Efficient business improvement

More efficient business improvement is possible! Process assessment can highlight problems that need fixing (assess-first approach). But using the principal's proven TBBDI, EBBDI and IBBDI methods improves first, then assesses later. And this motivates and empowers people more than an assess-first approach.

TBBDI

Team Based Business Design Improvement

Team Based Business Design Improvement [TBBDI] is a team empowering approach to improving the team's activities. TBBDI is agile and fast. It uses a 'Design First' approach to quality improvement, while including assessment models as potential input. Team Based Business Design Improvement:

  • helps teams to foster enhanced teamwork
  • harnesses the power of teams to get things done
  • is more motivating because it helps people achieve their goals, rather than assess their shortcomings
  • uses expert facilitation to support change champions and motivate change
  • designs and implements improvements, both small and large changes are possible
  • can make several improvements simultaneously or incrementally
  • uses coaching to get things right the first time = immediate benefit
  • enhances learning and knowledge through use of expert coaches
  • uses assessment models as one form of input
  • delays assessment until the team has improved and is competent
  • is compatible with process assessment methods such as CMMI or ISO 15504 and variants

Because Team Based Business Design Improvement facilitates improvement first and assessment later, it supports change champions who want to innovate or make significant improvements as soon as practical. By focusing on implementing improvement first, it achieves results sooner than 'assess first' methods. By using a team improvement approach it builds a positive culture towards improvement.

Team Based Business Design Improvement particularly suits motivated people and teams who want to  improve faster and achieve results and benefits sooner. It is used together with the TIMEWhirlpool technique from STARS. TBBDI is also a powerful improvement paradigm for agile teams.

TBBDI Risk

Team Based Business Design Improvement - Risk variant

The Team Based Business Design Improvement risk variant, uses TBBDI with input from Practical Process Profiles. This means that risks are an extra factor taken into account when improving the enterprise. The aim is to build activities into standard processes that by their nature will reduce risk, rather than 'bolting on' separate risk management activities.

This is more efficient and effective in reducing risk than having a separate risk management process, because risk is mitigated in everyday activities and relationship.

EBBDI

Enterprise Based Business Design Improvement

Enterprise Based Business Design Improvement [EBBDI] is an enterprise wide empowering approach to improvement. EBBDI expands upon the principles and reach of TBBDI, and is agile and fast. It uses a 'Design First' approach to quality improvement, while including assessment models as potential input. Enterprise Based Business Design Improvement:

  • helps multiple teams to foster enhanced team work and cross team collaboration
  • harnesses the power of multiple teams to get more things done
  • is more motivating because it helps people achieve their goals, rather than assess their shortcomings
  • uses expert facilitation to support change champions and motivate change
  • designs and implements improvements, both small and large changes are possible
  • can make several improvements simultaneously
  • uses coaching to get things right the first time = immediate benefit
  • enhances learning and knowledge through use of expert coaches
  • uses assessment models as one form of input
  • delays assessment until the team has improved and is competent

Because Enterprise Based Business Design Improvement facilitates improvement first and assessment later, it supports change champions who want to innovate or make significant improvements as soon as practical. By focusing on implementing improvement first, it achieves results sooner than 'assess first' methods. By using a focused team improvement and agile approach it builds a positive culture towards improvement.

IBBDI

Industry Based Business Design Improvement

The ultimate improvement level is called Industry Based Business Design Improvement. This goes beyond a single enterprise and creates a target process profile for an entire industry. The principal has performed this work for the European Space Agency, creating a space industry wide set of target process profiles. There are 4 profiles, based upon safety and security factors, for example the highest profile is for human safety critical systems, while the simplest is for informational web sites. 

In brief, each target profile identifies the relevant process and for each process the required process capability level. For simple, low safety and security risk systems, a profile will only select a limted set of processes at a low capability level (usually CL 1, sometimes CL2). For a human safety critical system, it was found that a handful of processes must operate at process capability level 4 (CL4) in order to mitigate the risks. Because risk is used to determine what processes and capability levels are required, implementing the target profiles results in lower risk, and higher efficiency and effectiveness.

The target profiles used the Practical Process Profile method.