How many decisions do
you have to make every day without any actual data to support it? RWD’s
comprehensive organizational assessment, the RWD Deep Dive, will help you
identify the actual issues impacting your ability to achieve your business
goals, and highlight those initiatives that should be spread throughout the
organization. Based on the principles of Lean, this process gives the
organization an opportunity to understand how individual areas or
processes are impacting the system as a whole, thus eliminating the wasted
efforts and resources that often occur due to sub-optimization.
More than an
assessment, it is an early engagement tool to begin training your staff so that
they can identify potential issues, as well as validate leadership and
supervisory methods for potential strengths and weaknesses. The Deep Dive also
determines actual cost savings and timeframe to implement the initiatives to
allow for prioritization of initiatives and resources based on fact, rather
than feeling or intuition. This ensures that you are allocating resources to
the areas of most importance to resolve issues and implement permanent
solutions.
Through a proven and rigorous
process, we will assess your current state and compare it to an ideal Lean
operating condition. From this assessment, we will identify gaps and outline
specific opportunities to enhance and improve your performance improvement
methodology. This assessment will be the foundation for developing a detailed
plan for continuous improvement that includes strategic improvements focused on
those areas of greatest need.
RWD’s organizational assessment is
designed to ensure a thorough understanding your organization’s present
condition, and the impacts a Lean transformation will have. This assessment
will evaluate the following areas:
- Strategic Planning /Leadership
Vision
- Information Management
- Organizational Structure
- Governance
- Employee Engagement and Development
- Scheduling
- Business Systems Review
- Climate/Culture
- Material/Manpower/Information Flow
Recognizing that many organizations
may have already taken steps to get started with transforming their
organizations, RWD’s assessment offerings can take a variety of forms:
- Enterprise-wide
- Facility-wide
- Product Line or Business Process
- RPA - Rapid Plant Assessment