A business process is an activity or set of activities that can accomplish a specific organizational goal. Business processes should have purposeful goals, be as precise as possible, and have consistent outcomes. However, all businesses have pockets of inefficiency throughout their current systems. The business process assessment is the act of conducting a review and gaining an understanding of business processes. It involves reviewing the components of the process, including inputs, outputs, procedures, controls, actors, applications, data, technologies, and their interactions to produce results.
Nearly every organization can benefit from a periodic business process assessment. As businesses grow and develop, they often lose track of their protocols and procedures, which can have a devastating impact on the overall efficiency and bottom line of the organization. Rasa Consulting performs business process assessments for clients to assist them in defining their organization’s current process flows, reveal, and mitigate their inefficiencies. Through Rasa’s Consulting’s business process assessment, your organization can develop the productivity that it needs to increase its efficiency and continue to expand. The Rasa Consulting team follows the following steps to perform a business process assessment:
A broad definition of socio-economic assessment is the analysis of social, cultural, economic, and political conditions of individuals, groups, communities, and organizations. Civil infrastructure can be considered a basic physical structure that supports our way of life and plays a significant role in a region and country’s social and economic outcomes. Such infrastructure includes roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, ports, airports, distribution grids/networks (such as pipes, poles, and wires used in water, sewage, electricity, and communications), water, and resource management, preparatory civil works, and more.
This assessment is an appraisal of the potential social and economic impacts on different sectors of society, including local communities and groups, civil society organizations, and the private sector. It analyses the social and economic effects, both positive and negative, of planned interventions, policies, programs, projects, and any change processes invoked by the interventions. Key parameters to explore while undertaking such an analysis includes the following:
Rasa Consulting conducts socio-economic and civil infrastructure assessments for its clients using the following techniques:
Value chain assessment is a strategy tool used to analyze internal firm activities. Its goal is to recognize the most valuable activities to the firm, which provide competitive advantages. The value chain refers to a set of interdependent economic activities and a group of vertically linked commercial agents. The value chain represents all the internal activities a firm engages in to produce goods and services. It consists of primary activities that directly add value to the final product and support activities that add value indirectly.
Rasa Consulting conducts value chain analysis by looking at every step required to create a product or service and identifying ways to increase the efficiency of the chain.
In the first step, we at Rasa Consultancy collect data through primary and secondary sources and compile a value chain map to organize the data. The next step is to use the value chain framework and analyze the collected data to explore opportunities and constraints within the chain. In the final stage, we utilize the findings to design a strategy regarding the value chain to improve the organization’s output.
A feasibility study takes all of a project’s relevant factors into account – including economic, technical, legal, and scheduling considerations – to ascertain the likelihood of completing the project successfully. We use feasibility studies to discern the pros and cons of undertaking a project before investing time and money. Feasibility studies also provide an entity with crucial information that could prevent it from entering blindly risky businesses.
Through feasibility studies, Rasa Consulting assists its clients to examine the practicality of a social/economic/developmental proposal, business venture, or idea. Rasa Consulting has assisted the Government of Afghanistan to assess the feasibility and viability of a multi-billion dollar irrigation and hydropower project, i.e., the Shahi Canal Project, that, if implemented, will transform Afghanistan’s economy. Similarly, Rasa Consulting has helped private manufacturing firms such as Erada Saffron and ANSA to examine the demand and requirements for launching new products.