UI AGC designs, develops and implements Ducati, a web based information management and dashboard reporting solutions for monitoring the performance and progress of Aerospace Six Sigma and Lean initiatives.
Ducati provides a one of a kind life cycle infrastructure to support enterprise-wide process improvement and knowledge management initiatives for Six Sigma/Lean. Ducati allows Management to make informed and improved decisions aimed at improving the performance of Six Sigma/Lean initiatives.
Some of the functionality within Ducati includes:
Strategic Project Mapping
Project Area Dashboards
Enterprise-wide Process Improvement Dashboard
Proactive Knowledge Share
Charter and Business Case Development
Project Financials and Schedule tracking
Advantages and Benefits
Institutionalizes Six Sigma/Lean disciplines across the organization
Execute a higher number of Six Sigma/Lean projects allowing operational efficiency and market competitiveness
Quickly determine which projects are delivering the greatest financial benefit
Monitor project cost savings while improving ROI per project
Assists management in making improved and informed decisions about project investment allocation and financial performance
Reallocate staff though improved project management
Improved visibility into the number and types of projects supporting key corporate initiatives
Share project best practices across the enterprise
Ducati Solves the Following Six Sigma / LEAN
Organizational Questions:
Financials
I can’t tell if my Six Sigma projects are providing financial benefits to the organization
I have no way of monitoring the real time financial savings of my Six Sigma Projects
Knowledge Share
Our projects are not meeting objectives because we’re unable to easily access and apply organizational lessons learned from other projects
Charter Creation
I have no visibility into what types of Six Sigma projects are in process or being initiated across the organization
Reporting Dashboard
I have no central system to track and improve the performance of my Six Sigma Projects
Lessons Learned
I can’t access a central repository to leverage lessons learned on prior projects to ensure future projects are a success
Strategic Mapping
We continue missing our organizational objectives because we have no way of monitoring if our projects are “mapping” to key Enterprise-wide organizational initiatives
Six Sigma Institutionalization
We have had a difficult time increasing adoption of Six Sigma processes across the organization
Training
Organizing the training initiative for new and ongoing projects takes too long and is more expensive than it needs to be
Deliverables
The quality of our Six Sigma project deliverables are not meeting our standards because we don’t have a system to monitor and improve processes related to deliverable quality
Legacy System and Data Integration
Our organization can’t access disparate data and key metrics for better decision making and reporting aimed at improving the Six Sigma process
Ducati’s Unique Architecture Provides the Following
Flexibility, scalable, ease of use and rapid deployment
Data consistency and accuracy across the enterprise
Integration with organizations legacy systems
Provides customized and role based dashboards, and personalized metrics
Multi-level dashboard drill down providing detailed performance analysis, trending metrics and reporting
Metrics roll-up for personalized summary performance reporting and analysis
Simplified enterprise data collection through automation
Provides customized Project performance scorecards and trending analysis
Company wide Project performance publishing
Performance and trend reporting of Projects within each division
Knowledge Management
Alerts and notifications
Further customization based on user requirements
Ability to enter Charters, track and report on financial baseline versus actual performance, manage training and scheduling, track deliverable quality, and provide Executive summary performance reporting