CIKD’s consulting and Research Department, is one of its most important core units which offers consulting services and industrial and economic studies and research to help the managers to keep pace with the ever-changing and challenging business environment and to help them solve the problems of their organizations. CIKD’s Consulting and Research Department also intends to play significant role in improving the functions of management system in different economic sectors. Industrial organizations and public institutes are the basic clients for CIKD consulting and Research services in these three levels:

  • Industry and related governmental institutions
  • Firms
  • Small and Medium size enterprises

In order to achieve its objectives, CIKD’s Research and Consulting Department, has lunched these plans:

  • Empowering the experts and recreation of the professional capability with emphasis on developing the consulting portfolio and enriching other products
  • Establishing a stable relationship with experts in different industries
  • Effective communication with the scientific community
  • Developing an active and capable network connection with CIKD’s consulting members
  • Identification the opportunities for consulting and research at national and international levels.
  • Developing the quality and quantity of publications

Consulting Services:

The process of providing consulting services is to collaborate with the managers of the organizations to recognize and to understand the issues and problems of those firms and to participate in the process of programming and problem-solving.

This process is followed in an integrated framework of services such as determining the appropriate strategy, reviewing and designing the processes, structures, operating and information systems and monitoring the proper implementation of proposed systems based on information technology.

Depending on the needs and demands of the clients, consultancy and research department offers these services:

  • Providing consultancy services as the parent consultant in the implementation process of mega projects
  • Providing clinical services in the operating processes
  • Providing clinical services in CIKD’s counseling clinic in close interaction with clients
  • Accompanying and guiding clients to ensure identification of problems and solving them in a sustainable way
  • Supervision services for implementing the consulting projects
  • Cascading fault and auditing the operations to finding the constraints in the operation.

This Department envisions providing comprehensive and transformational consulting services based on customer’s feedback, logical relation, and Synergy and information technology. These services also have the specifications like focusing on customers’ needs, differentiation, and scientific and empirical validity.

These services are provided in the following main areas:

1- Strategy and change

In the present time, strategic change management is properly considered as the main category of the management as every part of the organization deals with it somehow. Internal environment of the organization changes along with the dramatic transformations in the societal environment, structure and composition of the market, and global environment.

To gain the strategic preparation in order to utilize the environmental opportunities, along with dramatic progress in information technology, some new necessities are required. These necessities also involve changing attitudes to environmental factors.

CIKD’s consulting office, with its network of experts, has the potential to prepare comprehensive services with a focus on the strategic plans.

CIKD’s services in the area of Strategy and Change:

  • Strategic Planning
  • Developing Strategic Thinking
  • Strategic and Economic control management
  • Balanced score card
  • Formulation strategy for business units
  • Strategic alliance
  • Merger and acquisition
  • Key performance indicators.
  • Outsourcing Management
  • Down Sizing
  • Study and Research on concepts ,models and new methods for strategic and Change Management

2 -Market and Production Management

Today, customer stratification and value creation is at the center of new marketing theory. All organizations at every level will only succeed with a proper marketing plan. Marketing, in the modern concept, is a social and managerial process in which the needs and wishes realize through the production, creation and exchange of products. Thanks to its colleagues experience in consulting projects, and its realistic understanding of manager’s issues, CIKD also offers consulting services in the area of marketing and product management.

CIKD’s services in the areas of product and market

  • Strategy formulation and sales, Distribution and marketing systems
  • Structure design and sales, distribution and marketing organizing
  • Strategy formulation and product management methods designing
  • Strategy formulation and sales promotion planning
  • Strategy formulation on the Export development
  • Pricing strategy
  • Consulting services for segmentation strategy
  • Consulting services for industrial marketing
  • Consulting services for service marketing
  • Consulting services for developing a business plan
  • Market feasibility studies
  • Consumer behavior studies
  • E-Marketing
  • Marketing research
  • Customer relationship management
  • Understanding domestic and foreign product markets
  • Customer stratification management
  • Study and research on concepts and methods of modern market management

3-Operation and Production Management

The techniques of operation and product management, is one of the important discussions in business. In the past hundred years, production and operation management as well as changes in business practices, has transformed.

Today, in addition to the principles of scientific management, a strategic perspective about production and operation management is the ruling view.

CIKD is prepared to offer a comprehensive management consulting services in the production and operation area.

CIKD’s services in the operation and production area

  • System design and production procedures and operation including Production control and planning, Inventory control and planning, Maintenance, repair and operations, Material handling, supply chain management, logistics and Service management
  • warehouse billing and coding
  • Siting the factory, Plant layout studies
  • Work measurement, Time measurement, and capacity assessment
  • Value engineering
  • Cascading failure
  • Feasibility studies and technical evaluation of development projects
  • Study and research on modern operation and production methods

4- Quality Management, Productivity and Excellence

The purpose of the services in this area is to help companies and institutions to develop their management capacity in order to implement transformation initiatives and necessary changes for their development.

