Benchmarking Improvement

Before embarking on any improvement journey, it’s essential to take stock of

• Strengths and Weaknesses: Identify what’s already working well and areas where improvements will have the greatest impact.

• Good Practices: Build on existing processes rather than reinventing the wheel.

• Performance Management: To understand the causal links between Total Manufacturing Costs and performance drivers for People, Processes and Procedures to surface and prioritise opportunities for improvement.

• Barriers to progress: How to overcome the current barriers to improvement.

• Business Drivers, Priorities and Next Steps: Evaluate options for next steps and plan the plan working sessions to raise awareness and agree cross functional next steps.

This diagnostic phase serves as the foundation for crafting an improvement roadmap tailored to your organisation’s unique challenges and opportunities.

Let us use our diagnostic process to benchmark and refine your current improvement process based on the improvement journeys of over 300 organisations.

The Power of Pilot Projects

Rather than trying to overhaul the entire organisation at once, start with a focused pilot project in a specific problem area.

• Why Pilots Work: They deliver quick wins while exposing deeper, systemic issues that hinder improvement.

• Learning by Doing: Cross-functional teams gain hands-on experience tackling real problems, which helps them to share ideas, learn from each other and align priorities within the improvement process.

• From Quick Fixes to Sustainable Change: Pilot projects can focus not only on solving problems but also on identifying and removing the barriers that prevent long-term solutions.

Find out how our training, facilitation and coaching support can help your organisation to replicate the success of industry leading organisations.