SUSTAIN THE GAINS

​Leverage Breakthrough Partners powerful Probability of Successful Improvement (PSI) and Probability of Successful Execution (PSE) assessments to track the development of “improvement” and “execution” capability across your organisation. ​​

Designed to measure capability not just maturity – these assessments assess more than if you are implementing lean tools/practices – they reveal if your adoption of these practices is actually increasing, or not, the certainty you will see results from your effort. ​​

Designed to take less than an hour per month per operating unit to complete, these assessments are high predictive of actual execution results and enable rapid diagnosis of the actions that will be needed to improve capability. Digital tooling to support effective deployment, and analysis, of these assessments is also available.​

​True sustainability of Lean comes when scientific problem solving becomes an unconscious habit. Experience shows that how leaders behave – whether they encourage problem solving with the right questions, whether they consistently follow-through on their Leader Standard Work and whether they consistently recognise and reward the chief fire prevention officer, rather than the chief fire fighter, is the most significant factor in whether problem solving becomes a habit or not. ​​

Our “Coaching Leadership Kata” course provides your internal coaches with a deep understanding of how to help leaders to systematically teach the improvement kata and how to apply the coaching kata in their daily interactions with the teams they are leading. This course will also provide guidance on how to help leaders to develop and systematically follow their own Leader Standard Work and hold other leaders accountable to theirs.​

A common question when implementing a Lean Business System is how much resource is required to support and sustain the system and where should those resources reside in the organisation? Our experience is that this is something that is easy to get wrong e.g. too much centralisation can dramatically reduce business ownership of the system - with disastrous consequences.​

The truth is that there is no “right” answer to this question, but there are many critical lessons we can learn from those organisations whose business systems have become central to their competitive advantage. In this course – designed for those who are leading the development of the organisation’s Lean Business System - we share the lessons we have learnt about what should be (and should not be) the key roles of the Lean Business System Office, what should be centralised and what distributed and the steps you can take to build an effective Lean Business System Office in a larger multi-business enterprise.

The right digital tool has the potential to be a game-changer in terms of reinforcing the disciplines that underpin the success of your “improvement” and “execution” systems.​

With the right tool, every team member can understand exactly what goals the organisation is trying to achieve and how their actions contribute to the achievement those goals. The right tool also makes transparent if those actions are having the intended impact and reinforces the rhythm of execution reviews that ensures that timely corrective action when reality is not as we expect. Ultimately, the right tool, deployed well, can further increase the certainty we will deliver the results we are targeting.​

Breakthrough Partners long-standing partnership with i-nexus – the market leading provider of strategy implementation and continuous improvement software, gives our clients the option to road-test i-nexus, at no charge, as part of any “lighthouse” engagement. To explore how your organisation could secure a complementary trial of i-nexus – fully supported by Breakthrough Partners – request a call back. ​