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On an airplane, you find yourself sitting next to an executive whose goodwill is important to you either as a client or as a senior leader of your company. The executive asks, "You said that you are performance improvement consultant. What exactly does one do?" You have less than 3 minutes to explain the HPT/HPI processes you use to get results and tie everything back to that executive's business.

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Because of your great efficiency and expertise in performance improvement, you have been reassigned to a project that is behind schedule due to the loss of several key staff members. Before taking any action, what information are you going to ferret out about the project and how will you use it to get the project back on track?

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Due to a down-turn in the economy, your company has been experiencing financial losses in revenue. You have been asked to put together a team that will find 3-5 low-cost or no-cost ways to resource costs by 25% for your company's main product line. You are being given less 6 weeks to identify and test these cost-cutting measures. If they work in a pilot, you and your team guide the organization through the changes, if not your team will be "redeployed". With no margin for error, you feel that it is imperative that evaluation be "right" from the beginning. Identify the evaluations and key decisions that need to be made in each of the next six weeks. (Reminder: this isn't about designing the solutions but the plan to get to solutions.)

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What is the relationship between a cause analysis and a requirements definition (often a document)? How does one impact the other? How does information flow between the two? Also explain what a "cause analysis" is including what information is needed before starting the cause analysis, what information would be gathered during the analysis and what decisions would be made based on that analysis. Then, explain what requirements are and how they will be used.

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Explain what a "gap analysis" is including how gaps are defined and measured. Be sure to address how gap analysis relates to needs, requirements, design, project scoping, evaluation and evaluation planning.

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On an airplane, you find yourself sitting next to an executive whose goodwill is important to you either as a client or as a senior leader of your company. The executive asks, "You said that you are performance improvement consultant. What exactly does one do?" You have less than 3 minutes (3 short paragraphs) to explain the HPT/HPI processes you use to get results and tie everything back to that executive's business.

There are several human performance improvement processes that I apply to improve the performance of the organization for which we work. At first, I diagnose the areas of performance improvement. This reveals areas where improvement can be brought about. Once the areas that require interventions are diagnosed, objectives are set to realize the full potential of the organization.

If these areas are assessed then the year end results can be improved through quick payback opportunities. I design changes in the company's cost structure. The purpose is to reduce costs. Further, I make interventions in the firm's capital allocation process. Most important, the excess complexity is identified and removed so that high cash visibility and rational capital allocation process is put in place.

With the objective of improving the performance of the firm, I redesign the business process by using lean manufacturing, and six-sigma. Redesigning the key business processes and acquiring the right capabilities from the right source, and from the right price. Essentially, I use tools from different disciplines like organizational development, behavioral psychology, total quality management, and process improvement to improve the performance of the organization.

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Because of your great efficiency and expertise in performance improvement, you have been reassigned to a project that is behind schedule due to the loss of several key staff members. Before taking any action, what information are you going to ferret out about the project and how will you use it to get the project back on track?

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