Assessments
“We had a record year in 2016, but I knew we could do better and decided Harbour Results could help us improve. I would tell any company to sign up and do the assessment right away.”
Each year, Harbour Results conducts more than 40 assessments across multiple industries, including tool and die, stamping, molding, die casting, and precision machining.
A three- or four-person team works collaboratively with your organization to conduct interviews, review processes and analyze existing data.
At the end, best practices, substantive ideas and actionable insights are provided. This is a low-cost way to evaluate your company and establish both internal and external benchmarks.
Harbour provides these assessments in three specific areas: Business | Workforce Readiness | Business Analytics
Virtual Assessments
Harbour Results is also pleased to offer virtual assessments to help companies better position themselves for the short- and long-term. These half-day online sessions walk through a business’ finances, strategy and operations to identify gaps and opportunities. Additionally, companies receive current market and economic intelligence as well as manufacturing benchmarking data and best practices.
Key Deliverable: Data, insights and information critical to build short-, medium- and long-term plans that will better position your company for the next six to 18 months.
Business Assessment
Harbour Results’ Business Assessment quickly and effectively diagnoses the health of your company and arms you with the information needed for process and performance improvement. This two- to three-day proprietary program takes an up-close look at the company’s entire operation to identify areas of strength and potential gaps.
The Business Assessment is an in-depth review of your entire business in nine different categories:
Engineering
Finance & Administration
Operations
Materials
Quality
Program Management
Management
Sales & Marketing
Human Resources
Key Deliverables
In-person discussion of your company’s results, including strengths and opportunities for improvement by category
Benchmarking report in the nine assessment categories
Customized recommendations on how to improve the business and drive profitability
Implementation plan and roadmap of priorities on the top opportunities for improvement
Workforce Readiness Assessment
Build the next generation talent and gain a competitive advantage
Preparing for the future workforce is critical in today’s competitive marketplace. By 2025, 75% of the workforce will be made up of Millennials, and Generation Z will be on the rise. Attracting and retaining this new talent is a key issue across the industry and it is critical for manufacturers to shift in order to address this growing concern and get the most out of your workforce.
HRI’s one-day readiness assessment is the first step in creating a road map for the changes required to effectively build the next generation workforce. It takes a close look at a company from the inside out to determine gaps that are impacting your ability to attract and retain employees and maximize productivity, and provide recommendations and tools for success.
The Workforce Readiness Assessment is conducted across five distinct categories:
Culture
Leadership
Strategy
Brand
Current Workforce
Three Key Assessment Zones
Employee survey & primary research
Onsite interviews of human resources, marketing and leadership staff
Review assessment results; benchmarking; recommendations
Harbour Results partners with the experts at Human Asset Management and WayPoint Marketing Communications to effectively implement the assessment.
Business Analytics Assessment
Collecting and understanding data from your business and about the industries you work in are critical to your future success. And, as technology continues to evolve – machine monitoring, business intelligence tools - it has become easier for companies to gain access to the information they need.
The Business Analytics Assessment will help your company understand its readiness for a data-driven culture and identify opportunities, gaps and tools that will enable you to make decisions based on data. During the two-day session, our consultants will review processes around current systems, interview your leadership, and investigate how operations are connected to the company’s analytics to provide recommendations as to how they can evolve.
Why so important?
No longer rely on your gut to determine how you company should proceed. Utilizing analytics can:
Help make faster and more informed decisions that are based on reality
Secure buy-in and get support based on facts
Ensure investments in people and technology are truly needed
Why do this?
Gain a competitive advantage
Identify gaps/challenges to make improvements
Better understand the data you are already collecting and make it work for you in a more strategic way
Determine whether the data you are collecting and using is the right type
Enables you to be ready for future innovation and technological developments