The D. Parr solution is an elegant and powerful system which combines effective interview methods and quantitative
measuring expertise with advanced database and web-based technologies. The D. Parr System effectively identifies,
addresses and resolves your organization's key business issues.

Your company can monitor the progress of action items or other business activity at any level of detail or immediately
identify new business problems as they arise. By identifying concerns in live time, your management team can incisively
'nip them in the bud.'

We can also teach your team how to apply our processes or applications to future problems. In effect, we equip your
company with the skills and tools to become a self-correcting organization. Further, we are always available to assist when
you need us.

 

 


The D. Parr System begins by applying specific interview techniques with your steering committee. This committee is
comprised of your company's executives, managers and employees as chosen by your organization. Further information is gathered through additional interviews with selected employees knowledgeable in the focus areas. These additional
interviews can be completed on-line in two hours or less.

Information and findings collected from the interviews are not traceable to the individual. This allows open and honest participation without fear of reprisal. The organization's vision, goals, objectives, issues and their associated priorities, cause and effect relationships, inter-department linkages, functional overlaps or responsibility gaps, financial and budgetary information, and any other key factors are captured in these interviews.

We have chosen to partner with Priority Systems of Orem, Utah, and incorporate their highly effective PriorityPath® process
into our solution. Through the interview process, PriorityPath® identifies variables which will make your company successful,
as well as any real and potential risks that reduce the probability of success. The PriorityPath® process has been used with great success in a number of countries. It has significantly benefited federal, state and provincial governments, schools and school systems, the health care industry, and many commercial and non-commercial organizations.

By actively engaging the most important elements of your organization - your employees - this process creates a climate and culture among participants that fosters productivity, cooperation, and success by controlling and eliminating resisting forces, barriers and inhibitors. Other advantages to this approach include:


• Critical risks, issues, actions and attitudes are identified and aligned.
   
• Finding where key individuals and groups differ on ranked issues/risks makes critical mismatches visible and manageable.
   
• The scope of the solutions to be implemented can be aligned with available project funds and the organization's priorities
so the largest results are realized for the money spent on the corrective action plan.
   
• Morale improves as personnel at all levels become involved in determining priority issues/risks, and subsequently
removing or attenuating them.
   
• Organizations have consistently improved their quality management systems and capitalized upon the potential that ISO
9000 certification provides for controlling costs and improving profitability.
   
• PriorityPath® meets the requirements for Risk Management specified by the US Government.



 

The next critical step in the D. Parr System is to convert and quantify the data into a common language and frame of measurement. Difficulty in addressing challenges before they become crises rests typically, not in a lack of data, but the
proven ability to translate in a timely manner unrefined data into useful, appropriate information.

Our system is based on the paradigm of each position being the sum of not only its tasks but also correlated accountability
and responsibility. Rarely does a company's organization chart depict how work is actually done and decisions made. We
map out the true structure of the organization, the often hidden linkages and interdependencies, and expose responsibility
gaps and overlaps. By accurately identifying these relationships we are able to overlay quantifiable measurements to ensure every position has the correct levels of responsibility and accountability. Our system makes this information and resulting solutions transparent to all levels of the organization. Because employees have shared their knowledge and insights within the process, they can see the measurable results and impact of their participation. As a result, they are highly connected with the outcome of the process, and the probability of success is greatly enhanced.

The D. Parr Group has developed a proprietary database application and evaluation process called the Transparent Matrix. The Transparent Matrix converts the data collected in the earlier 'Identify' step, as well as all other relevant criteria, into a common language. This conversion allows the comparison of 'apples and oranges' in an objective and quantifiable manner,
so that issues, risks and costs can be clearly evaluated in a meaningful way. Solutions are then created and prioritized, each with predicted solution paths.

Once the Transparent Matrix is built and installed on the company's server, it operates in perpetuity . By regularly updating
the Transparent Matrix, the company is able to generate performance audits in real time. This process provides the information and tools for executives and employees to operationalize strategies, effect decisions, and enhance organizational agility.

