A PowerPoint used for Intouch Business' talk at the 2013 Continuous Improvement Public Service Event.
This presentation covers the history and ideas behind their product Servizio and the benefits it can offer to those who choose to use it.
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Continuous Improvement
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Gareth Webb Senior Partner
Phil Selley Senior Partner
Re-energising your CI programme
Success in process improvement with
technology
But don’t let the tail wag the dog!
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Success in process improvement
with technology
• Improvement experiences
• Approach
• Examples
• Discussion
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Improvement Experiences
People
• People – “what’s in it for me?”
• Frustrations from poor process, data, rework
• Learning
• Accountability
• Operations – the poor relation
• Not invented here
• Technical change is emotional!
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Improvement Experiences
Process
• Poor process
• “We’ve always done it this way”
• Repetition & rework
• Unable to share information
• Key person dependence
• Unsecured workflows & authorisations
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Improvement Experiences
Technology & Data
• Spreadsheet jungle, data islands & stove-pipes
• Duplicated data
• Big system inertia & cost
• Keep it simple to use, quick wins
• Platform for continuous improvement
• Access anywhere
• Needs to pay for itself
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Intouch approach…
• Clear project objectives / outcomes
• Understand & engage the business
• Manage the risk
• Connect with specialist systems
• Light-touch cloud systems - Servizio
• Incremental deployment
• Commercially cost-effective and simple
• Great support & continual improvement
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Intouch solution - Servizio
• Web-based framework
• Reusable components to support bespoke process
• Quick wins, minimise impact
• Standard Microsoft components
• On-going upgrades, new apps
• Minimise complexity & emotional change
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Support Services
On shift manager
Virtual teams on shift
Swaps
Giveaways
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Servizio – Case Study 1
Government Department
• Time for rota production reduced from 3 weeks
to 3 hours
• Reduced support team for doubling staff
• Absence requests turned around same day
• Swaps undertaken directly by staff
• Balance of hours maintained
• Premium payments calculated real-time
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Servizio – Case Study 2
Sightsavers
• Use the Proactis e-procurement system
• Needed a e-portal front end for worldwide access
• Provides planning and standard purchasing (country
dependent) feeds into budget and planning system
• Purchases through approved suppliers at agreed
prices
• Expanded for the IAPB to facilitate 115 worldwide
eye-care charities
Servizio – Case Study 2
Sightsavers
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Servizio – Case Study 2
Sightsavers
• Use the Proactis e-procurement system
• Needed a e-portal front end for worldwide access
• Provides planning and standard purchasing (country
dependent) feeds into budget and planning system
• Purchases through approved suppliers at agreed
prices
• Expanded for the IAPB to facilitate 115 worldwide
eye-care charities
• Standardised data, workflow & approvals
• Reduced planning cycle time, costs & errors
• Joined up approach
• Procurement costs reduced
• Transparency of performance
• Monitoring of key indicators
• Audit clarity & security
• Enabled high value project funding to be won
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Servizio – Case Study 3
Hyde Sails
• Reduced overheads
• Visibility of sales performance & reporting
• Increased revenue & exports
• All year round factory utilisation
• Increased Distributors from 3 to100+
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Summary
• Continuous improvement is a long road
• Our experiences led us to use Intouch &
Servizio successfully for our customers
• Make sure your solution is agile enough & has
the legs for the long road
WelcomeIntro peopleIntro company – help achieve process improvement through our services and information framework – ServizioThe real surprise is that we have remained friends despite supporting opposing Manchester teamsPhil & I go back to 1979 when we met at Plymouth Polytechnic
We are going to start with slightly personal journey. Phil and I have been invovled in large scale process and business change since beginning of the 90sShare our lessoned learnedWe certainly believe our own publicity such that we created Intouch and a new way delivering information management systems with ServizioI have 3 examples to briefly show you Hopefully this will stimulate a useful discussion
Phil worked as a Fleet Operations Manager in maritime Oil & gas exploration and changing the process and technology data capture ad analysis process from being a 3 month on-shore process to incorporating GPS minturisation and real-time data analysis on the new generation of ships with super-computing collecting terabytes of data per hour from 8 x streamers 12km long.Knowledge management – took the benefits and rolled out overnight to 30,000Saved $50m in 1st year
Post the first Gulf War Improved the planning processes central contingency and operations ReadinessCollective TrainingEquipmentLogistics chainProcurementLondon Fire servicePolicePFI – bank rep Technical Due DilgenceDLR - upgrade Locked the Queen
People can be selfish and may understandably have different objectives to OrganisationRepetitive data entrySwivel chair interfaceBut people do want to learnPeople want to fell accountable ( or others to be)Operations manager last to get tools ( after Finance, HR)Not invented here
Processes that have not been thought out or are created around an individualInformation in spreadsheets are generally not sharedPaper chain & spreadsheet Workflows and authorisations are easily bypassed
Spreadsheet jungle, data islands & stove-pipesDuplicated dataBig system inertia & cost Keep it simple to use, quick winsPlatform for continuous improvementAccess anywhereNeeds to pay for itself
Product – pile it high with generic functionality vs bespoke. 80-20 rule and employ re-usability components Usually have a bespoke module to write and if its tricky or complex then we are extremely comfortable with thatAdd a person - Not seat driven, named person, linked in to ADControls - learn once use many times – Lord Bichard – hopefully little or no training Only show the data and controls you absolutely need
I’d like to talk about a few case studies but we havent got time to talk some of worked with colleges e-marketing, trade organisations as WNA where for over 6 yrs supported worldwide events, Resource management tool for 2500. Due to sensitivities associated with the degree of change they asked not to keep this case study genericHome workers – out of hours working in Virtual teams
Rota Management System for night workers with complex working arrangements and changing shifts and complimentscomplex working arrangements based on the ability to opt out of working particular days, periods, but still covering Intelligent shift filteringExpanded to cover 24 / 7Accommodates daytime WTD opt in / outManages all forms of absence, premium paymentsSwaps
Time for rota production reduced from 3 weeks to 3 hoursReduced support team for doubling staffAbsence requests turned around same daySwaps undertaken directly by staffBalance of hours maintainedPremium payments calculated real-time
We are very proud of our working relationship with an organisation doing such good works helping to transform their operations and back-office with 5 projects over the last 5 years. Sightsavers are one of the leading charities for process and technical change. You may remember them from Red Nose Day where celebrities walked across the desert.
Already implemented a major Procurement system in the back office which was an improvement over plethora of spreadsheets usedBut not cost effective to licence rollout to all users in over 20 companies. Needed some sort of front end portal to allow teams in the field to purchase medical items. Phase 1 Amazon.com type basket, phase 2 integration into procurement. Phse 3 Planning, tracking recipt of goodsEnsures Purchases through approved suppliers at agreed pricesExpanded for the IAPB to facilitate 115 worldwide eye-care charities Fund Management system.Allows fund raisers to generate income plansAllows country mangers to create project expendiure plansFunds are managed and allocated to projectsMonitors spend on several hundred projectsBalanced Score card. Having the Score card and the procurement system were
2008 – transformed their business3rd largest sail maker in the world
Business model changed from selling to a hub and DistributorCentralised manufacturing, call centreDistributors convert leads to quotations to orders add products and manufacturing informationOrder specifications used on the shop floorOrders despatched direct