i-nexus webinar highlights opportunities for performance improvement and growth

Webinar Date: 22nd July 2010
Time: 11am-12pm EDT.  4pm-5pm GMT

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High-performance organizations are capable of recognizing, segmenting and prioritizing areas that require improvement and that may be misaligned with market conditions or corporate strategy. Many times however, even in the best performing organizations, projects are undertaken that treat the symptoms and not the underlying systemic issues that caused the condition in the first place.

Perlinski & Company’s ‘Business Operations Assessment’ (BOA) has evolved over 20 years to provide visibility to the resolution of the issues that nobody wants to talk about! In addition to this, the BOA provides an organized framework for addressing the changes that are required for long-lasting improvement to operational and financial processes and controls.

Join business execution experts i-nexus, alongside Steve Perlinski and Steve Swann from Perlinski & Company, on this informative webinar as they explain the BOA framework and methodology.  You will be presented with real-life case studies that can give insights into tackling similar issues in your own organization.

Attendees will learn:
• A practical and flexible approach to enhancing the organization’s performance
• Key Success Factors in applying this methodology and achieving substantial returns
• That it is not an ‘all or nothing’ proposition
• All about balancing risks and returns
• How to avoid spending money on ‘band-aid’ projects

i-nexus is pleased to partner with Perlinski & Company to provide an industry leading software solution for all Business Execution requirements.

About the presenters
Steve Perlinski is COO and co-founder of Perlinski & Company. Steve’s 30 years’ experience includes effectively founding, operating, integrating, focusing and developing businesses. His expertise in human factors and enabling technologies supports a deep understanding of what is possible in lean corporate operations as well as how to realize aggressive corporate growth. He has worked extensively throughout North America, Europe and in Asia.

Steve Swann has over 33 years’ Executive and Technical leadership experience in Technology Business Operations and Project & Portfolio Management. He is currently the CEO and Executive Producer at the American Heritage Network and a Partner at Perlinski & Company.

About Perlinski & Company: 
Perlinski & Company’s approach is to apply a rigorous perspective on the key planning and execution processes that Management leverages to achieve productivity, innovation and margin growth.  It is fact-based, hypothesis-driven, industry comparator relevant, and one that looks not only at the Specialty division, but at the enterprise level as well.  They leverage their financial analysis experience to generate improvement hypotheses for their operational experience to more fully refine with management. 

One of their longest standing and most effective methodologies is their Business Operations Assessment. Quite simply put, it provides the capability to quickly identify where an organization is failing or will fail to achieve its strategic plan. It also breaks down and categorizes execution gaps and recommends a prioritized list of tactical remedial steps organized by risk, cost, timeline and interdependency.

 i-nexus's webinar: How to make Hoshin Planning work for you.

Are you looking for ways to overcome the practical obstacles that stop your organization from realizing the true benefits of Hoshin Planning?  Paul Docherty, CEO of i-neuxs recently hosted a webinar in which he talked about Hoshin Planning and identified how to make the most of this game-changing approach.

The concept of Hoshin Planning (alternatively known as policy deployment or goal deployment) is extremely attractive.  In theory, it has the power to dramatically increase the probability of executing your business plan by aligning every employee in pursuit of business goals. In practice, however, few organizations are able to realize this potential and most that try to implement the concept find it quickly degenerates into a form of spreadsheet madness.

If this sounds familiar to your organization, then click on the link below to watch our webinar where Paul – a leading expert in the emerging discipline of business execution – outlined why the vast majority of organizations that implement Hoshin Planning fail to make it work. Find out how you can make sure that your organization is one of the few that sees the step change in results that better execution can deliver.  

Click here to watch the webinar. 

Did you miss our latest Balanced Scorecard webinar?

Neil Sutcliffe, Chairman of i-nexus discussed how organizations are transforming their Balanced Scorecards from a basic reporting tool into a Business Execution System.

Conservative estimates suggest more than 10,000 organizations of all sizes have adopted the Balanced Scorecard as the basis of their performance management system. Whilst the vast majority of these organizations are using the Balanced Scorecard effectively as a reporting system, research suggests that less than 20% believe it is helping them to actually drive execution of their strategy.

Neil Sutcliffe shared the best practices from leading organizations who have literally transformed their Balanced Scorecard into a comprehensive execution system that is creating alignment, driving action and delivering results.

Drawing on real case studies and the experience of over 40 leading companies, Neil outlined how organizations have successfully integrated the Balanced Scorecard, Goal Deployment, Lean Six Sigma and Process Management to build a Business Execution System.

Click here to view webinar.

From 3:1 to 30:1

How the best companies are driving extraordinary returns from their investment in Lean Six Sigma

i-nexus, a leading software vendor, invites you to join Paul Docherty, renowned Business Execution expert, as he shares best practices that could help your organization achieve extradordinary returns on your investment and the pitfalls to avoid along the way.

