Operational Excellence StartPoint Solution

1. StartPoint Solution Briefing
Operational Excellence
Accelerate benefit delivery
with i-nexus.
Solution overview Intended audience
Almost all large organizations are actively implementing Operational
Any executive responsible for managing the
Excellence programs - many with the primary goal of driving bottom
deployment of an Operational Excellence initiative in a
line improvement. Not all organizations are, however, seeing the private or public sector organization.
same return from their investments in process and product
• VP, Operational Excellence
improvement.
• Lean Six Sigma Leader
Designed specifically to accelerate benefit delivery from • Process Excellence Leader
implementation of improvement methodologies, i-nexus offers a • Director of Continuous Improvement
proven ‘out-of-the-box’ solution for managing the deployment of • Director of Quality
Operational Excellence programs that is used daily by many • Head of Business Improvement
thousands of improvement practitioners in industry leaders such as • Head of Process Excellence
Pfizer, Alstom, Nestle and Thomson Reuters.
• Business Excellence Manager
Key challenges faced by leaders of Proven ROI acceleration tactics
Operational Excellence programs i-nexus has, through working with the
Our experience suggests, Operational Excellence deployers face at Operational Excellence Deployment Leaders in over
least six common deployment challenges: 100 global organizations, developed a set of proven
tactics that specifically address the top six deployment
1. Executive buy-in. Driving greater levels of management challenges. These proven tactics, which are fully
commitment to Operational Excellence. embedded within the i-nexus Operational
Excellence solution, have enabled leading
2. Alignment with business priorities. Ensuring as much organizations to achieve returns exceeding 10:1 on
improvement activity as possible is aligned with strategic and their investment in operational improvement.
operational objectives.
3. Translating training into results. Ensuring that training
interventions are successfully translated into completed
improvement projects.
4. Sustaining gains. Ensuring that once achieved, performance
improvements are sustained.
5. Driving replication. Ensuring improvement solutions and best
practices are being replicated throughout the organization.
6. Demonstrating returns. Demonstrating that the organization
is multiplying the value of every dollar invested in improvement
by an order of magnitude.

2. i-nexus Operational Excellence solution i-nexus meets needs of all
The i-nexus Operational Excellence solution provides a set of
‘out-of-the-box’ capabilities and best practice templates that are
stakeholders
designed to make it easy to set-up and manage a major performance
improvement program.
These capabilities include:
• Project Opportunity Management. i-nexus makes it easy to
capture, align, evaluate and prioritise project ideas.
• Customisable Project Templates. i-nexus makes it easy to
standardize project methodologies and tools and to simplify
project planning using these standard templates.
• Project Management and Collaboration. i-nexus makes it
Cascading goals and reviewing performance
easy to plan, follow-up and review projects, including capture and
management of project documentation.
• Project Financial Benefit Tracking. i-nexus makes it easy to
forecast potential, and track actual, project benefits.
• Automated Project and Portfolio Status Reporting. From
automated generation of project storyboards to automatic
notification of off-track projects and automated senior executive
reporting, i-nexus makes it easy to stay on top of your program.
• Project KPI Management. A particular strength of i-nexus is its
ability to ensure that project gains tracked and sustained through
on-going process control.
• Training and Certification Management. i-nexus makes it “With 2000 improvement projects of various
easy to manage training course and automate the certification sizes running across ALSTOM worldwide, we
process. needed a tool which would be flexible enough
to support multiple methodologies, scaleable
Dramatic client results enough to support many thousands of users
Organizations adopting the i-nexus Operational Excellence solution are
and capable enough to meet our needs for
frequently astounded at how easy it is to deploy and use. Even with a single project portfolio and performance
major on-going programs, the rapid implementation approach offered management system. Since deployment,
by i-nexus means that clients are typically up and running in less than i-nexus has helped us drive significant
10 days. additional benefits from our Lean Six Sigma
program”
As well as dramatically reducing the non-value added effort involved
in managing their Operational Excellence programs, i-nexus has Andreas Beckman, Director, Performance
helped a number of i-nexus clients to multiply ROI by cutting project Management
cycle times by as much as 40%, increasing project success rates
by close to 25% and increasing the net benefits per project by over
150%.
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