Typically these assignments are chartered to assist management in gaining information on a current operation or department in an effort to improve overall effectiveness. Representative assignments have included:
- Increasing revenues and/or reducing expenses
- Adding new capabilities to thwart competitive threats
- Improving employee productivity
- Exploiting market opportunities
- Improving customer service
- Identifying gaps in controls
- Organizational restructuring
- Selling under utilized assets
- Improving quality of products or services
- Assuring fiduciary responsibilities
- As a preliminary step in system design and development
- Streamlining workflow
- In Support of Total Quality management
- Create operational systems to maximize the efficiency of existing employees throughout the organization
- Adopting new technology
- design and implementation of a totally new sales organization, incentive and compensation plan
- Work flow diagrams
- Review/Development of Policies and Procedures
- Development or Analysis of Productivity measures
- Benchmarking against other industries
- Implementable Recommendations