Our History
Our success in meeting our own challenges has shaped our unique approach to consultancy
The US network of a global insurance company needed help to change its reputation for late delivery and poor quality of service. The scope of the programme involved 29 sites spread across seven regions of the USA and the activity would involve both market facing teams and remote back office service centres.
The client sought our help to transform processes and implement standard ways of working across many widespread locations. However, with individual teams believing their way of doing things was the best, there was a strong reluctance to change. Our team had to work hard to overcome these barriers in order to embed a culture of continuous improvement.
Given the scale of the project, and our deep experience of complex, enterprise-wide Lean implementations, one office was chosen to pilot the new approach before its rollout across the network.
Our own experience has shown that a high level of employee engagement is vital to sustaining new processes and ways of working. We
We then worked with these pilot teams to codify this new way of working into a formal architecture, creating one standardised end-to-end solution for the various underwriting processes. This focussed on delivering the best possible quality and customer service, by shortening lead times and reducing the number of transactional errors.
The new solution was supported by the introduction of rigorous, customer-focussed KPIs, together with visual management that allowed workload to be prioritised. This gave all employees a clear view of current performance and the ability to identify and solve problems.
As a
Our team of expert practitioners transferred their knowledge and experience to more than 500 operational staff and managers, and trained 72 Enterprise and Local Champions, providing our
By the end of the 19-month project, exceptional results and benefits had been achieved:
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Performance through Engagement
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