Our operational management capabilities helps clients rapidly analyze operational opportunities to enhance operational efficiencies and cost savings in education related ventures. We innovate by providing clients with an external perspective on ways to reshape their organization, reduce significant costs and improve the quality of their revenues through strategic planning, implementation and assessment

Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing and controlling threats to an organization’s assets and earnings. These threats, or risks, could stem from a wide variety of sources, including financial uncertainty, legal liabilities, strategic management errors, accidents and natural disasters.

Risk management allows organizations to attempt to prepare for the unexpected by minimizing risks and extra costs before they happen.

Benefits of risk management include:

• Creating a safe and secure work environment for all staff and customers.

• Increases the stability of business operations while also decreasing legal liability.

• Provides protection from events that are detrimental to both the organization and the environment.

• Protects all involved people and assets from potential harm.

• Helps establish the organization’s insurance needs in order to save on unnecessary premiums.

Cohesion consultants collaborate with institutions to create and implement plans for identifying and controlling these threats

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is an extension of traditional risk management. ERM involves managing all of the risks affecting an organization’s ability to meet its goals, regardless of the types of risks being considered. A carefully reviewed and benchmarked ERM approach allows organizations the ability to stay focused on key areas of prosperity and continued sustainable operation. Because the effort is enterprise-wide, it supersedes any departmental or functional autonomy to encourage continuous review and support of the organizations most value-based objectives.

Enterprise Risk Management emphasizes results-based performance measurement throughout the organization. The specific benefits of ERM include:

• Maximizing the possible opportunities for growth

• Minimizing the expected organizational losses and therefore increasing the expected income and institution value

• Reducing the residual uncertainty in all areas of the enterprise.

Cohesion consultants collaborate with institutions to create and implement results-based performance measurements for enterprise-wide risk management.

Business process re-engineering (BPR) involves the examination and redesign of business processes and workflows in your organization. A business process is a set of related work activities that are performed by employees to achieve business goals.

While every business has unique processes, they all start with a common goal – to deliver high-quality, repeatable results as efficiently as possible. However, as policies change, resources turn over, technology is enhanced, and services are added, existing processes become less viable over time. Achieving and maintaining excellent performance requires an approach that supports continuous process improvement and optimization.

Cohesion consultants work collaboratively with institutions to quickly identify the excess steps, unnecessary approvals, exceptions, and workarounds that prevent progress. Then, Cohesion consultants work cooperatively to re-engineer core business processes so that teams can do their jobs faster, smarter and more easily, resulting in better institution performance overall.