Methodology

By combining leading strategic management principles, industry standards and best practices with proven economic, lifecycle, engineering, sustainability and analysis models, iPlan™ provides a unique approach and methodology that enables organizations to Plan, Capture, Analyze and Execute strategic processes across the the four pillars of sustainability to establish the basis of performance optimization for their Built Environment.

4tell™'s approach is to drive informed, sustainable business decisions through the creation of usable knowledge by the capture, management and analysis of vital business and operating data. By empowering organizations with knowledge, they are able to plan, manage and improve their business results by creating capital investment strategies which align with their core mission and business objectives while being designed to improve bottom-line financial performance.

The Performance Management Mindset

Organizations with their sights on Sustainable Financial Performance have acknowledged the opportunity for improvement as well as the significant potential for sustainable operations. Once everyone realizes that the function they are performing has an impact on improving overall performance, an organization is poised for leadership.

By adopting the performance management methodology and following the strategic processes - Plan, Capture, Analyze and Execute - organizations create an iterative knowledge engine populated with the evolving learning and built-in subject matter expertise. This iterative process combined with industry knowledge, benchmarks, and configurable business processes results in an efficient, affordable and manageable approach to optimizing all available capital and natural resources.

The process begins with defining key performance indicators (KPIs), measuring and benchmarking current performance levels, setting organizational goals and objectives for improvement, identifying opportunities for improvement through assessment and analysis and understanding an organization’s financial model and available resources. This process supports the creation of a strategic capital plan that achieves performance improvement goals based on financial, energy, environmental, security and social dimensions, as well as through effective project execution, with measurement and verification of results, while keeping all stakeholders informed through sustainability reporting.

The outcome is an enterprise-wide strategy for Sustainable Financial Performance that optimizes the use of all capital and natural resources while delivering improved bottom-line results.