Process Improvement Activity

Process Improvement Activity

Background Information

Process improvement activity in the organization seeks to implement a methodology for strategic improvement of their key business processes, making them more efficient, effective, flexible and able to adapt to an environment of continual change. How? Making the deployment of processes, consistent with defined strategies, defining controls, establishing metrics, detecting weaknesses and implementing solutions that promote continuous improvement in achieving the objectives of the company.

The problem or opportunity

Process improvement is an opportunity that includes a number of benefits for the project as well the business organization. The opportunity helps the project to:

Ensure that business processes are consistent with the strategic direction of the company.

Really focus on processes relevant to business success.

Provide a cross section of the organization, complementary to the usual vertical view of the charts. Ensures that referred the expectations and requirements of customers.

Determine the most efficient and effective use of resources.

Improve service delivery.

Ensure that changes are accepted and implemented as intended.

Ensure the standardization of operations.

Provide greater impetus to the implementation of the necessary changes.

Facilitate early identification of risk in meeting objectives, through the systematic monitoring of process performance and understanding of the degree of contribution of each to achieve the objectives

Impact or effects of the activity

A decision to use the process improvement helps the project reduce costs, streamline processes and operations. We agree with the strategy of private equity fund, because despite being more aggressive, we consider it more efficient; we weighed that not all businesses have the same deficiencies in the same areas, and do not cost the same. We agree that the best ideas are given from the operating levels, as they are in direct contact with the project, consider the "Management does not know what happens" as the heaviest problem that causes processes ...