Technical Productivity Assessment

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Improving Technical Productivity

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Technical Productivity Assessment

A comprehensive process is used to assess your product engineering, R&D, IT or scientific organization's productivity against best practices and our proprietary efficiency rating system. This assessment serves as a benchmark and identifies the highest impact opportunities for further improvement. The assessment is typically one to three weeks depending upon the organization's size and the complexity. Prior to conducting the assessment, we would review your organization chart and any other descriptive material you provide and discuss your technical environment by phone. Based on this, we would typically conduct four to ten days of interviews, walk-throughs, and process reviews. Up to 36 productivity dimensions are addressed:

Configuration and Change Management

Cost Management

Decision Making

Design Assurance

Design Automation and Development Tools

Design Verification and Validation Methodology

Directed Innovation

Functional Management

Knowledge Management

Leadership

Learning Culture

Management Tools

Meetings

Organizational Environment

Organizational Metrics

Performance Management

Pipeline Management

Process Efficiency

Process Management

Product Data Management

Product Portfolio Management

Project Cycle Times

Project Lifecycle Models

Project Management

Project Planning

Requirements and Specifications Development and Management

Risk Management

Resource Utilization

Simulation and Analysis

Stakeholder Communication

Stakeholder Definition of Value

Supplier/Subcontractor Integration

Teamwork

Technology Management

Time Allocation

Understanding the Customer

At the conclusion of this review, we will sit down with members of your management team to offer specific recommendations as well as debrief you using our assessment forms. Where necessary, we would explain certain management concepts to your team so that they would understand why a recommended improvement was appropriate. We can discuss priorities based on gap analysis (weak rating versus a strong importance of the dimension), dimensions that seem out of balance, and our experience. We can then help develop a preliminary action plan to close the gap and improve in areas related to the company's critical success factors. We can implement a productivity measurement system for you so that you can perform ongoing self-assessments in the future. Training in this benchmarking and assessment methodology is also available.

This feedback identifies specific opportunities to improve productivity, yielding an increase in efficiency, opportunities for cost reductions, improved product quality, and time-to-market. This assessment and the subsequent improvement efforts can pay for themselves many times over.

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