No matter what size or at what stage your organisation is, no matter what
kind of decision, problem, or opportunity you face, there's probably a way for Pro Bono Operational Research (O.R.) to help.
O.R. consistently
delivers significant value – strategic to tactical, top-line to bottom-line –
to the organisations and executives who use it. Benefits from O.R. include:
- Business insight: Providing quantitative and business
insight into complex problems.
- Business performance: Improving business performance by
embedding model-driven intelligence into an organisation’s information
systems to improve decision making.
- Cost reduction: Finding new opportunities to decrease cost
or investment.
- Decision making: Assessing the likely outcomes of
decision alternatives and uncovering better alternatives.
- Forecasting: Providing a better basis for more accurate
forecasting and planning.
- Improved scheduling: Efficiently scheduling staff,
equipment, events, and more.
- Planning: Applying quantitative techniques to support
operations, tactical planning, and strategic planning.
- Pricing: Dynamically pricing products and services.
- Productivity: Helping organisations find ways to make
processes and people more productive.
- Profits: Increasing revenue or return on investment;
increasing market share.
- Quality: Improving quality as well as quantifying and
balancing qualitative considerations.
- Recovery: Gaining greater control and achieving turn-around.
- Resources: Gaining greater utilisation from limited
equipment, facilities, money, and personnel.
- Risk: Measuring risk quantitatively and uncovering
factors critical to managing and reducing risk.
- Throughput: Increasing speed or throughput and
decreasing delays.
Here
is what a few of the organisations who’ve received Pro Bono support had to say:
Crimestoppers:
‘We’ve benefited hugely from your work and support in all areas of the project,
and from an organisational perspective you’ve enabled us to take a highly
professional approach to increasing the efficiency of our charity.’
(Performance Manager)
Participle: ‘I have
just started to digest the work you did for us and wanted to say a huge thank
you. This will be so critical to our growth and I am very grateful indeed
for your time and expertise. The team have described you as "a joy
to work with”.’ (Principle Partner)
The Cardinal Hume Centre “We valued the opportunity to
work collaboratively and without doubt benefited from the analyst’s expertise
and commitment to the project.” (Operations Director)
We currently have three projects
underway with the RSPCA, Work for Us and
Harrogate & Ripon Centres for Voluntary Service and a further project
about to commence. We have 60 volunteers across the UK who are currently
available to work on projects. This puts us in a great position to offer
Pro Bono O.R. the third sector organisations across the UK.
For more information please
see my webpage, blog, twitter or LinkedIn page.
@FMcLeister
Felicity McLeister
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