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Transformation at Australia’s Largest Charitable Group - World Vision
Lean Thinking in Health Care - Bendigo Health

Outcomes for World Vision

  • Role clarity
  • Focus
  • Energy
  • Smoother process
  • Overall…more effective delivery of our mission

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Lean Thinking in Health Care - Bendigo Health
Lean Thinking in Health Care - Bendigo Health

The benefits of restructure

  • Sound management structure to achieve operational goals
  • Strategic focus
  • Link with the organisation
  • Service development and improvement
  • Platform to sustainable and ever improving change

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Sustainable Cost Reduction - A Financial Restructure
Sustainable Cost Reduction - A Financial Restructure

The program identified a 37% reduction opportunity in head count based on a detailed SMART redesign of what the finance area delivered

  • Essential debt reduction requirement
  • High management engagement
  • Fact Based restructuring of functionility
  • Detailed understanding of enablers to realise benefit
  • Complete re-design of functionality, roles and responsibilities
  • Staged implementation plan based on enabler timelineEnhanced ward handover

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Southern Health - Redesigning Hospital Care: Diagnostic Imaging
Southern Health - Redesigning Hospital Care: Diagnostic Imaging

Simple improvements

  • Centralised communication point at ward level
  • Enhanced ward handover
  • 5S on wards
  • Revised request form
  • Sedation undertaken in diagnostic imaging
  • Review of interruptions to radiologists
  • Diagnostic imaging framework for improvement

...40 days saved per month

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Westpac “Staying Ahead of the Curve”
Westpac “Staying Ahead of the Curve”

What was crucial for success within a short time frame

  • The burning platform
  • A tight well scoped project
  • Very clear deliverables
  • Solid Project management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Right team with great attitude
  • Ready to take learning to other projects

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Swire Coldstorage “Success from Adversity”
Swire Coldstorage “Success from Adversity”

The XeP3 analysis provided the basis for the next steps

  • Idea/Solution Generation
  • Roll-out of “local stabilisation” solutions in early implementations
  • Conduct Task Restructuring to free up resources
  • Clarify the Roles and Responsibilities as part of Task Restructuring
  • Commence standardisation on the basis of “better practice” solutions identified during roll-out and early indicators of performance improvement
  • WRITE the standard procedures

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DHS Motor Vehicle Collisions & Claims Performance Project
DHS Motor Vehicle Collisions & Claims Performance Project

We have not yet finished, BUT it is already a highly successful project

  • Reduced collisions
  • Reduced costs
  • Improved behaviour
  • Improved processes
  • Improved accountability
  • Improved safety
  • Improved vehicle availability & utilisation
  • Improved morale in Fleet Management Team
  • An emergent shift in the culture …Lean thinking
  • Driver trainer starting August
  • ‘ Safer Driver ’ online program

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Pacific Brands Integrated Services - Creating an Agile Enterprise
Pacific Brands Integrated Services - Creating an Agile Enterprise

The program was setup with 5 key components

  • Process Improvement – to find the time to deliver more value
  • Management Workshops – to drive business excellence both now and in the future
  • Fact Based Analysis – to ensure solutions are correct and sustainable
  • Measures and Targets – to provide the necessary focus and alignment
  • Agile IT – to change the mode of delivery to suit the business environment

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A Dramatic Customer Service Turnaround
Dramatic Customer Service Turnaround

Immediate improvement resulting from the streamlining of a complex set of processes

  • Backlogs removed – focus shifted to resolution of current applications
  • Complaints reduced – some weeks saw zero complaints versus previous numbers of up to 300 per week
  • Process throughput improved – up to 100% in some cases
  • Processing variability reduced – up to 800%
  • Project with multiple Waves - Initial Wave led to opportunities for system modification

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Autoliv Surviving Downsizing
Autoliv Surviving Downsizing

Tough times called for a smart approach

  • Competitive environment
  • Head office focus
  • Openness of the challenge ahead
  • Strong staff engagement
  • Process reengineering for current situation but also future success
  • 40% reduction in head office overhead

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Coles Myer Supply Chain Finance
Coles Myer Supply Chain Finance

Process reengineering to drive change

  • Elimination of waste
  • Elimination of duplication
  • Staff engagement
  • Task restructuring
  • > 35% of time freed to focus on productive activities
  • Shift from reactive to proactive

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Bartter Rapid Bottom Line Change Management
Bartter Rapid Bottom Line Change Management

Continuous improvement through high levels of staff engagement and cultural change

  • Complex manufacturing environment
  • Collaborated with in-house improvement team
  • Mapped current and future processes
  • Identified areas of process failure
  • Looked for rework
  • Developed solutions and implementation plans
  • 15% improvement in productivity
  • Developed culture for ongoing improvement

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Myer Furniture Service Review
Myer Furniture Service Review

