Process Improvement Services is a systematic approach designed to improve business processes and achieve more efficient results. Momentum, Inc. employs a team of experienced Business Analysts who offer quality process improvement services based on the latest industry best practices. Momentum maintains both the experience and knowledgeable resources to help guide and improve your business process needs.

Momentum can help improve desired processes within your organization through:

• Business Analysis Center of Excellence Establishment: Centers of Excellence are teams of individuals who are well-established within a company or organization that are created to promote collaboration and best practices application. With its continued success, Momentum helps establish these groups, promoting long-term results in your business.
• RFP and RFQ Development: Requests for Proposal and Requests for Quotation are documents that request specific solutions to a problem, as well as pricing options for those solutions. Development of these requests is essential to identifying the best source of a service. Through concentrated analysis, Momentum helps businesses develop the best RFPs and RFQs for their needs.
• Business Analysis:  Business Analysis is the practice of deriving meaning from your business’ data to use in determining areas of potential improvement. ROI and sales data, for example, can be crucial for businesses to define their needs and identify potential solutions to increase organizational value.
• Workflow Analysis: Workflow Analysis services look at your existing business processes to identify bottlenecks and repetitive activities and implement more effective solutions. The goal of this process is to streamline workflows for maximum efficiency.
• Systems Analysis and Recommendations: Too many companies make use of outdated or insufficient systems. To help you determine the status of your system(s) and make upgrades, Momentum will identify the needs of your business, assess how well your system stacks up and make recommendations for improvement.
• ITIL^® Assessment and Implementation Services: ITIL is a globally-recognized set of best practices for information technology management. Momentum offers assessment and implementation services for ITIL to improve your business’ IT setup and ensure that it meets global standards.
• Education and Training: The first step toward a more efficient business is to create a more effective workforce. Momentum offers comprehensive training solutions from CBAP^® and EEP™ certified trainers to provide your employees the knowledge they need to succeed.

These services help your business by improving workflows, processes and IT components for long-term success.

Momentum improves the way organizations conduct business, recommending and implementing comprehensive solutions to aid every level of a business’ structure. By using our business process reengineering services, businesses can benefit from:

• Improved Business Agility: Improve your business’ ability to stay on top of changing market conditions with more efficient business processes that can more easily adapt to changes.
• Reduced Costs: Improving business processes can help maximize revenues by reducing labor costs and waste while maximizing productivity and flexibility.
• Greater Efficiency: Improving business processes enhances overall efficiency in your business by eliminating bottlenecks and redundancies. This helps reduce lead times and maximize productivity.

Momentum offers these benefits by employing best-practice custom solutions with high-quality resources. Trust Momentum to help your business reach your goals.

Momentum led an assessment of incoming and outgoing mail processing operations in use across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania state agencies as part of a Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Transformation, Innovation, Management, and Efficiency (GO TIME) initiative.  The scope of the project included documenting and evaluating current state incoming mail policies, processes, procedures, equipment, labor, and physical locations and presenting recommendations to the Commonwealth for optimizing and streamlining mailroom operations to align with the GO TIME mission.  Within this assessment, Momentum conducted 29 site visits to individual Commonwealth agency mailrooms to elicit and document FTE counts, vehicles, mileage, incoming and outgoing mail volumes, mail equipment, Post Office (PO) Boxes, internal and external mail runs, mailroom square footage, and mail security screening practices that was used in subsequent current state assessment, future state recommendations, and implementation roadmap development activities.  After conducting a thorough review and analysis of mail processing operations throughout Commonwealth agencies, Momentum researched and incorporated various mail processing best practices, standards, and benchmarking data from other states into Future State recommendations.  Within a formal Future State Recommendations Report and Executive Presentation, Momentum presented a set of five recommendations for improvement solutions complete with research and analysis findings, return on investment calculations, and cost benefit analysis outcomes as well as process improvement success stories.

As an example of the types of recommendations presented to the Commonwealth, Momentum conducted extensive market research of other state governments and United States Postal Service (USPS) programs to recommend a movement from individual agency PO Boxes to a centralized incoming mail processing using ZIP+4 codes for presorting functions.  By implementing this recommendation, the Commonwealth will realize savings of $5.2 Million over five years with a cumulative Return on Investment of 1,125.61%.  In total, the Commonwealth would realize a total return of more than $22 Million across the Commonwealth over five years upon implementation of all recommendations presented by Momentum.

The Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation (DLLR) Division of Unemployment Insurance (UI) provides unemployment benefits to citizens that are currently unemployed through no fault of their own and who are ready, willing and able to work, and actively seeking work. The Contributions Division is a subset within UI that is dedicated to ensuring that eligible citizens of Maryland have access to unemployment insurance benefits.

In an effort to enable auditors to perform complex audits in less time and to detect more misclassified workers, the Contributions Division initiated the Tax Field Audit Improvement Project. Momentum provided a Project Manager to support the Division of UI by overseeing revisions to the Tax Field Audit Improvement Project. The Project Manager was responsible for the following tasks in one of our process improvement success stories:

• Reviewed Maryland’s existing tax audit program
• Researched best practices from other states
• Interviewed existing staff
• Created Needs Assessment based on these findings
• Worked with UI staff to complete a Task Order Request For Proposal
• Interviewed and hired a Development Contractor to oversee the development and implementation of an improved UI Tax Audit program

Prince George’s County, Maryland sought to identify a pool of qualified firms to procure IT Consulting and Technical Services in support of County IT operations and projects.  Momentum was selected as an approved vendor within the following functional areas:

• Program Management Office
• Application/Software Engineering
• Datacenter/Facilities Management
• Service Desk Support
• Enterprise Architecture and New Technologies
• Information Security
• Documentation and Technical Writing

As part of on-going efforts to improve service delivery, the County launched an initiative to procure and implement an ERP system to restructure the collection, management, and consumption of County agency business data through a single, integrated system.  The County established an ERP Program to organize, plan, execute, and centrally manage the various projects involved with the ERP implementation in one of our process improvement success stories.

During the initial planning of the ERP Program, the County contracted Momentum to acquire the services of an expert ERP Program Manager to provide professional guidance and advice to the County with respect to the implementation of the new ERP system in the best interests of the County.  Momentum’s Program Manager provided best practice consulting, program/project management, and other implementation support activities across various ERP initiative phases.  These phases range from procurement and contract award activities for an ERP solution and implementation vendor though the execution of Wave 1 (Finance and Procurement Core Implementation) and Wave 2 (Human Capital Management and Strategic Procurement Core Implementation) projects.  Momentum continues to provide program and project management surrounding the implementation of the following ERP modules:  Financial and Controlling, Public Sector Management, HCM/Payroll, and Purchasing/Inventory.

One of our business improvement success stories includes Momentum having provided subject matter expertise in business process re-engineering and military supply chain management for a Top Business Process Initiative (BPI) team for the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP). The team was contracted to provide NAVSUP with a repeatable methodology that facilitates root cause analysis of selected Information Technology Leadership Forum (ITLF) business process issues, the identification and creation of supporting solution alternatives, and the generation of recommended solution alternatives for implementation.

The team conducted forensic system analysis on Navy ERP and certain legacy systems to identify high-impact business issues. The team developed root causes from empirical data compiled from over 650 purchase orders and mapped 87 identified root causes to 257 business cases. Through a series of facilitated workshops, the Top BPI team then documented business process flows, IT interfaces, and solution alternatives to address identified root causes. The Team subsequently vetted solution alternatives with NAVSUP personnel and evaluated level of effort and overall benefit for each alternative. By comparing the benefit and level of effort, the team presented solution recommendations with an implementation strategy that included a Plan of Action and Milestones, Rough Order of Magnitude, and To-Be Models of Selected Solution Alternatives.

