The S A Partners Enterprise Excellence Assessment provides a deep insight into your organisation to give you an understanding of where you need to focus your improvement activities. Undertaken using interviews; onsite evaluation and data analysis the output of the assessment will provide you with a foundation on which to build your development plan.
The Enterprise Excellence Assessment provides insights on the current maturity of your organisation by benchmarking against recognised Enterprise Excellence principles and practices. We use the assessment insights to develop and execute an implementation programme to deliver sustainable customer results for your organisation.
Our assessments look into key enterprise excellence systems that businesses should strive to be mature in to become a world-class organisation, and/or achieve the much-coveted Shingo Prize of Operational Excellence. The systems assessed are part of the 3 proportionate section of the Enterprise Excellence Model:
PURPOSE – Assessing and improving the essential strategic systems required to be deployed across the business.
PROCESS – Assessing and improving ‘your’ core and enabling processes required to operate effectively.
PEOPLE – Assessing and improving the impact of behaviour and dialogue required to create an improvement culture.
The other intersections and centre circle of the Enterprise Excellence model is what we use as criteria to assess the maturity of each system:
ALIGN – Assessing if objectives and standards exist are fully aligned to strategic needs and are adhered-to with discipline at every level.
ENGAGE – Assessing if all relative stakeholders fully understand why “we need to do this”, what their roles are, and are people fully supported and coached.
RESULTS – Assessing if there is a comprehensive set of system goals in place with expectations frequently exceeded and goals stretched by the teams.
IMPROVE – Assessing if the system is systematically reviewed at business and team level for effectiveness with governance plans owned and completed.
The Enterprise Excellence model has been continuously developing over a number of years and has both academic rigour and results-based proven practice from a variety of business sectors. The assessment conducted by a licenced facilitator is aligned to The Shingo Model of Enterprise Excellence and can act as a benchmark if the business is looking to pursue a Shingo Award in the future.
Collaborative Enterprise Excellence alignment and planning session to ensure there is understanding of what Enterprise Excellence is and how it aligns with the business strategy.
Conduct the assessment and analysis to produce summary findings report to gain an insightful, in-depth understanding of the current strengths and weaknesses of the business.
Work together to review findings and develop a roadmap aligned to strategy to convert the assessment findings into key insights, aligning the findings with the business strategy, and select key themes for the improvement roadmap.
Agree shared programme management process to execute the roadmap to provide clarity of goals and milestones with agreed owners, and a joint approach to track and manage the activities.
Over the past 10 years, S A Partners have successfully co-managed over 200 roadmaps, and those roadmaps have covered over 20 sectors, for SMEs, and large organisations across the globe. Our clients benefit from conducting an S A Partners Enterprise Excellence Assessment from; measurable improvements in a range of key business processes, standard systems designed and deployed, proven leadership and team capability developed.
Our Enterprise Excellence Assessment provides insights on the current maturity of an organisation by benchmarking against recognised Enterprise Excellence principles and practices. You can use the assessment insights to develop and execute an implementation programme to deliver sustainable customer results.
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