THE JETHRO PROJECT


Services

Our Approach

The Jethro Project (TJP) uses surveys to audit clients’ communication processes and to predict future outcomes. Research has shown that effective communication correlates positively with high overall organizational performance. Thus, communication activities serve to inform, regulate, persuade, and integrate stakeholders within organizations.

TJP uses econometric techniques (regressions and time-series analyses) for outcomes validations and forecasting. TJP also works with clients to address organizational design challenges, such as administrative capacity and the elimination of non-value processes. For instance, we map processes to identify and remove non-valued and redundant tasks.

TPJ is in a unique position to serve clients on a specialized basis.

Services

Strategic Planning

Strategy is a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. However, many organizations do not have a plan of action or policy designed to achieve organizational objectives. TJP helps clients close the gap between current and desired states. TJP gathers data to obtain a comprehensive overview of the client’s organization and focuses on the core problems and challenges to develop a model that captures the root causes of inefficiencies and provides the client with an alternative that optimizes performance. For instance, we look at gaps in mandated behaviors and actual practices, actual practices often reflect cultural norms as opposed to organizational procedures. We also evaluate administrative capacity and organizational learning. Organizational learning is contingent on employees’ learning, but employee learning is only a necessary condition for organizational learning.

Development of Procedures

TJP can develop statement of work (SOW), Maintenance Management Order (MMO), technical handbooks, audit procedures, and other critical documents.

Other Services

Economic Analysis

TJP performs economic research in a variety of areas. For instance, it looks at relevant economic variables and uses theoretical frames, as well as econometric and other statistical analyses to predict potential outcomes that affects gross domestic product and organizational revenues.

Assessment and Cost Reduction

TJP uses sharp image diagnosis to move quickly from the stated problems to the identification of underlying forces that produce ineffective outcomes. Steps in the Sharp-Image Diagnosis:1

Apply Theoretical Frames:
– Gather data on operations, focus on core problems and challenges.
– Organize problems and challenges, link them to organizational features.

Develop a diagnostic model
– Develop a model that captures the nature of critical challenges and roots of inefficient outcomes.
– Feedback model and relevant data.

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Spend Analysis and Assessment

Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying, and analyzing expenditure data to decrease procurement costs, improve efficiency, and monitor compliance. TJP creates a roadmap for analyzing organizational spending in all areas, even for custodial outlays where we break down the cost by square inch of, say paper towels, and provides clients with more cost-effective alternates that save millions of dollars.

In many organizations procurement are not staffed for conducting spend analysis, others are disconnected from their internal clients, such as maintenance and production, and do not conduct periodic assessment of repetitive purchases that have experienced costly bracket creep or are unaware of the latest cost-effective substitutes. TJP will expeditiously perform procurement spend analysis, identify high cost outlays and seek cost-effective substitutes. Our reports include clear targets, savings, ROI estimates, and a roadmap for execution.

Maintenance Procedures

Is your production equipment unreliable and costly due to a lack of structured maintenance? TJP can help your organization develop a structured maintenance regime, using your computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). We evaluate manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations, reliability, and cost records from CMMS’ or manual data and develop a structured maintenance regime with the organization’s personnel to ensure learning, commitment, and involvement. We also examine and optimize existing maintenance regimes, in some instances organizations are either over or under PMing their productive assets. Read More.

Stock Recommendations

 

The Jethro Project Consulting Group can find investment ideas for your portfolio with the latest stock picks. For a small monthly fee, we will email a monthly recommended stock.

One way to start investing in the stock market is by opening a qualified retirement account, such as a traditional IRA, that allows for stock trading. For most, contributions to these accounts reduce the savers’ taxable income, see irs.gov. So, with a traditional IRA savers reduce their taxable for the year of their contributions.