In one of our Momentum provided a Project Manager/Business Analyst to Holy Spirit Hospital to provide daily support with meeting management, project coordination, status reporting, documentation creation and review, and risk mitigation.  Momentum performed the following activities:

• Monitored and tracked issues and issue resolution, recommended escalations when necessary
• Managed and maintained the NextGen Project Implementation Plan
• Provided instruction and guidance on the documentation of pre-NextGen and post-NextGen physician office workflow
• Facilitated meetings to create physician office downtime procedures
• Created an implementation checklist that encompassed IT and physician office personnel roles and responsibilities
• Provided weekly status reports to the CIO along with recommendations for orchestrating organizational changes successfully
• Provided project management recommendations for other IT projects
• Created and modified project closure documentation
• Formatted large amounts of data

Another one of our process improvement success stories includes Momentum having partnered with Penn State University to establish a Business Analysis Certificate program in the continuing education department of the University.  Developed and delivered by Momentum’s Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP^®) qualified staff, the Business Analysis Certificate program supplied participants with 56 hours of professional development units and fulfills the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA^®) education requirement in order to qualify for the CBAP^® designation.  Momentum developed and delivered the following four-course curriculum in the program to obtain the Business Analysis Certificate:  Introduction to Business Analysis; Plan, Elicit, and Assess Requirements; Requirements Analysis; Requirements Management; and Communication.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) works to improve the quality of life for Pennsylvania citizens and families by ensuring access to high-quality services across the Commonwealth. Within DHS, the Office of Medical Assistance Programs (OMAP) administers joint state/federal Medicaid programs providing access to comprehensive healthcare services for more than two million eligible Pennsylvania residents. Momentum provides various technical assistance and consulting services to OMAP in support of its delivery of services and to identify, develop, and implement improvements to its existing operations that will benefit OMAP, DHS, providers, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania citizens surrounding medical assistance program disbursement, receipt, use, and reimbursement processes. Within the OMAP Technical Assistance and Consulting Services contract, Momentum delivers professional services within the following categories: Executive Support, Agreement and Research Support, Program Monitoring Support, Medical Assistance Transportation Support, and Quality Management Support.

Momentum works closely with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) IT and business units to provide lifecycle business process management, requirements management, and implementation support services across PennDOT’s portfolio of IT projects through various Work Order (WO) projects. Working with PennDOT to scope, deliver, and manage WO projects, Momentum has completed, or is in the process of completing, more than 100 WO projects across all six PennDOT Deputates (Administration, Planning, Local Area Transportation, Safety, Highway, and Aviation) since initiating the first of two contracts in 2009. In addition to the delivery of business analysis services within WO projects, Momentum supports the enhancement of PennDOT’s internal Business Analysis methodology and provides knowledge transfer services to PennDOT analysts as they support their customers. In the first year of this contract, Momentum established a Business Analysis Center of Excellence (BACoE) within PennDOT to institute Business Analysis standards based upon International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) *A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide)* principles across PennDOT’s business and IT organizations.

During the development of the BACoE at PennDOT, Momentum developed and published BACoE Standards based on IIBA® *BABOK® Guide* best practices and a BACoE Tool Kit that included the following components: Business Analysis Templates, PMO Templates requiring involvement from Business Analysts, Requirement Definitions, BACoE Standards, BACoE Service Delivery Process (Includes Cross-Functional Process Flows and Narratives), BACoE Processes and Standards Document.

The Latino Hispanic American Community Center of the Greater Harrisburg Region (LHACC) contracted Momentum to provide strategic planning and management consulting services to increase performance and strengthen all aspects of the organization.  Momentum helped make organizational improvement recommendations to LHACC by:

• Conducting an “as is” study (by interviewing staff and reviewing historical records) to make a thorough recommendations report
• Providing a gap analysis to help LHACC outline and prioritize areas targeted for improvement
• Working with the Executive Director to create a roadmap for improvement and provided consulting services
• Performing long range strategic planning and measures
• Identifying a process for the Board of Directors/staff to improve the vitality of the organization
• Mentoring the Executive Director and other key stakeholders to improve operations

Momentum was responsible for:

• Analyzing all services, making recommendations, and implementing an action plan
• Seeking opportunities to maximize human resources, including:  reviewing and updating job descriptions and salary ranges for all staff, assisting the Board of Directors in creating a new contract for Executive Director
• Improving the organization’s internal communications
• Assessing the effectiveness of existing programs, including: After School Program, Food Bank, ESL training, HIV Outreach, Case Management/Information and Referral Services, etc.
• Reviewing and helping gain efficiencies in financial reporting/training, budgeting, financial software, grant processing, information management, communication, security, and other daily operations