An Assessment gives your company valuable insights on your operations, workflows, and management systems. The feedback enables your company to invest time and money into improvement priorities with confidence and sound reasoning.
Through a confidential assessment process, Kata works with your team to expose and identify skill gaps, mindset drags, and hidden issues that are holding you back from your goals. As well, Kata provides insights on best practices and emerging practices to help advance your operational practices.
Kata has worked within the AEC Industry for many, many years as both a contributor in the work, manager of the work, and improver of the work. Our long-standing industry experience provides insight into the history and evolution of the firms in AEC and an inside perspective regarding the factors that have led us to some of the peculiar practices, mindsets, and processes that are holding back our industry from higher levels of productivity.
As an operations & improvement specialist, Kata is uniquely qualified and capable of providing valueable feedback that represents the unique nature of your company. We are intimately familiar with the AEC Industry practices and able to sift through the "general practices" in the industry and see your company's unique practices. Our experience in the industry also provides us with the ability to provide feedback that is relevant and specific to your company.
Assessments can feel quite invasive to the team members in your company. Kata uses our industry experience to relate with your team, quickly develop trust, and cultivate authentic responses so that your business can maximize the value of the assessment. By asking the right questions and being genuinely curious, we can uncover pain points and slowdowns together. These may be related to uneven workloads, policy issues, variation, ignored standards, local optimizations, system metrics that are not aligned with the strategic goals, lack of feed-back loops, and other flow impediments or barriers that slow down the firm's output and profitability potential.
Not only does Kata provide an assessment snapshot of your current state, but Kata is committed to providing your company with reasonable "take-action" recommendations that maximize impact on business outcomes. We tailor our assessment feedback and recommendations to the managers, supervisors, and leaders who can make the changes necessary to improve the situation.
A typical engagement model could look like this for your company:
Phase 1:
- Introductory call with key leaders. Exploring your work system and current challenges/goals.
- Review of key documents, organization charts, charters, and other relevant resources
- Interviews with Leaders and Team members to gather more insights.
- Observations of meetings, workflows, management systems, tools, etc.
- Follow-up meetings with any key leaders
Phase 2:
- Report developed with observations and suggestions
- Presentation of report and findings - discussion with Leaders
Before investing valuable resources into your next improvement initiative. Bring Kata Consulting in for a "look around" and get an inventory of improvement options with a deeper understanding of impact using operations science and industry best practices as the basis.
