Large, global companies — particularly ones that have grown through mergers, consolidation, and rapid expansion into new geographies — have significant opportunities to improve profitability by streamlining and focusing their organizations. Our work in this area has uncovered duplicative functions; sub-scale operations; activities unnecessarily located in high-cost areas; and misshapen, bloated, and expensive staffing configurations. All of these diminish profits.
However, addressing these issues in a complex, multinational organization with many thousands of employees is a daunting task. Not only must companies overcome many legal and logistical hurdles in gathering and conforming data, but they must also ultimately make sense of an avalanche of information.
Opera Solutions' Accelerated Technology and Reengineering Practice has helped clients attain major savings by streamlining operations, optimizing span of control, and reducing headcount-related expense — all with extraordinary rapidity and precision. We complete full assessments and diagnostics of complex, global organizations in 4-6 weeks, and capture major savings within 4-6 months.
For more information on Opera’s Technology and Reengineering Practice, or to contact Shervin Khodabandeh, Managing Director, click here.
What makes us different:
Breaking through roadblocks in data capture. In many countries, particularly in the EU, transporting individual compensation and work records data across borders is not permitted. We have developed approaches that allow us to clean and anonymize data in-country so that we can transport it for centralized analysis. We have also developed new, automated approaches to conforming job titles and activities, and structuring massive amounts of HR-related data. What used to take companies many months now takes Opera a matter of weeks.
Faster, deeper insights. At the heart of our approach is Opera Solutions' HR Insight Cube technology — which yields unprecedented levels of transparency and MRI-like clarity. The Cube brings together immense amounts of data — costs, levels, locations, activities, salaries, tenure, reporting relationships, and more — by functions, business units, and geography. It supports almost instantaneous answers to "what is going on?" questions, and yields a multi-layered, 360° assessment of an organization’s "streamlining" potential, including:
Diagnostic
Impact
De-Layering Opportunities
Shows how "out of shape" an organization is and determines where the client could reduce the number or size of layers
Span of Control Issues
Calculates spans of control and identifies where spans are too low (inefficient and high-cost), or too high (under-managed businesses)
Salary Inefficiencies
Identifies inconsistencies in pay, pinpointing opportunities to reduce compensation or re-engineer processes
De-Fragmentation Opportunities
Identifies duplicative and sub-scale operations, and finds opportunities for centralization and shared services
Location Leverage
Assesses and sizes opportunities to relocate overhead to less expensive locations, whether onshore, near-shore, or offshore
End-to-end expertise. Our professionals are change management experts with years of experience in helping organizations rapidly implement programs and capture hard savings. They provide the change management strategies, real-world perspectives, analytic support, progress-tracking tools, and goal-oriented energy that help organizations move forward quickly with minimal "noise."
Click on the links below for some of our recent technology and reengineering successes.
