Organizations are open, dynamic systems. They are more than a set of discrete processes to be optimized. Because improving management is only a part of overall organizational improvement, ROM assessments address related systems, both inside and outside of the organization.
Efficiency and effectiveness are different. Improving efficiency by reducing costs or time does not necessarily increase the ability to meet organizational goals. ROM aims at leverage points needed to assure quality, relevance, and productivity.
Program management is an inherent executive function. Consultants can advise, support, and coach, but they should not work in isolation and provide turnkey solutions. ROM will collaborate with you to assure that you are intimately involved in the development and ownership of options.
Current structures and strategies exist for a reason. Organizational strategy is as emergent as it is prescriptive. ROM works under your structure, builds from your recent management assessments, and starts from where you are. We do not provide canned answers based on assessment templates.
Risk mitigation is sometimes more important than optimization. Mission performance may mean developing structures to avoid mistakes as well as those needed to be efficient. ROM will help you decide where this is appropriate.
Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice. “Been there, done that” can only go so far in organizational assessment. No one, even you, has been where your organization is going over the next few years. We bring our diagnostic expertise and work with you to plan the best course.
Consultants should be bright, be brief, and then be gone (mostly). Management needs just-in-time advice, not a remora that hangs on forever. ROM will provide assessments and options that you can implement, and then help you develop internal skills so that you can sustain the growth and improvements we started together.
Professionalism and confidentiality are the highest order. Management advisors share responsibility for some of the most spectacular ethical failures in public and private sector management. A Certified Management Consultant, the highest accreditation in the management consulting profession, leads all ROM consulting teams. The CMC is awarded to recognize experience, professionalism, confidentiality, and adherence to ethical standards as reflected in the IMC USA Code of Ethics and rigorous enforcement procedures.
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