Industry discussions indicate that particularly in the post pandemic operating environment, when staff numbers and experience is limited, and investment and recruitment has been deferred for a number of years, it is difficult to make and prioritise the business decisions necessary to deal with issues currently being faced.
Additionally, within the same context of limited resources and in-house expertise, airports are having to incorporate planning for increasingly complex future challenges such as the environment, digitisation, Urban Air Mobility, the pace of change, and the inability traditional procurement models to support innovation.
Responding to the needs of the airport market, Solus has been established by two consultants with almost 80 years’ experience in the aviation sector, each with practical experience of the value of data driven insight.
Through the application of enterprise architecture to airport operations, the creation of a target operating model concept facilitates an assessment of an airport organisation, suppliers and key stakeholders across a broad range of topics including strategic planning, resource management, service delivery, compliance, quality and procurement.
Using data gathered through self-assessment surveys, interviews, and requested financial information, the outputs from our analysis include not simply a stand-alone scoring, but valuable comparisons with industry peers.
Airport Target Operating Model
The Solus proprietary Capabilities Assessment Model has already been successfully deployed at UK airports to help their Boards understand the performance of its ANSP, identify improvement areas and shape future provision strategy for the business.
Solus has experience in designing and delivering organisational transformation and change programmes and works with a range of specialists to deliver results to clients at a time their own limited resources are focused on day-to-day delivery.
The benefits of this approach include:
· Access to key industry expertise and insight to deliver solutions quicker than developing internal capability
· Identifying common issues across airports provides opportunities for smart procurement and leveraging combined purchasing power
· Rapid establishment of effective performance measures and alignment throughout the organisation
If you would like to try out our Airport Capability Assessment Survey, you can find it here.
