100 Day Improvement Programme

The current uncertainty of business markets promises to be both a time of challenge and an opportunity. The recipe for success will be different for each company but some factors are predictable:

1. The future will be different to the past so there is a need to refocus priorities and release time for business development
2. The recipe for success will include :
   • Stabilising operations at current levels of business
   • The development enhanced products/service offerings to find "new space" to operate in
3. Engaging the workforce with these challenges will improve responsiveness to change and accelerate the rate of progress.

The 100 day (20 week) programme below is designed to help you to build on current strengths to prosper during the downturn and emerge stronger and fitter in times of growth. This is in the form of a (hopefully) jargon free guide which will help your organisation to release time to develop the business as well as reduce costs and improve performance in key areas.

To obtain the free briefings you need to register with us. To be eligible, you will be a senior manager or head of function in a manufacturing organisation. Once registered you are under no obligation to use our services. All we ask is that you retain our logo and contact details on the material we provide.

	Click here to subscribe for the free 100 day improvement guide

Once you have registered we will send you the first three briefings (one for each organisational level) covering the first 4 weeks of activity. We will send you the remaining 7 in line with the above timetable. To help you to measure progress, we provide a 10 point organisational health check(Click here). Complete this prior to the start and at key stages during the programme. This health check measures progress against behavioural benchmarks to provide a lead indicator of performance improvement.

Using the Programme

Use the health check to identify current state of organisational fitness

Irrespective of score, treat activities 1 to 3 of the 100 day plan as both an investigation and as evidence of your organisational ability to take on new challenges.

Use activities 4 to 7 to support the development of an agreed plan of action to target key areas of weakness

Use activities 8 to 10 to implement the plan.

Revisit the assessment in week 10 and see how far the organisation has improved. You could surprise yourself at how much progress your organisation has made. Although the assessment is qualitative, these measures are lead indicators of results. Use the second half of the programme to involve more functions and build their confidence.

The briefing notes include recommendations for managing your improvement agenda after the first 100 days programme using quarterly action learning projects (click here) to set the heart beat for the improvement process and sustain momentum.

Support Options

If you would like our support with any part of the programme we offer a menu of options (click here for more details)