Leadership and Planning

September 20, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

Leadership and Planning

All businesses and their activities involve planning to provide structure and direction, as well as management and leadership to ensure success. Effective planning processes and dynamic leadership set businesses apart in today’s competitive market place. MRD and our partners have extensive experience in leadership and planning, the assessment of planning and management systems and practices.

MRD’s experience base incldues the planning and successful conduct of high risk special operations missions as well as high impact business planning. MRD’s leadership credentials are also extensive with experience in Special Operations, senior management within corporate and commercial environments and within the public sector.

We know that effective planning and dynamic leadership will result in:

The identification of opportunities and threats
Structured processes that are easy to follow, maintain and adjust
Effective allocation of resources
The ability to change direction or act quickly to take advantage of new opportunities
A sense of empowerment, belonging and ownership throughout the organisation
A stronger and more resilient position in the marketplace

MRD can help facilitate this through:

Operational and developmental planning and advice
Education and training to leaders and managers in planning and processes
Diagnostic reviews to increase effectiveness and efficiency
Scenario based leadership training
Group or individual leadership experiences

For more information on how you can enhance your business leadership and planning, Contact Us for a free consultation to discuss options.

Filed Under: Business Planning, E Learning, Education, International, Leadership, Security Tagged With: business, education, evaluation, leadership, operations, planning, special operations, training

Business Resilience Continuum – Crisis, Emergency Management and Business Continuity

September 20, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

Business Resilience Continuum – Crisis, Emergency Management and Business Continuity

At some point in their life cycles all businesses will face emergency and crisis situations and events. If businesses are underprepared or respond ineffectively to such events the net affect could result in significant loss and irrepairable damage to the business.Effective planning and response will allow a business not only to survive such and event, but return to normal business operation as quickly as possible whilst minimizing loss and damage. At MRD we help business ensure that such events are not only adequately prepared for, but indentified and responded to early to maximize the likelihood of event avoidance.

MRD sees the Business Resilience Continuum as the overarching system that includes the disciplines of Incident Management, Emergency Management, Crisis Management, and Business Continuity and Recovery. This requires a systems based approach as each element cannot be treated in isolation or full recovery is unlikely to be achieved.

The objectives of a truly systems based approach are:

Effective monitoring of events and triggers
Effective planning and preparation for events
Well written and appropriate plans and procedures that are effectively communicated and fully understood
A full understanding of event processes as well as response management and leadership
The ability to successfully transition from reponse to continuity and recovery phases in order to achieve resumption of normal business operations as soon as possible
Mitigation and reduction of loss or damage to people, environment, assets, reputation and livelihood

As a result of extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of Business Continuity and Management based systems, MRD is able to help businesses achieve true business resilience through:

Diagnostic reviews to assess resilience threats and system requirements
Development and implementation of effective monitoring systems
Systematic planning and preparation for event avoidance, response and recovery
Stakeholder education and training to include response and management teams
Development and implementation of effective plans and procedures
Event simulation and real time advice

For more information on how you can make your business and leadership more resilient, Contact Us for a free consultation to discuss crisis, emergency and business continuity.

Filed Under: Business Consulting, Business Innovation, Change Management, Crisis Leadership, Leadership, Security Tagged With: business, continuity, crisis, education, leadership, management, resilience, training

Project Management

June 25, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

Project Management

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Project management can be necessitated for internal, joint and external business operations. Time, expertise and resources can make the process difficult for even the biggest of companies. It is therefore extremely important to ensure that businesses appoint the right people, business and scope to the project lead elements.

Tendering, construction, change, implementation or expansion may constitute the trigger for a new project but the scale and location may compound your best efforts.

We have led, selected, managed, and directed projects of all types in a variety of environments. Our team and partners have faced countless challenges and overcome incredible obstacles in the pursuit of results and schedule timeliness.

Our team and approach can identify many of the issues and challenges before any budget or schedule is at risk. Detailed planning and project leadership are essential to our success and we can help companies of all sizes excel. With a provision of systems, leadership, expertise, experience and resources our project management is far superior to the majority of the market.

Filed Under: Business Consulting, Project Management Tagged With: budget, consulting, leadership, project management, project planning, Risk management

E-Learning Solutions

June 4, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

E-Learning Solutions

Businesses need to develop and support their leadership teams and managers. Time, distance, availability and daily demands make collective education and training difficult. Online or e-learning is increasingly accessible and ideally suited for many training and development solutions.

Businesses and departments can create a suite or complimentary online, accessible training solutions for just about any management role and function.

Management Research and Develop have created simple, 5 step training programs online for key decision makers up to large executive training and development systems to produce better, more prepared senior executives.

We can standardise foundation training, provide advance education concepts and deliver priority resource material to assist decision making processes during time-critical events.

Filed Under: E Learning, Education Tagged With: consulting, development, e-learning, education, leadership, management, research, training