Are you still managing your Continuous Improvement Program projects with excel spreadsheets and shared drives?  

If you don’t have a single source of truth for all of your Continuous Improvement projects, you should be working toward that goal. According to Interact Source, 19.8 % of business time – the equivalent of one day per working week – is wasted by employees searching for information to do their job effectively.

According to Interact Source, 19.8 % of business time – the equivalent of one day per working week – is wasted by employees searching for information to do their job effectively. IDC data shows that “the knowledge worker spends about 2.5 hours per day, or roughly 30% of the workday, searching for information.

Benefits of having a centralized system:

  • Faster answers to questions about program health & progress.
  • Better visibility for CI efforts
  • More engaged Team with CI program.
  • Better visibility for CI efforts
  • CI Managers can spend more time growing the program and less time generating reports and chasing updates.
  • Improved opportunity for coaching by off site experts.  Spread your organization knowledge more quickly.

Important Views to have in your Centralized System:

1- Summary Charts display the number of projects by Status, Health, and Schedule.

This report answers the question: How many CI projects are open right now in the West Region?

2- The List view:

Answers the question:  Which projects is Chuck working on and are they on track?
From this report I can also see that “Chuck” has not provided a status report on the Changeover project this week”.

3- Savings View

Quickly see the impact of all of your projects. Filter or sort by Department, Year, Category, User, and more.

Track Project Benefits

4- Idea / Effort Matrix & # of Project Ideas

With a single database for your Improvement Projects you can visualize data with the Impact vs Effort matrix and the bar chart showing Ideas created by month.

5- Pivot Style Reports:

About KPI Fire

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