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Operational Excellence​

Lead the way in continuous improvement

The ability to optimise internal performance is a major competitive advantage in Energy and Utilities. Practicing continuous improvement will unlock gains in efficiency and morale, contributing to commercial benefits through reduced waste and greater customer value. At BFY, we specialise in embedding Operational Excellence across People and Process, establishing ways of working that are proven to deliver results.

 

Our experts adopt a bottom-up approach, identifying the root causes of your operational challenges, to guide you through change in the most impactful areas. This accelerates your strategic growth, while developing a robust, high-performing culture that enhances attraction and retention.

Our Operational Excellence capabilities

 

We’ve built a team of industry leaders in Operational Excellence, giving us the capability to support Energy and Water suppliers of all sizes, across the B2C and B2B markets.

 

Our Operational Excellence model focuses on two fundamental areas:

People

Empower your teams and create a sustainable, problem-solving culture, which delivers better value for you and your customers. We help your people to become more engaged and motivated, instilling a mindset that promotes sustainable progress, long after you’ve finished working with us.

Process

Streamline your processes to become agile and efficient. We help you to assess your operational maturity, taking action in the right areas to maximise output and enable high-performance in the long-term.

We also provide support in other areas of operations, including:

  • Settlements – helping you to reduce back office exceptions and improve your settlement performance

  • Billing - improving billing performance and accuracy, while minimising operational exceptions, to help drive your operating cashflow

  • Revenue leakage - resolving your under-billed and over-settled (over-charged) accounts, to deliver significant cashflow improvements

Operational process improvements deliver ~£15m cash benefit for large energy retailer

Large B2B supplier increases efficiency with operational excellence

Our People

For more information on Operational Excellence in Energy and Utilities, contact one of our experts below.

Kev leads our continuous improvement and lean transformations, working with leaders to deliver our Operational Excellence programme.

Kevin Brown

Leanne helps clients to achieve Operational Excellence through demand reduction, process optimisation, and cost to serve initiatives.

Leanne Armstrong

Jon helps clients resolve problems with billing, settlements, and customer service

Jon Vincent

Lauren leads our clients through Operational Excellence, Lean Transformations and Continuous Improvement activity.

Lauren McCullough

Craig has experience working on both large and small-scale business transformations, IT and people migration programmes, change management and leading cultural transformation

Craig Sutherland

Why do our clients choose us?

BFY Group is the trusted change partner in Utilities. By applying strategic insight and hands-on delivery expertise, we help suppliers to tackle their most disruptive problems, delivering tangible results that enhance bottom-line performance and facilitate continuous improvement.

Utility suppliers come to us when faced with:

  • Teams or processes that are underperforming

  • Operational waste, which is impacting commercial results

  • A lack of internal capability or capacity to deliver improvements

 

In return, we provide:

  • Actionable guidance to drive output from people and processes

  • Strategic support for a long-term shift in operational culture

  • A forecast of the commercial benefits for each recommended approach

Case studies

Jon Vincent
Senior Manager
Lauren McCullough
Manager
For more information, please contact:
For more information, please contact:
Jon Vincent
Senior Manager
Lauren McCullough
Manager
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