Publication date : 02/26/2024

Course : Managing general services activities

the process approach

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. RAX
Price : 1740 € E.T.

Managing general services activities

the process approach



How to organize and enhance General Services activities. This course will show you how to model them using the process approach and manage them using dashboards. You will then be in a position to improve performance and initiate a continuous improvement process.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. RAX
  3d - 21h00
1740 € E.T.




How to organize and enhance General Services activities. This course will show you how to model them using the process approach and manage them using dashboards. You will then be in a position to improve performance and initiate a continuous improvement process.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Structuring corporate services activities according to the process approach
Develop internal customer/supplier relations
Identify and add value to operations
Creating a management dashboard
Assessing performance

Intended audience
General Services Manager.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of general services activities.

Practical details
Exercise
Alternating theory and practice, workshops, application exercises, collective reflection.

Course schedule

1
Understanding the process approach

  • The notion of process and its different typologies.
  • General services process mapping.
  • Develop internal customer/supplier relations.
  • Introduce the notion of continuous improvement.
Exercise
Process mapping for a typical company.

2
Modeling general services activities in processes

  • Identify process perimeters, purposes, activities and maturity levels.
  • Use functional analysis to model them.
  • Modeling tools: flow chart, flowchart, flow diagram...
  • Structuring and making processes more reliable, using FAST or SADT diagrams.
Exercise
Model the activities of a typical process.

3
Managing and steering the general services process

  • Prerogatives and responsibilities of the process manager.
  • Roles and responsibilities of process players, the RASCI matrix.
  • Draw up a function/position sheet.
  • Define a competence matrix.
  • Assessing process maturity. Process review.
Exercise
Build a representative skills matrix.

4
Draw up the dashboard for managing general services processes

  • Stakes and purpose of the measure.
  • Identify process objectives and their coherence with corporate orientations.
  • Develop indicators to measure objectives.
  • Structuring dashboards and reporting.
  • Understanding the Balanced Score Card.
Hands-on work
Define indicators. Draw up a dashboard of a typical company's general services processes.

5
Gaining in performance

  • Value-added/non-value-added mapping of process activities (VSM).
  • Determine lead times.
  • Evaluate process cycle efficiency (PCE).
  • Identify bottleneck activity and sources of waste.
Hands-on work
Diagram a VSM (Value Stream Mapping). Determine the PEDs and PCEs of a process.

6
Introduce continuous improvement

  • Detecting customer needs: Kano diagram.
  • Defining the continuous improvement approach: simple actions or breakthrough improvement?
  • Discover Kaizen and DMAIC improvement methods.
Storyboarding workshops
Sharing practices, advantages and disadvantages.


Customer reviews
3,8 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
FRANCK C.
10/12/25
5 / 5

Globalement très satisfait3 jours c un peu long mais les exercices et les échanges furent très riches
DEPARISSE KAREN B.
10/12/25
4 / 5

Plus d’ateliers pratiques et moins de théorie, plus de tableaux de bords liés à notre fonction et activité.
KARINE D.
10/12/25
3 / 5

Trop théorique pas assez de pratique



Dates and locations
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Dernières places
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REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 23 Mar., 27 May, 7 Oct.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 23 Mar., 27 May, 7 Oct.