Costs and margins
Identify and reduce avoidable costs to retain more of the value your business creates.
More potential. More possibilities.
Strengthen your business
to grow, innovate and
compete.
We optimize your processes to reduce costs and improve productivity, incorporating innovation, automation and
artificial intelligence where they add value.
Business needs
When day-to-day demands leave little room to move forward.
You want to serve more customers, deliver more reliably and pursue new opportunities. Yet your team may spend too much time repeating tasks, correcting errors or waiting for decisions across departments.
Business diagnostics
A comprehensive view of your operations and opportunities.
Process redesign
Less friction and more value across your business.
Capacity to grow
A stronger foundation for new opportunities.
Improvements that move your business forward
EFO designs and implements efficiency projects,
connecting improvements across departments with results for the business as a whole.
Productivity and operating capacity
Simplify work and balance workloads to achieve more with the resources available.
Structure and coordination
Align responsibilities and ways of working so that decisions lead to more effective execution.
Processes and management information
Improve workflows and performance indicators to provide clearer direction and sustain progress.
Professional experience
Experience that supports our ability to deliver.
Professional experience underpinning EFO Designers’ capabilities in consulting and business leadership.
Retail · Credit assessment
< 5 min
Credit assessment time
From 2 hours to under 5 minutes.
Retail · Collections
80%+94%
Collections from new customers
From 80% to over 94% within the category of customers classified as reliable payers.
Efficiency Committee
USD 4 million
Annualized savings
Savings achieved, expressed on an annualized basis.
Our approach
Understand what to change and move forward with confidence.
- 01Diagnostics
- 02Root-cause analysis
- 03Economic impact
- 04Improvements
- 05Measurement
A solution delivers more value when it addresses the cause of a problem. We therefore analyze how your business operates and assess the economic impact of opportunities before deciding which improvements to implement.
This foundation helps simplify and optimize work, and apply innovation, artificial intelligence and automation where they can contribute most.
5:1
Measurable results. A minimum 5:1 return commitment.
EFO Designers delivers projects to reduce costs, increase productivity and achieve measurable results, with a minimum guaranteed return of 5:1 where the diagnostic findings support that commitment, subject to the conditions agreed for each project.
EFO Designers
Designing organizations that can achieve more.
Efficient Organization Designers expresses EFO’s purpose: improving how a business is organized and operates so that its resources and capabilities support its goals.
EFO combines experience leading consulting projects with managerial and executive responsibilities.
Learning and programs
Learn to recognize opportunities and make well-founded decisions.
EFO shares its methodology through certifications for professionals and executives.
CEA®
Chartered Efficiency Analyst®
Business diagnostics and economic assessment of efficiency opportunities.
Available through eAlumni. Certification issued by EFO Designers.
CEC®
Chartered Efficiency
Consultant
CEM®
Chartered Efficiency
Manager
Your next opportunity starts with a conversation.
You know where you want to take your business. Let’s discuss what you need to achieve and the improvement opportunities that can help you take that next step.