The results are in. i-nexus’s 12 month study of the Lean Six Sigma deployments of over 100 leading organizations has identified a specific set of uncommon best practices that are enabling the upper quartile performers to drive an ROI of 30:1+ on their Lean Six Sigma investment. Universally applicable in public as well as private sector organizations, these best practices challenge conventional wisdom about how to deploy Lean Six Sigma – and can be applied right from the start of your deployment.

If you missed our webinar on 6th May, click on the link below and join Paul Docherty as he shares his advice on best practice in Operational Excellence and how you can achieve an ROI of 30:1 on your Lean Six Sigma investment.

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i-nexus.com shares best practice in strategy execution

i-nexus, an innovative, market leading software provider, are pleased to announce the launch of their new website, i-nexus.com, where you can gain free access to a wide range of documents to help you better execute your strategy. i-nexus provides on-demand Business Execution software that enables global organizations to deliver more consistently on their promises.

55% of CEO’s who responded to a recent conference board Global 5,000 CEO survey ranked ‘ability to execute’ as their number one business priority. In fact, as for previous years the top three concerns expressed by survey participants related directly to execution.

i-nexus recognize the challenges global company leaders face in executing their strategies and have developed a range of solutions to aid them in the process.

i-nexus’s CEO; Paul Docherty, a renowned Business Execution guru and co-founder of the company has spearheaded the company’s rapid expansion into the preferred global deployment partner for lean six sigma and strategy execution programs. Visit i-nexus.com to lean about his views and best practice guidance on driving business execution.

Speaking about the new website Paul says, “Our new i-nexus website provides a wealth of information to help organizations to improve execution disciplines. In addition to accessing a range of white papers, webinars, and other best practice resources, visitors to the website are also able to view demos of the latest release of i-nexus’s ground breaking Business Execution Platform.”

i-nexus’s solutions are based on the belief that improving business execution capabilities requires an evolutionary, not revolutionary approach. No business can afford to metaphorically ‘ground the plane’ to rebuild it. They need to be able to refit it while it’s still flying. Accordingly, i-nexus have developed a range of ‘out-of-the-box’  ‘fast start’ solutions that enables organizations to quickly establish  execution disciplines by building on their existing business initiatives.

Contact us to learn more about how you can use i-nexus to:

• Transform your balanced scorecard from a measurement  to an improvement system.
• Accelerate benefits from your deployment of lean six sigma.
• Drive more predictable execution of capital investment projects.

Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (Cyta) expands its usage of i-nexus.

Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta), the leading provider of fixed line telecommunications, mobile telecommunications and Internet access in Cyprus, adopted i-nexus in 2007 to enable the company to track and ensure delivery of improvements under the model of EFQM, a foundation which seeks to support organizations and their senior leaders in their need to implement strategies and operational excellence.

Following that success, the Board of Cyta has now mandated that i-nexus will be used to track the performance of its strategic objectives using the Balanced Scorecard approach, and i-nexus will be the one tool to track the performance and status of all project activity within Cyta.

i-nexus was introduced to Cyta by its Business Planning Department, which is the business unit responsible for the company`s strategy and finance planning. “i-nexus was purchased by Cyta to support a more effective deployment of its strategy. Now we are very pleased to hear that the Cyta uses i-nexus company-wide for all its scorecards and improvement activity”, commented Paul Docherty, CEO of i-nexus.

i-nexus web based software gives Cyta the visibility of its performance gaps, gives clear ownership of KPIs and improvement activity, and allows them to track activities as they move the performance dials. The software helped the company to define clearer targets and to provide strategic reports to its directors, with visibility of all projects where intervention is required. i-nexus also allows Cyta to automate the capturing of KPI data, due to its ability to import the data from different systems. In addition, i-nexus software is the tool used by the Senior Management team to report performance at Board meetings. Mr. Photios Savvides, CEO of Cyta explained: “We have a commitment to service and quality, and by using i-nexus, we are using the latest innovative technology to ensure that we deliver on those promises.”

About Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta):

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) is a semi-governmental organization and the leading provider of integrated electronic communications in Cyprus.

i-nexus sponsors the European Six Sigma Club (ESSC) 2010.

Event

The European Six Sigma Club (ESSC) 2010 took place from 4 to 5 March 2010, in Sindelfingen, Germany, and brought together Six Sigma experts to discuss methodologies and the latest standards for the use of Six Sigma.

One of i-nexus customers, Heribert Braun, Master Black Belt, from Generali Deutschland Holding AG, has talked about the creation of the Lean Six sigma program AGIL. i-nexus welcomed all participants to its stand at the conference, where the company explained how i-nexus V10 can support large organizations to more efficiently track Lean Six Sigma programs. And to abandon their spreadsheets!