Data from within the Transparent Matrix can be represented in report form (Business Objects), and/or transferred to
Microsoft Project or Microsoft Organizational Chart for organizational review. This data is also made available to the
Handshake Software suite of products allowing for overall integration and reporting of the company's data repositories
without data duplication.


 

The Identify and Measure stages of our system generates a large number of issues, associated priorities, risks, and corresponding solutions, as well as relative implementation costs. The D. Parr Team helps your organization choose the
issues to attack, and the solutions to effectively resolve those issues. A detailed action plan is then generated regarding statistics, specific timelines, measures and milestones. We implement within your organization a method to generate
real-time performance audits in order to immediately identify problems and evaluate the effectiveness of your solutions.

Corporations and governments frequently spend millions of dollars on information systems and never get the full value from their investment. In many institutions, valuable information is locked in separate systems and data silos. Decision-makers fail
to see the full extent of data relationships and linkages. The ability to merge financial, operational, marketing, and personnel data in a way that provides useful, actionable information is crucial to an organization's success.

To solve this challenge, the D. Parr Group has teamed up with Handshake Software Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Information Integration (EII) products to technology based businesses and corporate legal departments. Handshake Software
is a unique system that automatically ties a company's database systems together, allowing a user to easily find, explore and report on differential information systems via a web-enabled interface. Handshake Software does not make any changes in
your existing systems. It creates new relationship-based information and generates reports in number of Microsoft Office applications while leaving your original data untouched.

Your executive, managers, and employees are able to extract and incorporate the Transparent Matrix' quantitative data with your organization's sales, manufacturing and financial systems data using standard Microsoft Office applications. Reports and summaries are easily created in order to compare actual results against predicted results. Your team can quickly validate the effectiveness of the action plan or immediately correct and fine tune results. This ongoing process of feedback and revisions
will substantively improve the ongoing business health of your company.
 

Some of the many benefits the D. Parr System delivers to your company include:

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Identify and resolve key business issues affecting company performance. Our unique approach identifies and aligns critical issues, actions and attitudes. Hidden resisting forces become visible. Core issues are addressed in a
measurable and achievable manner through a detailed action plan created by your team. A roadmap to success evolves.

   
• Improve the speed of identifying problem trends and potential risks . The D. Parr System delivers real-time business performance audits, issue tracking, and detailed reporting. Management can take preventive action before
major incidents occur.
   
• Improve employee morale and reduce staff turnover. Through the D. Parr System, employees literally see how
their contributions make a difference. Employees become part of the change process and are more supportive of
solutions.
   
• Increase company profits and Net Operating Income. Removing business obstacles and improving employee performance results in higher profitability, greater productivity, and a reduction of lost time and wasted materials.
   
• Make better business decisions. Because tasks and events are converted into a common language, diverse issues
and risks can be quantifiably compared. Insightful business decisions are now made on the basis of measurable facts
rather than assumptions.
   
• Enhance your company's Business Intelligence. Because the D. Parr System uses technology that automatically
ties together your company's disparate data silos, analysts can easily see the full extent of data relationships and
linkages across your organization without the need or expense of creating a central data warehouse. Our solution can
become the basis of a Business Intelligence framework for your organization, or augment your existing Business
Intelligence applications.
   
• Bring out the best performance in your team. The D. Parr System ties the employee's job functions with
responsibility for job deliverables, in addition to empowering the employee with the appropriate level of authority to
perform the job. Energized team members now work to their true potential.
   
• Demonstrate your successes. Since issues, actions and results are measured and reported precisely and
quantitatively, your company can demonstrate to the board of directors, shareholders or creditors the effectiveness of
the corrective action plans, and how actual results closely match the predicted results.
   
• Staff training costs are minimal. The use of standard Microsoft Office applications and web browsers minimizes the
cost of training employees on new reporting tools.
   
• Perform 'what if' scenarios on new projects. The D. Parr System can be used to identify risk and success factors of business ventures and projects before they are undertaken. Your company can perform a due diligence study and analyze 'what if' scenarios to test the ventures' viability, profitability and robustness. Costly problems are avoided or mitigated
before they are encountered.