Capabilities directory
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- Function: Operations and process improvement
- Function: Project and delivery
- Business situation: Established businesses
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45 capabilities, showing 25 to 45
Project intake and capacity review
When a new initiative is proposed, the portfolio owner sees it scored on the business's own criteria beside the projects already committed, the delivery days it would use month by month, and what it would crowd out or push later. The owner accepts, defers or rejects it.
Project lessons review
When a phase or a project ends, the project manager gets one blameless review: whether it achieved what it was for, how scope, schedule and budget moved and why, whether the success measures were the right ones, and practice changes for the team to choose, each with an owner and a follow-up date.
Project scope baseline
A project manager turns an approved brief into a draft scope baseline: the deliverables, what is excluded, the acceptance criteria for each deliverable, the constraints and the open questions for the sponsor. Nothing implied counts as scope until the sponsor says so.
Project status report
The lead of an internal project gets a status report the sponsor can read in two minutes: each workstream red, amber or green with the reason, what moved, who must clear each blocker, the decisions needed and the dates at risk. No milestone is called done without evidence, and the lead confirms every status.
Provider credentialing and re-credentialing tracker
The credentialing coordinator keeps one tracker per clinician: each licence, registration, certification, insurance policy and payer enrolment, where it was verified, when it falls due, the day its renewal should start, and which files are not yet complete. A person contacts every board and payer.
Records request preparation check
When a request for copies of records arrives, the records officer gets a checklist: what the request asks for, what the supplied authorization documents say, who the copies would go to, each set against the practice's own release procedure, with every gap listed. A person decides what, if anything, is released.
Referring practice meeting brief
Before meeting a referring office that has raised handoff problems, the practice liaison gets one brief: what was promised to that office and whether each promise was kept, the questions its staff keep asking, counted by topic, and a proposed agenda. Counts only, no patient detail; the liaison decides.
Repeat incident pattern review
A safety lead with a year of incident records and earlier actions gets them compared in groups: confirmed causes, what was done before, and where incidents recur, with questions for the team. A competent person judges what the pattern means.
Reviewer comments into one resolution list
The owner of a document that came back from several reviewers gets one checklist: every proposed edit and comment, grouped by section, with clashes between reviewers set side by side. Every item stays open until the owner decides it, and the document itself is never touched.
Safety walk follow-up
After a safety walk, the manager gets a follow-up brief that ties each concern workers raised to the commitment the manager made, its owner and due date, and the message to give back. Gaps arrive as questions, never as guesses.
Schedule recovery options
When a committed milestone slips, the project manager brings the sponsor two to four ways back: what each changes, the dates it gives every later milestone and dependency, and the assumptions it rests on. The sponsor chooses; delivery leads confirm the dates.
Scope change impact review
When new work turns up in a project plan, the project manager gets one review: every deliverable compared with the agreed baseline, each addition marked approved or not, its estimated effect on effort, cost and the end date, and the decision the sponsor has to make. The sponsor accepts or declines each one.
Site safety induction pack
For one named site, the site, facilities or people lead gets an induction built from that site's own emergency arrangements, rules and hazards, with a short check of understanding, a sign-off record for each person and refresher dates by role. A competent person approves it and delivers it.
SOP exception capture
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
Stakeholder and decision rights map
Before kickoff, the project manager holds one map of everyone the project touches: each group placed by influence and interest, every key decision with exactly one accountable owner, the decision makers still missing, and who hears what, when and from whom. The sponsor confirms every decision right.
Store facts file
The person who runs an online store builds the one file every other store capability reads first: what the store sells, the facts each product page should state, the statements it stands behind, buyers' questions, policies, roles and access. Nothing on the store is changed.
Temporary change register
For a site or operations manager with temporary changes to equipment, layout or process still in place: a register of every change with its expiry date, the checks still outstanding and the procedures and training it touches, ready for the competent person who decides what happens next.
Training needs analysis
For one team, the HR lead or team manager gets what each role must be able to do, how many people can do it now, where the team falls short, and the training to arrange first, with who arranges it and by when. Counted by role, never a rating of a named person.
Vendor renewal review
Before a supplier's notice date, the operations lead takes one page to the decision: the dates counted from the ones you supply, how much of what you pay for is used, what it has cost and what renewal would cost, how the supplier has performed, and the questions to ask. Nothing is sent or cancelled.
Weekly open-matter check
Every Monday the operations manager sees every open matter: which tasks are overdue, which have no owner, and which matters could not be checked at all. The managing partner gets one summary, and each responsible attorney gets a note that is drafted and ready for the manager to send.
Workplace risk assessment
For one task or workplace, the site or operations manager gets each hazard, who could be harmed, the controls already in place, a likelihood-and-severity rating before and after, and further controls with an owner and a date, ready for a competent person to review and sign.