Improve your process with process mapping
How process improvements will help you?
Having efficient processes are important. It leads to fewer errors, happy customers, and less duplication. If your goal is to improve what your organization does, you should focus on improving the process. Mapping a process clearly identifies where improvements are needed and helps eliminate waste and simplifies how things get done.
How CornerStone Dynamics can help?
We are the fresh set of eyes every organization requires to help them see what needs to be done to achieve great results. Our LEAN Six-Sigma Master Black Belt certified personnel helps your team reduce your ‘corporate waste’ by applying proven techniques which streamlines any process and improves productivity.
When processes work well, employees and customers are happy. If you want to fix your processes and improve productivity, we can help.
Some of the techniques CornerStone Dynamics employs
1. Process mapping
This workflow diagram lays out the sequence of events involved in a process from start to finish. It is often depicted as a flowchart and usually moves from left to right. Because of the visual nature of process mapping, it makes it easier to identify where breakdowns in the process actually occur.
2. Value stream mapping
Value stream maps encompasses a snapshot of the overall flow of a product or service from initial request showing the flow through the organization including supplier inputs and customer outputs. Once the value stream map is complete, you can easily identify roadblocks or processes that may create issues and can be identified for improvement.
3. Future State Mapping
With blueprints, we can successfully map your process improvement goals. Blueprints map the process improvement journey looking at: developing scope, the time and cost to the organization, ensuring customer buy-in, incorporating process improvement techniques, establishing consequences for those not following the process, trial run implementation and change management.
4. SIPOC
Pronounced sigh-pock, it’s an acronym that stands for suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers. It’s a tool used to identify the relevant elements of a process improvement project. It follows a process from start to finish but does not contain as much detail as process mapping. SIPOC is often used at the start of a process improvement project, as it helps clearly understand the purpose and the scope of a process.
When processes work well, employees and customers are happy. If you want to fix your processes and improve productivity, we can help.
We hired Adriana and her team to assist our process gap identification work as we prepared to launch a new business management software program. After our second meeting (and some important discoveries), we expanded the scope of the CSD project to include ‘lead the process gap identification’ work and to create the detail training documents needed to ensure success. Adriana and her team where extremely knowledgeable and friendly. This created a level of trust and confidence with our staff which assisted in the process mapping and training execution/support they conducted. CornerStone Dynamics involvement in the project was of immense value to the site. Their professionalism, attention to detail and genuine concern to see us succeed was amazing. They truly were our strategic partners in the project and we would hire them again without hesitation.
