Maturing your Capacity Management processes – Interviews/Workshops ( 4 of 11)

The real information and business integration starts here. 

The individual interviews are essential in obtaining the complex information about a particular department or business area; the reality being that most people are far more willing to talk openly about particular issues when meeting individually.

It also allows for a degree of knowledge transfer, in particular some business areas or departments who might not have any prior knowledge of capacity management and provides an overview of what the project objectives are e.g. what are we trying to achieve?

One of the prime advantages with this approach is the early involvement of all key areas of the business.

This is especially true with the workshop format. Bringing together groups of people that may not normally work that closely together forges more of a co-operative working party, where ideas can flow and people can properly challenge others in a constructive, facilitative way.

 These people may also become capacity management champions and form the beginnings of a capacity management community or capacity management special interest group.

So the GAP analysis/process audit has been completed and should have documented the current situation, the desired situation and a series of prioritized next steps for getting there.

Much as before, there are lots of things that will be required to implement or mature a business focused capacity process.  I’ll start to take a look at the “key next steps” and an approach that has been successfully used in a number of organizations on Wednesday.

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Rob Ford

Principal Consultant