Areas of Practice
(Please click an Area of Practice to view its description)
CONTRACT SCOPE MANAGEMENT AND NEGOTIATION
As they often say in business, "you don't get what you deserve; you get what you negotiate." BMS has the experience and acumen to be your secret weapon in any contract negotiation, protecting your organization against the profit and schedule drain of ambiguous scope and unfavorable agreements. We are also proficient at the additional negotiations required during the project as change orders arise. These crucial negotiations are often overlooked and can be the key to completing your projects on time and on budget.
RISK PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Identifying risks, developing mitigation plans, and executing on those plans. Tracking progress. Communicating internally and externally. Securing the proper resources to mitigate the risks. Ensuring all internal and external stakeholders understand the potential impacts of the risks and their remediation. All of these tasks are hallmarks of the solid risk management solutions BMS is known for. Our varied experience with multimillion dollar, multi-location programs and projects, as well as our expertise with multi-level stakeholder involvement, make us second to none in this area that is so critical to your success.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
Stakeholder management is one of the most critical components to the successful delivery of any project, program or activity, and is a BMS specialty. We are uniquely endowed with the skills to identify stakeholder priorities and pain points, and have the diplomacy to manage them effectively.
KEYNOTE SPEAKING
Across organizational boundaries of industry, people are the factor that most highly impact the success or failure of projects and processes. This truth is experienced from the board room to the household. BMS combines its passion for raising more effective leaders with its decades of success leading diverse teams across the nation to deliver insights that propel teams forward.
PERFORMANCE TRAINING
Keynotes can introduce exciting new ideas and begin change within your organization. Going beyond the keynote with workshops, coaching, and consulting can ensure that the concepts introduced are effectively applied to create meaningful and sustainable change. BMS experts will work with your team in a more in-depth and interactive format to lock in the learning beyond the keynote and ensure true transformational change.
SCHEDULE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
These nuts and bolts of program and project management are the heart of day-to-day operations. Ensuring all resources aware of their tasks and due dates. Ensuring milestones met. Continuously updating assigned resources on coming due dates and gaining status updates from those resources. Ensuring any linkages between tasks and resources properly communicated when any changes are made impacting them. BMS is well versed in these functions as well as managing tasks that are the customer’s, consultant’s, or integrator’s responsibility.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
When your plan to maintain a desired level of excellence in your projects’ output includes determination of a quality policy, creating and implementing quality planning and assurance, and quality control and quality improvement, BMS is prepared to take the lead. We will oversee all activities and tasks needed to manage the quality of your program or project.
COST MANAGEMENT
BMS is highly skilled in all aspects of cost management, including planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and controlling costs so that your project can be completed within the approved budget. Our cost management processes cover the full life cycle of a project, from the initial planning phase through measuring the actual cost performance and project completion.
SUBCONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT
Subcontract management promotes consistency in managing subcontracts across functions, mitigates risk to the organization and contract, and can increase profitably. BMS will help define expectations across procurement and program management personnel as a critical component of your subcontract management.
INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT
The BMS Core 4 Principles approach is integral to our integration management process and will be instrumental to your program’s success. It helps to coordinate all aspects of each project and ensure that all processes in a project run smoothly.
