Whitepapers and Research

Organisational Efficiency

Clientcase - Insurance Global Change

Managing Global Change in the Insurance Industry: To deal with hardening market conditions, one of the world’s largest and most established insurance firms sought to set a new agenda for their operations division in order to differentiate what is generally regarded as a commoditised product. iProCon consultants helped the organisation to identify the areas of focus to shape a Target Operating Model (TOM) that would enable them to drive ahead of the competition in terms of both efficiency and
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Clientcase - Post Merger Integration Property Services

Merger Planning and Integration in the Property Services industry: A respected property services business is born from the merger of two former businesses, together with a revised growth strategy that allows it to make the most of growing commercial and public sector opportunities. iProCon helped them eliminate financial and operational waste and create more efficient and agile operational structures and processes, whilst improving the transparency and effectiveness of performance and reward.
      Clientcase - Post Merger Integration Property Services   (1800KB)

MiniCase - Managing HCM in a Downturn

Managing your Human Capital in an Economic Downturn
      MiniCase - Managing HCM in a Downturn   (145KB)

WhitePaper - Define and Deliver the Vision

Many senior management teams have a clear idea of what they want their organisation or project to achieve, but have difficulty in distilling the often complex plans into a clear message for all staff. In tandem with this challenge is the need to overcome organisational inertia to bring about change and deliver your desired vision. This paper focuses on two simple tools that can be used to address the above challenges.
      WhitePaper - Define and Deliver the Vision   (79KB)

Whitepaper - Measuring and Sustaining Cost Cutting Initiatives

Measuring and Sustaining Cost Cutting Initiatives: This paper focuses on understanding and measuring the impact of cost saving programmes, as well as techniques to embed changes into the organisation’s DNA so that the intent of the programme continues to deliver positive results long after the initial programme has been completed.
      Whitepaper - Measuring and Sustaining Cost Cutting Initiatives   (128KB)

Whitepaper - Organisational design and the rule of "150"

What Managers can learn from Monkeys and the Hutterites: Long before lean management became paramount in management literature, various human communities throughout history as well as the high tech company Gore learnt that there is one alternative to complex structures, laws, rules and incentive mechanisms: getting the group size right.
      Whitepaper - Organisational design and the rule of "150"   (231KB)

Whitepaper - Streamlining and Strategic Agility

Streamlining Organisations Whilst Retaining Competitive Advantage: Arbitrary cost cuts are at best a short-term solution in difficult times, as they do not address the causes of cost expansion, so that costs have a habit of growing back. A better way of cutting costs lies through Strategic Agility. We outline the concept of Strategic Agility, and show how to make the transition from structural rigidity to agility.
      Whitepaper - Streamlining and Strategic Agility   (208KB)