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openaxyz™  services are designed to provide customized solutions based on agile principles, focus on end-user satisfaction and to ensure a visible Return on Investment.

Our experience

Introduction and Demonstration meeting

During a one hour demonstration we present the AXYZ logic and framing technique, as well as the openaxyz visualisation toolset. Our consultants use this time to inquire about your particular requirements and determine if the method could assist you in solving some problem or accelerate a current initiative. This prepares us for the pre-consulting workshop.

Pre-consulting workshop

A pre-consulting workshop is an interactive two hour meeting with a small group of selected team members from your organization. Before this meeting we do some research to determine a potential way of addressing the ideas discussed during the introduction meeting.

We usually utilize the pre-consulting workshop to build a quick solution with the participants to the challenge that was identified during the introduction meeting.

Even if you do not sign us up for any further consulting, facilitation or training afterwards, you still gain from the interaction as you have not only build a new solution, but we also leave you with an openaxyz canvas where the solution was developed.

Formal proposal and implementation of openaxyz customized solution or proof of concept

Once you decide to using the openaxyz™ method and toolset, we work closely with you to scope and develop a customised approach that will suit your budget, time and people resources.

The proposal process will determine the purpose of the initiative, expected outcomes with clear deliverables and timelines as well as agreement on the approach. The anticipated benefits will be clarified to ensure a return on investment.

Post-implementation services

openaxyz™ consultants provide support for your initiative to ensure it maintains momentum. We therefore schedule three post-implementation meetings where we discuss the impact of the initiative and also provide coaching using our Nine Crucial Strategic Conversations. During these meetings we answer any of your questions and assist in post-implementation support requirements.

Client feedback is very important to us, and these meetings are ideal for such interaction to enable us to continue to improve our offering and share knowledge with our Community of Best Practice.

Benefits:

• Use the latest secure technique to improve communication and enable change management
• Provide instant access to relevant source material, references and otehr content thereby saving time and resourcing in searching for these across a variety of platforms and files
• Reduce the need for emailing and/or printing out hard copies of documents for meetings and presentations
• Use the toolset for training and brand communition to users
• Drive use of openaxyz as enabler to significantly reduce printing and other communication costs

Benefits:

• Sharing content prevents duplication of effort, saves time and enables people to re-use work already done by others.Acronyms and best practices are explained and shared across the organization
• Templates such as strategy planning or project management frameworks can be shared across the organization without clogging emails
• Permission levels ensure quality, version and edit controls
• Create standards for key performance indicators and content management
• Capture subject matter knowledge as well as creating a unique organizational memory available to all even when experts leave
• Easily on-board new users as they can review and use the current content to learn and integrate the organization’s knowledge, methods and culture.

Benefits:

• Simple and effective lifecycle management makes it easier to manage multiple portfolios and activities without complex project management technology and understanding
• Perform rapid diagnostics through visually seeing the interconnected linkages bewteen the top level and lower level activities
• Secure visibility and transparency of progress and performance of lower level activities
• Enable more junior team members to communicate to higher level decision makers about important challenges that prevent effective implementation
• Embed a discipline of managing activities along the life cycle towards completion and measuring impact of the results against the strategy

Benefits:

• Reports are directly linked to activities, making performance management meaningful and relevant
• Prior year comparisons provide information on trends
• Listing of owners  make accountability transparent
• Reduce administration and technical support to generate important information on strategic performance
• Print reports to take into management meetings or save printing costs by using the toolset for status review meetings
• With reports available on all web platforms, including tablets and smartphones, have performance reports availabe anywhere you and the internet go

Benefits:

• Owners of key performance indicators are quickly identified, resulting in dramatic improvement of performance
• Significantly reduce the time and effort spend in monthly status and performance management report generation
• Measurements are easily captured on the workspace making it simple to cost effective to implement effective performance management
• Decision making is transparent and fair based on objective information
• Navigate immediately to actual activities being measured

Benefits:

• Easy and visual communication of performance progress creates performance transparency and accountability
• Linking key performance indicators and activities together ensures the right measures are assigned and monitored
• “Google-map like” zoom-down capabilities makes cause and effect investigation simple and easy
• Standardization of performance management ensure comparisons are valid and accurate
• Behavior change is fast tracked through changing the importance of weightings of key performance indicators
• The ability to differentiate bewteen long term, short term as well as lead and lad key performance indicators
• Train staff in key performance management skills and knowledge while setting up, tracking and measuring performance

Benefits:

• Quick cascading from strategic to operational activities while involving the team members and other participants at each step of the way – therefore improving engagement and commitment
• Shape and direct the activiteis of the organization towards desired outcomes
• Ensure all activities re in line with the overall purpose. If initiatives do not fit into the canvas, they must be reviewed
• Quickly identify and analyze cause-and-effect linkages
• Maintain control while diverse people, diverse action and stakeholders participate and collaborate to achieve their own objectives and activities