Solution overview

Designed specifically to accelerate benefit delivery from implementation of improvement methodologies, i-nexus offers a proven ‘out-of-the-box' solution for managing the deployment of Operational Excellence programs that is used daily by many thousands of improvement practitioners in industry leaders such as Pfizer, Alstom, Nestle and Thomson Reuters.

Key Challenges

Our experience suggests, Operational Excellence Deployment Leaders face at least six common deployment challenges:

1. Executive buy-in. Driving greater levels of management commitment to Operational Excellence.
2. Alignment with business priorities. Ensuring as much improvement activity as possible is aligned with strategic and 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.

i-nexus Operational Excellence Solution

The i-nexus Operational Excellence solution offers a rich set of capabilities designed to address the key challenges faced by all deployment leaders. 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 standardise project methodologies and tools and to simplify project planning using these standard templates.
• Project Management and Collaboration. i-nexus makes it 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 easy to manage training courses and automate the certification process.

Solution Benefits

As well as dramatically reducing the non-value added effort involved in managing their Operational Excellence programs, i-nexus has helped a number of i-nexus clients to multiply ROI by cutting project 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%.