Continuous Improvement Software
Quantify the Impact of your Continuous Improvement Program with KPI Fire
Implementing, managing, and scaling a business improvement program such as Lean Six Sigma can be difficult and high risk. If you are not able to quantify the impact of your improvement projects you may find your program budgets cut, or a lack of engagement from business managers critical to its success. KPI Fire makes it easier to generate predictable, scalable, and quantifiable benefits from your business improvement program or projects.
How does KPI Fire Benefit your Continuous Improvement Program:
Single source of truth for Improvement Projects
Capture and roll up savings & benefit reporting.
Improve Project Initiation with templates (DMAIC, PDCA, 8D, other)
Improve project selection with effort vs impact analysis
Expand your idea capture to engage more employees in your improvement culture
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In effect, management buy-in will increase as you provide clear line-of-site to strategic initiatives and show visual results in a dashboard & reports.
Keys to a successful Continuous Improvement Program:
1. Capture Ideas using an Idea Funnel
Collect Ideas for Improvement: Eliminate Waste and Variation
Don’t let a good idea get past you without collecting it.
Put yourself on the floor; because this is where the action is. Talk to people doing the work and ask them for ideas to eliminate waste and variation. We do these Gemba Walks because they are a great way to solicit and capture ideas.
KPI Fire Web App: Idea Input Form
KPI Fire Mobile App
2. Prioritize Ideas
Evaluate Ideas with Effort vs. Impact Matrices
Meet regularly with your team to review and prioritize ideas. Evaluate each idea using the effort, impact, and risk to help visualize the best projects to work on.
KPI Fire’s Idea Funnel helps you organize and select the best ideas to turn into projects. KPI Fire also keeps team members in the loop with an alert or email if they miss the meeting.
3. Standardize Your Problem Solving Approach
The best companies in the world use standardized problem solving approaches such as DMAIC, PDCA, Kaizen, 8Ds, and more. KPI Fire includes a library of these workflows that you can use out of the box, or you can create your own. Many of these workflows include forms, and templates, and can easily be adapted to work with your own company specific training materials.
4. Manage Projects
Quickly identify which projects are in need of extra help.
Improve project reviews with good Visual Management System that is simple to understand.
Finally, take action. Turn those great suggestions into DMAIC projects, KAIZEN events, or QUICK WINS. KPI Fire has built in workflows for common problem solving methods. Additionally, you can create your own. Upload tools and templates thus allowing everyone in your company to have a standard problem solving process.
KPI Fire is truly the most effective and intuitive Lean Six Sigma program management software on the market. We are trusted by many great companies with world class Lean/Six Sigma programs.
5. Track Project Benefits
Celebrate Success by Tracking Project Benefits
Lastly, track the hard and soft savings from your improvement projects. Celebrating successes engages your project team and consequently creates more success.
World Class Lean/Six Sigma programs use KPI Fire
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