Solution Overview

Designed specifically to accelerate benefit delivery from implementation of improvement methodologies, i-nexus offers a proven ‘out-of-the-box' program management software 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, Nestlé and Thomson Reuters.

Key Challenges

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

• Executive buy-in. Driving greater levels of management commitment to Operational Excellence.
• Alignment with business priorities. Ensuring as much improvement activity as possible is aligned with strategic and operational objectives.
• Translating training into results. Ensuring that training interventions are successfully translated into completed improvement projects.
• Sustaining gains. Ensuring that once achieved, performance improvements are sustained.
• Driving replication. Ensuring improvement solutions and best practices are being replicated throughout the organization.
• Demonstrating returns. Demonstrating that the organization is multiplying the value of every dollar invested in improvement by an order of magnitude.

 
i-nexus Solution

The i-nexus Operational Excellence solution provides a set of ‘out-of-the-box' capabilities and best practice templates, including lean six sigma tools that are designed to make it easy to set-up and manage a major performance improvement program. The capabilities of this performance improvement software include:

• Project Opportunity Management. i-nexus makes it easy to capture, align, evaluate and prioritize project ideas.
• Customizable Project Templates. i-nexus makes it easy to standardize project methodologies and lean six sigma 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. The i-nexus six sigma project tracking capabilities make 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, the i-nexus program management software 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 course and automate the certification process. 

Operational Excellence StartPoint 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%.

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