Typical Harland Consulting: transparency generated by brilliant analysis & pragmatic implementation
Strategy
Regular review of strategic positioning is vital for all companies. Harland Consulting supports you in segmenting and evaluating market potential. On this basis, we work with your employees to develop a corporate strategy, providing guidance on relevant corporate functions and targeted investments.
Balancing economic and environmental considerations is one of the key challenges facing management. Harland Consulting supports you in identifying areas for action and defining measures that are economically viable.
As “profit centers,” most business units have strategic responsibilities in addition to operational ones. Harland Consulting helps you develop a BU strategy that fits in with your corporate strategy.
A clear picture of the market situation is the most important basis for strategic decision-making. Harland Consulting supports you in structuring your activities holistically and consistently. Together with your employees, market potential is also evaluated according to a uniform standard, making it comparable.
We examine the contribution to success and consistency of your business areas. Are they aligned with your corporate strategy? Which business opportunities support your business area strategy? Harland Consulting supports you by improving transparency and consistency.
We examine the contribution to success and consistency of your products in a business area. Do they fit in with your business area strategy? Which business opportunities support your business area strategy? Which gaps can still be filled? What risks are there? Harland Consulting supports you by improving transparency and consistency.
Most companies have long since replaced “make or buy” with “make, buy, or cooperate.” In most cases, highly standardized components (e.g., screws) can be purchased more cheaply than manufactured in-house. It makes just as much sense to manufacture components that relate to core competencies or are critical to competitiveness in-house. In the area in between, the cooperation area, services are purchased, detailed agreements are made, and joint developments are often carried out. Harland Consulting supports you in finding the right partner and shaping the nature of the cooperation.
Harland Consulting supports you in developing business cases for strategic investments. This usually includes an analysis of the earnings potential as well as an assessment of the cost structure (development, marketing and sales, production), taking into account the general conditions.
Digitalization is perhaps the most overused buzzword of our time. What does digitalization mean for your company? We work with you to develop a strategic roadmap. Will the future focus be on digital innovations (e.g., data-based services or digital enablers for customers), a digitalized marketing and sales process, or digitalized production and procurement processes?
Strategies only unfold their power if they are consistently implemented and supported by employees. Harland Consulting supports you in developing and implementing the change process by consistently involving employees.
Innovation
Business areas, just like products, are subject to a life cycle. No company can therefore afford to forego developing new business areas at certain intervals in addition to its existing business. Harland Consulting supports you in this complex process. The business case usually includes an analysis of market potential as well as an assessment of the cost structure (development, marketing and sales, production) and the identification and acquisition of cooperation partners.
When modules or components are standardized across multiple products, this is referred to as a product platform. Harland Consulting supports you in analyzing existing products and the target market segments in order to define new product platforms or optimize existing platform concepts. Product platforms have many positive effects (s. IJPD190501_Harland & Uddin.doc), but also some disadvantages that should not be overlooked. We would be happy to advise you!
Are you lacking ideas? Harland Consulting is happy to assist you in organizing and moderating creativity workshops. We draw on our many years of methodological expertise and organize a tailor-made offer for you, involving your employees, (optionally) external experts, or even (optionally) your customers’ employees.
Are your processes too slow? Are they too prone to errors? Harland Consulting would be happy to organize a workshop for you on process review. With the help of service blueprints, we will then review the entire process step by step together with your employees and identify potential for improvement as well as concrete ideas for solutions.
Harland Consulting supports you in modernizing your processes. We involve your employees in the improvement process. Processes are only useful if employees accept them. We also examine the processes for superfluous components that may have developed over time and lost their relevance. Is data being recorded in the right places? Have quality and risk measures been incorporated? We are happy to help. Get in touch with us!
Processes provide structure and professionalize working methods, but they can also be perceived as a burden. Harland Consulting supports you in designing your R&D and innovation processes. Potential improvements are identified and implemented in dialogue with users and stakeholders.
Project portfolio management aims to take a holistic view of all projects within a company or division in order to achieve strategic goals efficiently. Such a holistic view offers decisive advantages over isolated individual decisions. To enable comparability, uniform evaluation criteria must be defined. Regardless of whether you want to set up PPM in a decision-making space with Post-its, Excel, or specialized software, Harland Consulting supports you in implementation and evaluation.
We work with your employees to examine the cost structure of your products and set targets for target costing.
Project Management
Harland Consulting takes on the interim management of individual projects in your company.
A project program is a number of projects that are related to each other in terms of content.
Harland Consulting can take on this task on an interim basis in your company if desired.
Harland Consulting manages your project portfolio on an interim basis and helps you increase transparency through KPIs.
Harland Consulting can take on this task on an interim basis in your company upon request.
Project Management Office (PMO) ist ein Begriff mit einer gewissen Bandbreite. So verstehen einige darunter eine Art Sekretariat für Projektleiter. Das gängige Verständnis ist jedoch das einer Einheit mit exzellenter Fachexpertise, die Projektleiter fachlich und mit Erfahrungswissen unterstützt. Harland Consulting übernimmt interim diese Aufgabe in Ihrem Unternehmen.
The higher the opportunities, the higher the risks, as a rule. Risks that can be avoided with intelligent risk management: eliminating risks, avoiding risks, accepting risks, and hedging risks are just some of the most important measures. Here, too, transparency is crucial. Harland Consulting is happy to help. Get in touch with us!
We are happy to support you in optimizing your processes and tools, providing training, coaching, and challenging your project organization. In doing so, we take into account international standards, e.g., from the PMI.
Feedback from customers or top management requires urgent action. Harland Consulting supports you in setting up an interdisciplinary task force. Necessary measures are prioritized in a timely manner in workshops.
Cross-sectional methods
Harland Consulting supports you in evaluating your data. Evaluations support your decisions and processes.
Harland Consulting has extensive experience in conducting interviews with employees and other stakeholders. These interviews form the basis for situation analyses.
Harland Consulting egularly organizes and moderates workshops with employees and other stakeholders as part of projects. This improves the quality of the information obtained and increases acceptance among those involved.
If training needs are identified in projects, Harland Consulting offers training courses tailored specifically to your situation.