This objective is generally being considered in various excellence modes of management and productivity systems. Accordingly, providing consulting services, about improving productivity levels in different institutes and systematic identification of issues and providing solution to overcome them are among the services that CIKD provides as the oldest organization offering consulting services. CIKD collaborates with the companies in the field of Management systems based on standards such as Iso9001, Iso14001, OHSA S 18001 and their associated tools such as 5s and six sigma.

CIKD’s services in Quality management, productivity and excellence area

  • Implementing total quality management systems
  • Implementing quality management systems according to the following standards (Integrated management systems):
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 14001
  • OHSAS 18001

Implementing the specific management systems such as:

  • Improving productivity level
  • Designing and deployment of energy/consumption management
  • Creating Self-Assessment system and in order to move toward excellence (EFQM)
  • Designing the assessment and ranking model to be used in different fields
  • Designing and deploying the required systems to develop utilization of quality and productivity techniques and tools Such as 5s and 6sigma
  • Performing Study and research on concepts, models and new methods of quality productivity and excellence.

5- Financial and Economic Management

The wide range of expertise in financial , Economic and investment fields in CIKD’s network, creates the capability of providing comprehensive analysis within this institute as one of the centers of both knowledge based and industry driven organizations and  has raised an appropriate professional core for analytical services. This analysis can, depending on market demand, vary in different levels (Micro and macro) and from one industry to another. For example financial analysis for a company can go so far as the cost accounting and sensitivity analysis. In a Macro perspective, this analysis in a set of active firms in an industry results in a larger perspective and drawing the key points of an industry.

CIKD’s service in the areas of financial and economic management

  • Investment
  • Developing the feasibility reports
  • Performing market studies to identify investment opportunities
  • Portfolio management hedging
  • Due diligence
  • Risk assessment
  • Performing Fundamental analysis about different industries for investment applicants
  • Providing Consulting services for the applicant companies to enter the stock exchange
  • Providing Consulting service on financing from external sources and bankable reports
  • Designing Budgeting model
  • Designing Financial systems
  • Performing Cost reduction studies
  • Financial engineering and financial reform
  • Designing Management audits systems
  • Financial and economic database management
  • Due diligence for merger companies
  • Providing Industries average financial ratio
  • Performing Study and research on concepts, modes, new methods of financial arrangement

6- Project Management

Today, one of the key concerns of senior government executives and firm’s managers is to define and implement the projects correctly and properly.

CIKD services in Project Management area:

  • Proving fault cascading services in order to determine the strengths and weakness of project management system based on the excellence models of project oriented organizations.
  • Competency assessment for project managers, competency level promotion programs, determination and educational planning
  • Designing Portfolio project management system including processes , methods and forms
  • Providing project control and planning in the areas of time, cost and scope
  • Providing consulting services on projects risk management
  • Providing consulting services on designing database required in portfolio and project management
  • Providing services on documentation of events in projects and deployment of “lesson learned” process
  • Providing services on equipment supply contracts designing
  • Providing services on claim management
  • Establishment of project management Department (PMO)
  • Study and research on concepts, Models and new methods of project management

7- Human Resource Management

While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a “Soft” management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of organization goals. Integration and coordination between the sub-systems of human resource management system, realizes organization’s strategic objectives more effectively with a network of experts and consultants. , CIKD is prepared to provide comprehensive services in the area of human resource management.

CIKD’s services in the area of human resource management

  • Corporate human resource strategy formulation
  • Empowering organizations to attract skilled, Committed and motivated job candidates
  • implementing the assessment center for corporation managements and staffs
  • performing training needs assessments
  • Designing evaluation system to provide personal development assessment and providing career development opportunities
  • Designing employee appraisal system
  • Cascading failure in human resource management systems
  • Organizational culture assessment

Research Services:

CIKD’s Research Department steps in professionally to develop the business capacity in the global environment.

This department studies and deals with latent needs and problems that leaders and managers facing with. This department also helps them to provide solutions for these problems through reviewing the capacities and bottlenecks in business environments. CIKD’s research department helps managers and policymakers to fulfill their responsibilities and develops theoretical and practical knowledge of leaders.

Competitive markets, changes in customers’ needs and interests, Technology development and its impact on the production of goods and services, globalization and changes in the international business environment, had made research a necessity for organizations and for all of the institutes urging to start venture.

On the other hand, the study and research activities, improve the quality of services .In this approach, CIKD uses results derived from the basic and field studies to compile a local content of training programs and to provide consulting services based on real business needs.

This department has the ability to engage in research and study activities in collaboration with its network members or international organizations and companies in different countries.

This Department’s research services are performed at both micro and macro level and covers the following areas:

  • Market survey at the national and international levels
  • Planning the industrial development at the regional and provincial levels
  • Performing study and research on concepts, models and new methods of management in organizations
  • Reviewing and evaluating the financial and economic status of the firms
  • Performing surveys on the types of economic policies and to provide better solutions
  • Performing study on the effects of regulations on the firms
  • Performing surveys on different regions and countries’ industries and performing comparative studies of various aspects of the industries
  • Performing studies on the urban economy and on financing urban development
  • performing research on potential and unknown issues of industries in different countries
  • Providing database for industries
  • providing industrial land use planning database