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Business Process Effectiveness Surveys
Assessing Process Performance
Quantisoft's business process effectiveness surveys assess the performance of processes and provide actionable information and insight for streamlining and improving processes. Surveys gather process experience feedback and suggestions from employees and/or customers using the business processes. This survey information provides insight and suggestions that are not available from typical internal process measurements such as volumes, costs, errors, timeliness data, etc.
Our business process effectiveness surveys identify breakthrough improvement opportunities in productivity, quality, customer service, process timeliness and cost reduction.
Business Process Effectiveness Survey Metrics
Process effectiveness survey metrics include the following and other process criteria, depending on the scope of the survey being conducted:
Process performance standards and measurements
- Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) 404 standards
- Process quality
- Process timeliness
- Customer service
- Problem and complaint management
- Customer satisfaction
- Process volume variation
- Process productivity
- Process performance measurement
- Process documentation (availability, current, accurate, effective, accessible)
- Process performance standards
- Communication of performance standards and measurements with employees
- Employee performance measurement
- WIP inventory and parts/materials availability (manufacturing processes)
- Policies impacting processes
- Process ownership (defined and executed)
- Process variation
- Process volumes and trends
- Process waiting times
- Process bottlenecks
- Process risks
- Process and IT change management
- Approach to process change implementation
- Outsourced supplier performance
Technology and information effectiveness
- Technology availability
- Technology effectiveness/ease of use (for employees and customers)
- Information availability, adequacy, ease of access, security
Employee process issues
- Employee knowledge of processes
- Job descriptions / skill set requirements
- Training adequacy and development
- Standards and expectations for performance
- Performance measurement and reviews
- Compensation, benefits, compensation approaches (e.g. base salary vs. incentive comp.)
- Employee morale
- Process and workplace safety
Facility layout design concepts
- Workplace design/layout
- Design for efficient flow of customers (in customer facilities)
- Ergonomics (lighting, temperature, workstation design, furniture, stress, noise)
Benefits of Quantisoft's Business Process Effectiveness Surveys
Quantisoft's business process effectiveness surveys provide the information and insight to achieve a strong payback:
- Best practice processes enhance customers' experience with your company...they will tell other people and remain loyal customers
- Identify opportunities for process improvements from employees and/or customers
- Identify and fix recurring process problems impacting customers, productivity, quality, timeliness, employee knowledge, customer service and costs
- Reduce the number of customer problems and complaints
- Improve communications within your organization and with customers
- Increase employee morale by making their jobs easier and more productive, providing them with processes, information, training and tools they need to be more productive
- Use business process effectiveness survey results to prioritize performance improvement initiatives and projects
- Business process effectiveness surveys provide critical data for Balanced Scorecard measurement programs.
- Decrease the People Performance Gap©, the gap in performance between the most and least effective employees performing the same job (using the same processes).
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