A Quick Guide to Strategic Planning Success for Operations Management

Ken Koenemann | July 13, 2016 | 

• Strategy Deployment

Where does your annual operating plan end and business plan deployment begin? For many organizations, this is a difficult question to answer. Most are well aware of the importance of a strategic vision focused on improving profitability or competitiveness a few years down the road. Yet the majority are far better at meeting annual plan…

3 Best Practices for Harnessing Big Data Analytics in Manufacturing

Ken Koenemann | June 21, 2016 | 

• Analytics

Quick, define big data and give a few examples for how it can be used to improve manufacturing operations. If you’re struggling with the answers, you’re far from alone. For example, the detailed Wikipedia entry on big data says that “big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that…

Dploy Strategy Deployment

December 4, 2015 | 

• Strategy Deployment

Strategy Deployment provides the framework and structure to enable policy deployment at your organization across multiple sites and cross-functional teams.

Case Study: Plan for Success Through Policy Deployment

December 4, 2015 | 

• Strategy Deployment

In the fall, when you close out the books for the fiscal year, does your management team breathe a sigh of relief? Do you see this closure as a time to relax, or do you start looking forward to the coming year? Does your team plan for success or just hope that the markets favor…

Dploy Project Management

October 28, 2015 | 

• Project Management

Formerly Dploy Alignment, Dploy Project Management allows you to track and manage your improvement projects and link them to your KPIs and strategic initiatives. You can assign team members, create goals, and assign action items for achieving those goals. Then create reports to see how you’re doing at achieving—and sustaining—your planned performance.

Our Customers’ Point of View

October 26, 2015 | 

• Strategy Deployment