Business Process Improvement

The heart of what a Business Analyst does is to look at current business processes and implement process improvement. Old-Trail pulls from a variety of methodologies to suit the unique needs of your business. We approach each project by taking the best skills PDCA, Scrum, DMAIC, and (Lean) Six Sigma. These are some of the same techniques pioneered by Toyota.

From Benchmarks to Continuous Improvement

At Old-Trail Consulting, our digital benchmark and continuous improvement platform, streamlines the benchmark process, enabling you to cut your efforts by half while extending the power of benchmark into a continuous process improvement capability. Our functional and process benchmark services provide your executives with insight they need to:

Achieving Continuous Process Improvement

In a fast-paced and ever changing business environment, continuous process improvement is a must for small businesses striving to achieve and maintain profitability and a competitive advantage. While its benefits can be significant, continuous process improvement can also present business leaders with vexing challenges, such as:

• Defining and aligning cross-functional responsibilities and roles for the continuous process improvement program.
• Establishing metrics that accurately measure process performance across time.
• Devising processes that are routine and predictable but that also accommodate exception handling.
• Integrating diverse systems in a way that minimizes duplication and waste.

A number of enabling factors can improve an organization’s chances of successfully meeting these challenges, including committed executive leadership, a clear and well-publicized business case for continuous process improvement, and regular communication among impacted stakeholders and staff. Partnering with an experienced hands-on consulting firm can also help an organization achieve and accelerate its continuous process improvement goals.