Dr. RACHAD BAROUDI

In Canada, he worked with Honda of Canada Manufacturing for eight years by refining their planning and performance capabilities. Also, he helped developing short- and long-term strategic plans for Honda of North America and was an active participant in cascading these plans by using Balanced Scorecards methodology.

 

In MENA region, he worked as MENA strategy advisory executive director at Ernst and Young were he assisted more than 100 public and private organizations in developing their strategic plans and performance management frameworks. He worked as a senior strategy and performance advisor for central governments including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Oman, and Ajman. Also, he worked in the organization development field with nationally-owned oil and gas corporations.

 

He worked on multiple policy-making projects in public-sector such as KSA 2030 Vision, Public Social Agenda, Government 2030 ICT Strategy, Government Performance Management System, Government 2030 Policy Agenda, Government Strategic Reform Framework, and Public Strategy-Budget Alignment.

 

Strategic Planning & Policy Development: Develop strategic plans and policies for public and private organizations | Study and propose new corporate Vision, Mission, and Value Statement | Recommend changes to short-term, and long-term strategic plans | Recommend appropriate measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

 

Performance Management: Expert in best practices used for monitoring and evaluating government performance | Develop mechanism for key performance indicators to ensure consistency in the measurement methodology | Build Balanced Scorecards and other management tools used to track performance | Develop processes and analytical models to analyze and identify causes for variances in the performance | Expert in performance software used in market place (Advantages and disadvantages) | Analyze issues affecting the organization’s performance to ensure management’s objectives of efficiency and effectiveness are met.

 

 Manpower Planning: Prepared manpower cost-down/quality strategies to management | Conduct short and long-term manpower forecasts that enforce approved business plans | Optimize business productivity and efficiency while ensuring a balanced and valid resource level | Identify HR-related issues and recommended solutions to senior managers | Improve corporate HR processes, procedures, and policies.

 

Audit and Quality Control: Audit ISO (9001) internal related processes and issued non-compliance notices | Enforce ISO internal corrective actions and monitored counter measures implementations | Expert in Information Systems Audit (CISA certified) | Financial Audit of internal financial processes and cost centers / accounts.

 

Business Consultancy: Assist clients in writing and improving their business plans and feasibility studies | Help clients in planning and conducting surveys and market studies | Prepare statistical analysis on various industries and products.

 

Technology Experience: PeopleSoft ERP (HRMS 7.5 & 8.0) | Oracle ERP (HRMS) | Business Intelligence | Database systems analysis/ design | Webpage Design.

 

Organization Development: Designed new Organization Charts (divisions, depts., sections, and branches) | Recommend Organization Development (OD) intervention initiatives, change management/strategies, and techniques to build organizational alignment | Study the Organization’s philosophy, strategy and the effect of new technology on the structures, which govern critical processes and guide strategic policies.