Our business sectors
Linovati’s experts have gained their experience from various business sectors: because of their extensive expertise and our methodology’s robustness, they are able to master the specific applications according to each sector.
Whether they’re dealing with health care and social services, public or private services, manufacturing or information technologies sectors, ours experts know the challenges of these business sectors and the solutions to meet those challenges.
Health care and social services
Ongoing efforts are being made to improve the accessibility and quality of the services to the population, all while reducing cost increases. In this context, the health and social services key challenges remain unchanged:
- Improve the organizational performance in a context of limited resources
- Improve the service offer to respond to the evolving needs of the ageing population
- Carefully integrate new practices and technological progress
- Ensure the availability and retention of a qualified workforce
- Etc.
If adding resources – both human and financial – can no longer be considered a solution, then how do we meet these challenges? Largely due to better work organization and the implementation of an effective and sustainable continuous improvement culture.
Public services
The various levels of government face ongoing challenges which, even with the implementation of various initiatives and solutions, seem difficult to meet:
- Growing public debt
- Persistent budget deficits
- Increasing operating costs and changing technological solutions
- Declining leeway to increase expenses and tax revenues
- Mass staff retirements
- Heavy and complex bureaucracy
- Ongoing citizen dissatisfaction regarding some services
- Etc.
These challenges constitute powerful incentives to initiate a change towards the continuous improvement of efficiency and performance in public services. And for that change to be truly effective, they often have to make use of solutions that venture off the beaten track.
Private services
Private services organizations drive the economy: they create jobs, generate revenues, create wealth for society. To fulfill their mission or even exceed it, they however have to deal with certain challenges:
- Enhanced global competitiveness
- Pressure to generate profits
- Difficulty in recruiting qualified workers
- Increasingly complex regulatory context
- Significant funding problems
- Etc.
To remain competitive and keep up with world-class organizations, private services companies need to rethink their methods, find innovative solutions that will enable them to differentiate themselves: they need to use the best practices in work organization and performance improvement.
Manufacturing sector
Global value chains radically transform the way goods and services are produced. New information and communication technologies are omnipresent and allow for the emergence of revolutionary technology and processes regarding robotization and automation, which deeply modify the way the products are designed and manufactured.
Organizations are more and more interrelated within supply chains and global production networks, which they have to make the most effective use of.
In addition, they face ruthless international competition, from which only the most productive, innovative and flexible organizations can come out as winners.
One of the keys to address those challenges lies in the innovation and optimization of performance. But most of all, it is the firm establishment of an effective and sustainable culture of continuous improvement that will enable manufacturing sector organizations to truly distinguish themselves.
Information technology
In support to the business process, information technologies have become of vital importance to support the efficiency and growth of organizations. Sometimes, they even constitute the core of certain organizations, which face significant challenges:
- The rapid evolution of technology
- Projects over budget or over deadline
- Difficulty in satisfying users
- Explosion of innovation, development, operational and maintenance costs
- Difficulty finding and retaining specialists in the workforce
- Etc.
To make the most of these strengths and possibilities, organizations will need to concentrate on high value added activities and, above all, be innovative, quick thinking and tenacious in order to continuously increase the efficiency, productivity and performance of IT.