The purpose of an improvement strategy overview is to provide an organization with a summary of the current state of the human resource, benefits and payroll practices, processes and technology as well as recommendations for improvements.

AstraAdvantage’s high-impact approach of redesigning business processes can help to increase your company’s ability to reach strategic goals as well as:

• Lower your operating costs
• Grow without adding resources
• Improve the quality of your product or service offering
• Add value to your customers
• Engage your employees in your effort to be more profitable

AstraAdvantage consultants will work with your team to identify the critical processes requiring your attention, analyze the current state processes and then will create “future state” process flows and recommend best practices to help your company integrate business process improvement into its culture. 

In today’s competitive environment, change is a way of life. Organizations that are able to adapt to change are more likely to be successful. Business Process Improvement can increase your company’s ability to reach strategic goals, whether you are implementing an HRIS, dealing with compliance issues, or responding to pressures from competitors or industry changes. BPI can help you lower your operating costs, grow without adding resources, improve the quality of your product or service, add value to your customers, and engage your employees in your effort to be more profitable. When your organization integrates BPI into its culture, everyone benefits.

System Implementation
The decision to redesign business processes in conjunction with a system implementation is an important step in leveraging the new system’s functionality and preparing end users to transition to the new system.

Overall, the benefits of BPI include:

• Improved operating efficiencies
• Scalability
• Standardization with the ability to maintain flexibility
• Effective use of people and technology

AstraAdvantage’s High-Impact Approach:
The prospect of redesigning business processes can be a daunting task, particularly during a system implementation when your organization’s resources are often limited. Our approach is to work with your team to identify the critical processes requiring your attention; those processes that have the highest impact on your organization’s success. This list might include processes that simply are “broken”. It will include those processes most affected by the functionality of the new technology.

Strategic Planning
Strategic planning requires you to clearly define your organization’s direction. Business process improvement (BPI) can help you evaluate your organization’s current state and plan a strategy for achieving your goals.

If your company uses strategic planning to set corporate goals and strategic priorities, BPI can help ensure that your processes are in line with your strategic plan.

Quality Improvement
Any quality improvement initiative should include business process improvement (BPI). In most cases, quality issues are systemic. It is often the process that is the problem, and since an organization’s processes are firmly embedded in the day-to-day work that people do, the problems are often chronic and difficult to diagnose. Changing individual behavior, trying harder, or addressing individual performance problems are an important facet of managing a business, but these efforts do not have any impact on the underlying systems of business processes. If you put a good employee into a bad process, the process will win. Therefore, to be successful, BPI should be an integral part of any quality improvement program. AstraAdvantage can help you identify, document and improve your processes, which will in turn improve the quality of your product or service. 

Customized Training and Documentation
A business process improvement (BPI) initiative results in a significant amount of change, whether it is a result of strategic planning, a quality improvement program, or a system implementation. The way employees do their jobs will change. Part of a successful strategy is to plan for the communication of that change.

AstraAdvantage can help you implement your initiative with customized training and documentation. When companies send their employees to generic “off the shelf” training, they are expected to transfer the generic content that they learned to their individual jobs. This transfer of learning is extremely difficult for most people. AstraAdvantage designs and delivers customized training and documentation that is focused on the end user and is designed around jobs and job tasks. The difference is in the approach. Off-the-shelf training is focused on the product. AstraAdvantage’s customized training is focused on your employees and their jobs.