Typically, we work with clients in eight areas:
Business Performance Management System (BPMS)
The Business Performance Management System (BPMS™) is the set of meetings, reports and interventions organizations use to drive safe, reliable, predictable and sustainable performance through improved collaboration and problem solving. BPMS is at the heart of every effective business. Evolve works with clients to develop both enterprise and business unit level BPMS that includes Goals, Roles & Accountabilities; Value Drivers & KPIs; Dashboards & Visual Management; Meeting Cadence and Key Behaviors and Expectations.
Asset Reliability
How you care for and operate equipment is a significant driver of safety, throughput, reliability, cost and capital performance. Evolve has a long record of helping our clients deliver better asset performance using our proven approach, which helps clients build capability and culture for maintenance excellence and ongoing continuous improvement. Improving the uptime, integrity and productivity through the use of effective maintenance, reliability and work execution processes across the lifecycle of our assets. It is comprised of: Work prioritization and execution, production monitoring and optimization, organizational effectiveness, integrated sales and operations, value chain planning and management systems.
Continuous Improvement
Evolve supports companies in developing the culture, capability and supporting systems for ongoing continuous improvement. CI can unlock huge value, mitigate risk and create meaningful work, but companies are often frustrated with the effectiveness and sustainability of their CI efforts. Evolve helps companies to develop effective and sustainable CI programs that focus on visual management, structured problem-solving, strong leadership engagement, cross-functional collaboration, integration with standard work and deliberate practice.
Corporate Transformation
New growth and expansion phase? Decreasing margins or uncompetitive cost or pricing? Shift in the market conditions? Making a merger or major acquisition work? New ownership or executive leadership? What we find in common in successful transformation efforts is a commitment to an aspirational vision, clear performance targets, leadership and organizational engagement, fundamental changes to how work gets done and an explicit focus on creating new enabling culture as an outcome of working on the business, and how people work and interact. We help clients achieve corporate transformation by supporting the implementation of enterprise systems and processes, including Sales & Operations Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Capital Allocation, Manufacturing Excellence, Organizational Effectiveness, Corporate-level Management Systems.
Safety & Human Performance
Realizing extraordinary performance relies on an enterprise-wide commitment to ensuring no harm to people, assets or the environment. This requires a systematic focus on driving improvements to process and personal safety as well as managing, reducing and eliminating exposure to risk. Safety and human performance is about people and organizations. Data show that 80% of significant events attributed to human error, with 70% of those errors attributable to organizational weaknesses. We must also recognize that there are no perfect people or perfect processes so the entire organization must be engaged and aligned to building the safety culture. Evolve’s safety and human performance programs focus on areas such as: Systems & Processes (HSE, Enterprise), Reliable Operations, Capacity & Learning and Leadership Behaviors & Organizational Engagement.
Turnaround Excellence
Plant turnarounds are an opportunity to give large complex assets renewed life. They are also one of the biggest expenditures and operational risks for an organization when they occur. They don’t come around often, so getting them right – and making them better – is a strategic advantage. It comes down to precision planning and execution. Evolve’s approach to Turnaround Excellence is comprised of: Stakeholder engagement, critical path management & planning, envisioning the perfect turnaround, action implementation, and installing a turnaround management system and effective after-action reviews.
Capital Project Execution Excellence
Capital Projects Excellence (CPX™) focuses on optimizing prioritization, definition, management, and execution of major capital projects. Evolve’s CPX™ approach to capital projects maximizes risk/reward by aligning resources, reducing variation and cost, improving work planning and schedule attainment. Major capital projects are high risk and high reward but there is also a lot of value to be realized to improve the effectiveness of their annual capital spend. Evolve also works with clients to scale their major capital projects process to fit smaller projects to improve project selection and efficiency.
Digital Transformation
Digital transformation offers significant efficiency and safety benefits through automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and cloud-based computing. Realizing the performance potential of digitization requires a judicious business-driven approach supported by human-centered skills to bring organizations and people along. Evolve’s digital transformation services include: Digital Transformation Strategy, Business Operating Model Design, Agile Delivery, Adaptive Process Optimization, User Adoption and Change Management.
“Evolve’s support has been invaluable. I had worked with consultants before, and I guess had the view that consultants were useful so long as you kept them ‘in their box.’ Working with Evolve has changed my views.”