilities and is designed to help functional executives
achieve strategic objectives and maximize their internal organization’s
value contribution to the enterprise.
Current Performance
Excellence Programs:
Enterprise
Growth
Finance &
Accounting
Operations, Service & Quality
Purchasing & Supply
Human Resources
Information Technology
Each of the above
fixed-price, all-inclusive programs includes four incremental
components to provide the dramatic results and compelling
ROI:
Performance
Analysis—An examination of current performance
and the organization’s capabilities using a comprehensive
set of measures
The first step
to improvement is an objective assessment. Using a
proprietary integrated framework to comprehensively measure
organizations, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and
applying an economics-based evaluation approach, we are
able to identify the key drivers and components of performance,
isolate specific strengths and issues, discover hidden sources
of value, and accurately determine how well the organization
is achieving its performance targets and contributing to
the enterprise’s long-term success.
Best
Practices Analysis —A comparative “apples-to-apples”
analysis to identify performance gaps and opportunities relative
to peers and best-in-class companies
The best way to
be the best is to learn what the best are doing differently.
Through our work with and research of leading companies
across industries, we are able to gain unbiased, empirically-derived
facts and insights into the most successful (and not so
successful) strategies, tactics and solutions that have
been used. We focus not just on understanding what
decisions a best-in-class company made, but also how, and
then correlating this information with actual results to
derive transferable insight regarding best practices and
performance metrics.
Excellence
Planning—A facilitated session with the management
team to translate performance findings and insights into achievable
strategies and plans
Only effective
execution of strong strategies generates impressive results.
Fortegis wants our clients to excel. We therefore
recommend realistic near-term targets and the strategies
to achieve them, and then assist clients in developing a
prioritized roadmap and approach for improvement initiatives.
We do this in an interactive executive planning session
to make the best possible business decisions, gain consensus
within the leadership team and lead to rapid execution.
Continuous
Progress—A one-on-one meeting with senior executives
on a quarterly basis to assess improvement initiatives and
refine strategies and plans to improve results
The pursuit of
excellence is an ongoing pursuit of a moving target.
Fortegis has a vested interest in ensuring our clients achieve
their performance goals. Each Performance Excellence
program therefore includes ongoing support and executive
advisory services to help optimize realization of tangible
results.
Key Benefits—to
functional departments and the enterprise:
- Greater understanding of the drivers, factors and root
causes that most impact your organization’s current performance
and will impede future success
- Reduced general and administrative (G&A) spend and
cost structure
- Increased organizational effectiveness, with improved
productivity and asset utilization
- Enhanced governance, compliance and stakeholder confidence
- Advanced integrated performance management with high impact
metrics and tracking approach
- Quantified business case justification and prioritization
for major organizational initiatives
- Optimized realization of tangible benefits and accelerated
achievement of specific performance targets
- Strengthened achievable strategy balanced across functional
departments and aligned with the enterprise’s mission and
strategic objectives
All Performance Excellence programs come
with a money-back satisfaction guarantee.
“You may be very healthy
and know yourself very well, but you still need to go to
your primary care physician for your annual check-up to
give you an objective, thorough evaluation of your overall
health and provide recommendations on what you can do differently
to improve. Fortegis provides the same service and
care for an organization’s “health.”
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here for more information on Fortegis Performance Excellence.
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