Project Management: Health and Wellness Program Implementation Our client engaged Major Oak to manage two new projects:  a health risk assessment and a vendored health coaching program.  Our role as project manager included activities such as conducting weekly status meetings, completing assessments, maintaining the project plan and ensuring effective team communications... Read More > Process Optimization: Shared Services Assessment for a Defense Contractor The project started with a review of the Shared Services business processes, which were documented using Major Oak’s industry leading process maps. Then, two concurrent efforts began. One effort was to understand the processes at the business units (BU) which included detailed process mapping. The second effort was to gather detailed cost information at Shared Services and the BUs through a Time Study and an Activity Based Costing exercise... Read More > Process Optimization: Relocation Policy for a large Restaurant Chain The project began with a review of the current relocation process through detailed interviews with process owners, users of the services, division leaders and HR executives. In parallel, the project team gained insights into the economics behind the moves. The result was an understanding of what worked in the current process, what could be done better, and the cost of different types of moves within the organization... Read More > Project Management: Litigation Support and Application Development for a Financial Services Organization Major Oak Consulting was hired to develop the project approach, manage the daily project activities including business solution definition, archiving rules, new business processes and the development of a custom VB.NET application. The project required cross department interaction and coordination between Legal, IT, Compliance, HR, Finance, Business Units and external storage vendors, each playing an integral part in the initiative... Read More > Project Management: Financial Close Process for a Financial Services Organization The Program contained ten projects, involving 60 people across 8 lines of business. Initially, the primary focus was the redesign of existing processes to compress the close cycle. The PMO worked with each area and line of business within the Financial Operations organization to find process efficiencies and to accelerate the timing of the administrative feeds... Read More >