Case Studies

  • National Homebuilder
  • The California division of one of the nation’s largest homebuilders identified growth-related challenges in the areas of Land Planning, Field Construction, and Purchasing. The homebuilder specifically identified a need to improve processes and handoffs between Land Planning, Field Construction and Purchasing ...
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  • Global Financial Institution
  • One of the largest financial institutions in the world realized that their corporate real estate information technology platform inhibited future growth, flexibility and productivity. The financial institution initiated a program to address these issues in order to meet its internal goals and to realize their performance objectives ...
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  • International Services Provider
  • One of Canada’s largest providers of integrated management services realized an environment with several growth-related challenges, including: disparate systems, varying procedures, and difficulty in leveling workloads across functions and client accounts ...

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Collaborative Work

Regardless of the type of project at RealFoundations we rely heavily on collaborative work methods to accelerate problem solving and effectively drive change. The key? There is no single, templated format.

Each work session has a varied number of participants, a unique venue, individual objectives and other personalized factors that combine to represent an almost infinite number of discrete types of collaborative work. There are, however, a few natural groupings of session types.

Unique Session Types

Level A – Meetings & Small Work Sessions

This category describes recurring project status meetings, as well as non-recurring meetings called to address a specific, discrete item or issue. They tend to be shorter and involve a relatively small number (10 or fewer) of participants, and have a small number of objectives and desired outcomes.

Example: Status Meetings

Level B – Tactical Facilitated Sessions

There is a wide spectrum of session types within the broader Level B Grouping, but the objectives or desired outcomes of these sessions are tactical in nature. The type and nature of the output for these facilitated sessions is known or know-able before the session starts. These sessions differ from Level A in the complexity of the work to be completed, in the number of session participants, and the quantity and interrelatedness of the work that must be completed.

Example: Future State Process Design Session

Level C – Strategic Facilitated Sessions

The complexity and ambiguity of output of Level C sessions distinguish them from Level B sessions. The objectives of the sessions, list of questions to answer, and participants to invite are definable. But the specific outcome for these sessions can vary widely and the activities conducted within the confines of the session may need to change very quickly. These sessions tend to deal with strategic, organizational or departmental issues.

Example: Project Kickoff Session

RealDiscovery® Sessions

For level B and Level C facilitated sessions, RealFoundations utilizes a RealDiscovery® collaborative work methodology. These sessions use creative and collaborative techniques to solve business problems and make business decisions. There are five main elements that distinguish a RealDiscovery® session:

  • Identify opportunities for improvements
  • Determine leading practices both inside and outside of the organization
  • Apply leading practices to operations
  • Develop consistency of operations throughout
    the enterprise
  • Maximize business efficiencies

The RealFoundations approach to achieving process improvement is through individualized collaborative work sessions between your various divisions, regions or departments. A project team will work closely with key personnel from your company to identify leading practices and common processes, and develop future state business processes that can be built throughout the organization.