Lean Systems Thinking
Principles of Rightshifting
Five Steps to Sustainable Business Success
Current levels of effectiveness in technology-intensive systems |
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The average software intensive value chain is highly ineffective at delivering the outcomes either commercial organizations or public services need. Most of the money and resources consumed by such systems is wasted.
The top 20-25% of organizations, however, achieve business objectives effectively at a quarter of what it costs the average business to fail to achieve them. What makes the difference? SMS has been studying and researching the causes of this endemic “left-drift” in industry at large for over a decade. We have worked with organizations delivering performance at the right-hand end of the graph. That knowledge is captured in the SMS Rightshifting Programme. |
How effective is MY organization? |
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The SMS transformation programme starts by asking where your value chain is on the effectiveness scale.
How well does your existing system of work achieve your business objectives? Where are the biggest constraints on performance improvement? Where is the optimum starting point? How far do you want to go, and what do you want to achieve? |
What do you want to achieve? |
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Now you have a clear and objective analysis of where you are starting from and where you want to go, we can begin to make plans to get there.
What is the comparative cost of standing still vs taking effective action? What are the barriers to success? What are the risks and how can they be mitigated? Which levers will most effectively and efficiently deliver the results you need? Following a tried and tested approach to benefits realization, SMS expertise across the whole development and delivery lifecycle gives you a clear root cost analysis from which to plan and budget your transformation programme. |
Prioritise and enable: act today, plan for tomorrow |
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Based on root cost analysis, strategic goals and business constraints, which of the solution options are right for your organization now, given your business strategy and constraints? What are the priorities, the timescales, the budgets?
The Rightshifting programme is not a “one size fits all” solution, but a programme tailored to meet the needs of your organisation. SMS brings a wealth of know-how and experience to the table to inform your discussions and decision-making. We will help you decide what is going to work best for your people, in your circumstances. We are focused on achieving what you need to achieve in the short-term without damaging the long-term interests of the business. |
Fast track to sustainable success |
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Making the decision takes you to the beginning of your Rightshifting journey. Now it needs a plan for how to implement, communicate and engage all the stakeholders in “making it so”. Nothing helps you get things moving more effectively than an expert guide who can steer your team away from wasteful and discouraging dead-ends.
SMS’ structured and methodical approach uses established, effective Lean techniques to rapidly transform your business into one which continually adapts and responds to a changing market. Quick-wins build commitment; iterative improvements deliver stakeholder value incrementally. It is a low-risk intervention which delivers both a quick return – fixing the issues you know you have now – and lasting benefit. |
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