Common Operating Problems

Barracliffe Consulting can also help your organization solve common operating problems. Some typical problems that we help our clients with are listed below. Click on a problem to see which of our services may apply. As you know, a "presenting problem" is often not the root problem and may simply be a symptom of something else. Real business and operating problems are normally a mixture of contributing factors. To address this, we will work with you to conduct a rigorous problem analysis and use our Anatomy of an Enterprise^SM framework to put the underlying problem in the proper context to help you solve it.


Vision and Strategy
•	We need to make a major organizational change or transformation
•	We can't agree on a common vision
•	We need a clear strategy that we can execute
•	We need to generate better ideas for doing "X"

Business Process Management
•	Our customers/clients/ stakeholders are dissatisfied with our ability to do "X"
•	We have a problem with our "X" Process
•	We don't have a consistent process for "X"
•	It takes too long to do "X"
•	It costs us too much to do "X"
•	We are spending too much on "X"
•	We need to do more with less
•	We are getting bogged down in red tape!
•	We don't have policies and procedures for "X"


People and Organizational Change Management
•	Our organization silos are affecting our performance
•	We have a major change initiative that is bogged down in organizational politics and resistance
•	We need to get our people on board for the "X" initiative

Planning and Execution
•	We need to improve our ability to execute our ideas
•	We meet and plan a lot but we don't get things done
•	We have a major initiative that we have to plan and implement

Information Technology Management
•	Our "X" System Implementation is not going well
•	The "X" System is a major problem for our operations
•	We need to select a new "X" System
•	We're not getting enough value for what we spend on IT