What skills or resource do you need?

Sometimes some advice over the phone is all that you may require. Or your requirement may be less well defined or an extensive project requiring a full project plan.

delta analysis Consultancy will tailor solutions offerings to meet you requirements.

Scoping, Planning and Project Management

This can involve three types of work depending if you already know where you want to get to and what skills you have in house.

1. Helping identify what change needs to take place
2. Project scoping (project boundaries) and planning
3. Project managing

You may feel "I know something needs to change but not sure what". detla analysis Consultancy will work with management to access objectives and resources to define the boundaries of a project.

Projects often fail due to the following:

• lack of planning and project management
• lack of buy in from management expected to deliver the project
• lack of the right skills or knowledge resources
• unrealistic time frames
• over promising and under delivery
• communication on the above and their impact on the critical path

delta analysis Consultancy can act as a skilled resource as an independent project manager to provide management with an accurate picture of the project timeline and progress against it.

Process Review

"This is what we do and how we do it, can we do it any better". delta Analysis Consultancy can undertake a review of what is being done, how it is being done, the skills required to do the activities verses the skills of the staff involved and identify areas for change.

Data Mining

You have data in multiple places, in different formats and you want to merge the data and keep the merged results up to date going forward.

delta analysis Consultancy can analysis and map what data is where and advise on methods for combining. We can also advise what interpretation or summarisation would be possible.

Performance Statistic

Deriving success factors, motivational factors or normal operating boundaries required for your organisations success. Then changing processes or systems to provide the statistics. This may also involve training management on interpreting and using the statistics as management tools.

Interpretation

Operations or Process can produce a lot of data. delta analysis Consultancy can provide design and build resources to turn data into information.

Firstly summarising the data into appropriate groups eg days, weeks, products, divisions.

Various analysis techniques can then be applied eg Trend analysis, volume/rate/mix variance analysis, forecast outcome.

Spreadsheet/Database Design/Development

delta analysis Consultancy can design and develop MS Excel spreadsheets and MS Access databases.

If you do not have the skills or the resource to develop the tools required by your operations teams let us do the design and or development for you.

Combining new spreadsheets or databases with process review can dramatically improve quality and control and reduce keying duplication.

Multi-user databases have been design and built to

• centralise timesheet input
• provide region, client, product margin reporting and revenue assurance
• track Issues and progress

Spreadsheet can be developed using visual basic macro's to automate repetitive tasks and provide functionality such as track controlled documents and provide auto email notification.

Training

Microsoft Office product training product training can be provided on a targeted basis. A syllabus can be focused specifically to the audience. It has often been found that staff need training aimed somewhere between the basic and intermediate level. Other teams need specific basic macro command training and others training on complex formula.