Process Mapping & Redesign™
Process Mapping & Redesign™ (PMR) is a set of tools that facilitate a business unit's process improvement efforts. Through schematic depictions of a business unit's processes, a dynamic model immediately quantifies expected time and dollar savings from "what-if" scenarios – what if a process could be streamlined by 20%? What if three levels of redundancy could be collapsed to one level?
Organizations
are constantly seeking new avenues for gaining competitive advantage
– faster turnaround, higher productivity, efficient processing.
Through process re-engineering, competitive advantage can arise not
only from reduced costs, but also from increased capacity for higher
throughput.
Do you have the information needed to move forward?
Over the past two decades, process re-engineering has been a classic
means to achieve internal improvements. PMR's process mapping toolset,
unique facilitation approach, and powerful modeling capability now
bring a new intuitive and actionable methodology to business process
redesign. Through a visual representation of your business processes,
department management can easily pinpoint where improvements in process
flow or streamlining of activities can yield significant cost savings,
or even allow for additional throughput.
In addition, PMR has a modeling component to quickly and easily quantify each proposed improvement opportunity at the most detailed level. This module keeps a running total of dollar savings or additional throughput potential, as each opportunity is discussed and analyzed by management.
By viewing a business process across organizational boundaries, you can see where opportunities for improvement exist, where time is being unnecessarily spent, and where resources are being over or under used. While each manager in your organization may have ideas on how to improve processes, how do you figure out which will produce the most significant results? You need a mathematically accurate model to give you the confidence to move ahead.
Are you prepared to make process decisions?
Unlike other firms, we firmly believe that your people are the most
knowledgeable about their own operations. They only lack the diagnostic
tools and facilitation process to help them uncover and quantify process
improvement opportunities. By focusing exclusively on process measurement
services, Insight Analytics' PMR service provides you with an objective,
unbiased, and painless way to improve your processes. Simply put,
PMR makes business improvement easy.
Insight Analytics' trademarked Structured Metrics® methodology
provides the rich activity-level data needed as input for PMR.
Insight Analytics' Process Mapping & Redesign™ (PMR) service has four key components: detailed process mapping, real time scenario-based modeling, objective facilitation, and quantified findings of design improvement opportunities. The end result of a PMR engagement is a clearly documented road map to achieve cost savings or increased capacity through process improvements.
PMR begins with an assessment of your current production climate using Insight Analytics' unique Structured Metrics® methodology and results in definitive process documentation that includes both production related and administration related activities, along with their corresponding unit times, costs, and frequencies. This rich data set is overlaid on PMR's detailed process maps. The combination of visual representation and distinct metrics provides a powerful medium to better understand the role of each activity within a business process.
Make Decisions with Confidence
The next step populates the PMR model with unit costs and times to
dynamically quantify management's discussions on probable process
improvement opportunities. The final step in this process is getting
buy-in from executive management. Since these opportunities have been
clearly identified, quantified and validated by department managers
using PMR, executive management can provide approval with full confidence.
In as little as eight weeks, from start to finish, your organization
can have a clear road map that lists each individual process improvement
opportunity and how to achieve it. And there will be a reality-based
cost savings figure attached to each opportunity. A clearly marked
path to improve internal processes without the need to purchase, learn
or maintain any software.
In the event that process improvement yields little initial dollar savings, it can still help streamline cycle time and increase throughput capacity – creating higher volume output with little change in labor expense. And greater profitability for your organization.
Looking to streamline your processes but don't know where to begin?
Contact Insight Analytics to get started
now.
