Operational Excellence

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Operational Excellence

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What is Operational Excellence

Operational Excellence is a set of approaches, practices, and tools that target maximizing efficiency in Operations without loosing focus on time, quality, cost, and employees. Many elements of it are common across various organizations (e.g. lean, digitization, etc.), some can be though unique and reflect company-specific culture.

Operational Excellence (OE) and The Burnie Group

We offer a comprehensive and transformative training program designed to enhance the knowledge and capabilities of team leaders. Our program aims to build four critical capabilities:

Operational Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Performance Management
Workforce Agility

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Operational Excellence matters across all industries

Here are some examples of back-office Operations and cross-functions / shared services where Operational Excellence delivers very significant results based on our experience driven both by type of activities (i.e. repeatable, supported by IT systems) and resource-consuming (i.e. relying on numerous human resources)

INDUSTRY	Operations / Back-Office
Operational Excellence in Banking	New customer setup Credit Processing and credit checks Account changes Product changes / Approvals (e.g. credit limits) Customer service (e.g. statements, confirmations)
Operational Excellence in Insurance	Mail handling Underwriting Policy administration (e.g. name and address changes) Claims Processing Checks and reviews Litigation Services
Operational Excellence in Institutional Accounting	Fund accounting Corporate Actions Tax reporting Account Management Custody and Investment Management Services Custody Operations Fund Services
Pension Benefits	New business setup Pensions benefits administration Processing of adjustments Data entry and transfer Pension benefits reporting Reconciliations and Cash Movements
Long-Term Care & Healthcare	Front-line care staff management: Registered Nurses (RNs), Personal Support Workers (PSWs) Regulatory reporting Quality management and audits

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Improve employee engagement and productivity

Our Operations Excellence program is a structured 10-week certification focused on enhancing employee performance. You will improve employee engagement and operating performance through standardized management practices and training.

Enhance Employee Engagement

Empower individuals to make better decisions and focus on your customers.

Improve Productivity

Elevate employee performance and improve quality to better meet the needs of your customers.

Create Better Leaders

Upgrade management practices and enhance performance insights.

Comprehensive Operational Excellence Approach

The Operations Excellence Program challenges managers to work closely with their teams, helping them improve relevant production skills and develop a better understanding of workload and available resources.

Sustained improvement of key performance indicators is achieved through the use of weekly planning and staff development. Operational Excellence often leads to:

– improved customer service
– reduced costs
– increased productivity
– better utilization of resources
– enhanced capacity alignment

Most importantly though, our Program leads to stronger communication and shared objectives across the firm, from upper management to front line staff.

The Burnie Group offers a number of Operational Excellence programs

The Burnie Group offers various programs tailored to your organization’s needs and budget. Please see the below examples of standard programs we offer and the components of each of those programs.

	Full 10 Week Program	6 Week Program	3 Week Program (OE Express)
Process Mapping
Data Capturing
Analytics & Insights
Visual Board & Staff Management
Coaching
Capacity Planning
Long Range Forecasting

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Three key components of Operations Excellence projects

1. A Robust Technology Platform	2. A Best-in-class Workforce Management Program	3. Superior Process Execution
A robust tool for capturing Work force Management data and its analysis Integrated reporting functions Intelligent capacity forecasting and planning	Data-driven workforce management approach Collaborative planning and forecasting Clear perspective on demand and supply Real time updates Learn more about our Workforce Management program	Enterprise process maps with clear outcomes for each process Standardized processes Lean processes Clear process nomenclature

1. A Robust Technology Platform

2. A Best-in-class Workforce Management Program

3. Superior Process Execution

A robust tool for capturing Work force Management data and its analysis
Integrated reporting functions
Intelligent capacity forecasting and planning

Data-driven workforce management approach
Collaborative planning and forecasting
Clear perspective on demand and supply
Real time updates

Learn more about our Workforce Management program

Enterprise process maps with clear outcomes for each process
Standardized processes
Lean processes
Clear process nomenclature

Operational Excellence Examples – Case Studies

Asset Management	Commercial Real Estate	Insurance
Background: A top 5 bank was expanding their offerings and expecting an increase in demand. The Burnie Group’s OE practice helped the bank create more capacity without expanding their workforce while providing in depth documentation of the client’s processes.	Background: A fortune 500 financial institution engaged The Burnie Group’s OE practice to create a more productive and managed workforce.	Background: A large insurance company lacked workflow transparency across all lines of business and limited measures of documentation and reporting.
Impact: Implemented a culture of training and development among staff Catalogued over 1000 production activities for reporting and process improvement purposes Improved planning and capacity practices	Impact: Reduced employee overtime costs by 36% within 3 months Increased sustainable long-term productivity growth of 16% Increased FTE capacity by 11% through an increase in productivity	Impact: Implemented a workforce management program over 10 weeks Enabled high-level transparency across organizational structure improved staff engagement and morale by implementing best practice techniques

Asset Management

Commercial Real Estate

Insurance

Background:

A top 5 bank was expanding their offerings and expecting an increase in demand. The Burnie Group’s OE practice helped the bank create more capacity without expanding their workforce while providing in depth documentation of the client’s processes.

Background:

A fortune 500 financial institution engaged The Burnie Group’s OE practice to create a more productive and managed workforce.

Background:

A large insurance company lacked workflow transparency across all lines of business and limited measures of documentation and reporting.

Impact:

Implemented a culture of training and development among staff
Catalogued over 1000 production activities for reporting and process improvement purposes
Improved planning and capacity practices

Impact:

Reduced employee overtime costs by 36% within 3 months
Increased sustainable long-term productivity growth of 16%
Increased FTE capacity by 11% through an increase in productivity

Impact:

Implemented a workforce management program over 10 weeks
Enabled high-level transparency across organizational structure
improved staff engagement and morale by implementing best practice techniques

25+ years of expertise in employee performance improvement

Operations Excellence practice leaders have a combined 25+ years experience in employee performance improvement. Our clients include top 5 Canadian banks, leading insurance companies and pension funds.

Transform your business

We guarantee a dramatic advancement in employee effectiveness and efficiency. Our clients typically realize operational savings of 20% or more. Our Operations Excellence program will transform your business.

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