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Improving with templates

Unique Businesses - Similar Improvements

Although every company is unique, most business processes are highly similar. Consequently, business process improvements are also similar. To capitalize on these similarities, The Lab has compiled the worlds's largest repository of templates for business process improvement.

Internal teams implementing Six Sigma or total quality can use
The Lab's reengineering resource center to avoid reinventing the wheel and capitalize on the learning curve for improvement.

  

Advantages include:
  • More improvements (4–10X)
  • Higher payback (2–5X)
  • Shorter time frames (<6mos)
  • Predictable results (100%)

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The Lab's Six Categories of Business Reengineering Templates

The Lab defines templates broadly starting with business process or workflow survey maps, and continuing through process change implementation work plans.

Business Process Map Templates - The Lab maintains business process definitions for more than 200 standard, organization-based processes and over 1,000 industry-specific processes.
(Workflow surveys, value stream maps)

  • Business process inventory schedules
  • Business process definition standards
  • Steps for workflow analysis
  • Business process workflow examples
  • Process improvement profit estimates
Process Change Improvement Opportunities - The Lab documents and catalogs thousands of commonly recurring, activity-level improvements.

Best Practices Library - Use The Lab's Best Practices to evaluate your operational capabilities. Go "out-of-industry" for valuable, leading edge practices.

Process Benchmarking Tools / Operating Metrics - The Lab has over 4,000 quantitative measures (metrics) covering processes, operations and organizations.

Capacity Model / Forecasting Tools - Quantitatively redesign processes and job positions, forecast resource needs, and track operational productivity.

Implementation Work Plans - The Lab's standard work plan "shells" outline implementation tasks, time frames, and milestones. Plans are tailored to individual client needs.

The Lab's Reengineering Resource Center

Our Reengineering Resource Center lets you search intuitively, using examples of blank organization charts to pinpoint templates and evaluate improvement opportunities. Categories include:

  • Organization-based Templates

    • Support Group Organizations
    • Line Group Organizations
  • Industry-specific Templates
  • Service Industries
  • Supply Chain Industries

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