The business simply wasn’t working - costs were unacceptable, operating metrics were very poor and the warehouse was being used for customer storage

  • Touch points involved in delivering product from the supplier to the customer were reviewed – multi faceted approach
  • Failure points and opportunities for improvement were identified
  • All staff and suppliers were engaged in helping solve the problem
  • The key was to identify and implement Quick Wins
  • Some results included
    • No customer complaints to senior management in the last 6 months
    • 93% (prior – 46%) of units are in DC’s less than 30 days
    • Damaged and returned goods dropped from 15% to 3% saving $520k pa
    • Reduced cancellations delivered $7mil pa in saved sales
    • Centralised contact centre and e-letter delivered savings of $1m pa

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Unisys Credit Services Process Improvement
Unisys Credit Services Process Improvement

Process and behaviour change improvements possible despite high IT reliance

  • Bevington extensively engaged to achieve cost reduction
  • Various process reengineering and restructuring techniques were employed to complement Six Sigma projects
  • Cost management was continuing despite volume doubling over three years
  • The turnaround time for mortgage process was unacceptable
  • XeP3 enabled the critical analysis of processes for efficiency improvement
  • Solutions were both process and behavioural change
  • Dramatically reduced cycle time(up to 40% in one sub process)
  • Over process improvement >10%

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Bottom Line Change in Australia’s Largest Asset-Based Finance Company
Bottom Line Change in Australia’s Largest Asset-Based Finance Company

In the service industry maintaining reputations is critical to prevent a decline in customers

  • Focus was to support front-line staff through effective administrative processes
  • Key areas of concern were loan approval and processing
  • Engaged front-line staff to high areas of improvement and define solutions
  • Resulted in
    • Arrested customer loss
    • Substantially lift in market share growth rates
    • Overall dramatic improvement in customer satisfaction

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Bartter Beresfield Continuous Improvement using XeP3
Bartter Beresfield ContinuousImprovement using XeP3

Build in-house continuous improvement capability through XeP3

  • Strong Leadership support
  • Engaged Bevington as its partner
  • Cost out focus to improve current year EBIT
  • Utilised lean Six Sigma, process capability and project methodology for improvements
  • Captured the “Quick wins” and identify Six Sigma Projects
  • Harvested employee ideas – created the impetus for change

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Supply Chain 2* Increasing Productivity and Change Capability
Increasing Productivity and Change Capability

Consistent approach to improvement across a diverse supply chain

  • Increased the productivity across all the Distribution Centres
  • Developed an in-house capability to run processes improvement projects
  • Encouraged a continuous improvement culture through engagement with the shop floor
  • Increased the acceptance of change amongst team members and increase the change management skills of the front line managers
  • Achieved quick, bottom line results

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Supply Chain 1* Increasing Resource Utilisation at Reduced Cost
Increasing Resource Utilisationat Reduced Cost

Increasing resource utilisation while reducing overall costs

  • Highlighted Cost Drivers through the XeP3 detailed activity data which allowed identification, and quantification of Process failure (Noise)
  • Pinpointed where profit driving activities should occur for optimal performance and maximised bottom-line benefits
  • Developed dynamic business cases using XeP3 Scenario Modelling functionality
  • Compared different processes (by brand, function or geographical location)
  • Captured and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Behavioural Change Indicators (BCIs)

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Finance1*
Branch effectiveness and efficiency

Branch effectiveness and efficiency through XeP3

  • Project was across national Branch network for GE AVCO
  • Cross analysed collected activity data with Branch productivity results
  • Administrative processes (eg loan processing and default management) resulted in rework and errors
  • Identified and implemented best practice
  • Outcome was a focus of effort on core activities
  • Additional value generated through increased Sales productivity

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Healthcare1*
Enhance resource utilisation and increase throughput

XeP3 to enhance resource utilisation and increase throughput without compromising safety

  • Opportunity to refocus almost one quarter of the resource was identified
  • 7800 hours (annualised) of non-productive effort was removed from the hospital processes
  • Dramatically improved factors which affect patient care, for example an 83% reduction in missing theatre items
  • Delivered in a way that engaged staff and measured the improvements

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Hospital1*
Achieving increased throughput from limited resource

Achieving increased throughput from limited resources

  • Identified opportunities to streamline processes
  • Improved staff satisfaction through better processes
  • Minimised process waste (noise)
  • Improved EBIT performance

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Salesforce1*
Enhanced returns through better customer targeting

Successfully operating in competitive investment and insurance markets

  • Made the sales process more efficient
  • Increased the time available for sales effort
  • Enhanced returns through better customer targeting

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Travel1*
Dealing with increasing costs & shrinking margins

In an environment of increasing costs & shrinking margins Travel1 decided to take action. They engaged the Bevington Group to:

  • Assess its call centres for opportunities
  • Address processes, such that there was a positive impact on:
    • Costs
    • Sales
    • Customer service

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