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Key Features

Opexdrive Platform Overview

  • OpexDrive is a platform designed to help a business coordinate and support its Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement programmes.

  • The system facilitates the creation and development of:

  • An operational excellence culture and system
  • A sustainable approach to continuous improvement

  • The name OpexDrive is meant to convey:

  • that this system will drive Operational Excellence activities forward to ensure that benefits and results are realised
  • that employees across the organisation become engaged and mobilised in the drive for operational excellence
  • that all activities are coordinated, consolidated and accessible from any connected device in one online “drive”
  • OpexDrive provides a host of functionalities designed to support an organisation with the many dimensions of delivering their strategic programmes.

Coordinate Operational Excellence Programmes

  • The system can be applied to achieving Operational Excellence on every aspect of an entire organisation or on just one or two key areas of a business.
  • Here are some examples of where the organisation could benefit from the application of OpexDrive on strategic programmes:
  • Company-wide excellence / continuous improvement
  • Industry 4.0
  • Environmental
  • Safety
  • Regulatory / Compliance
  • Diversity / Inclusion
  • Leadership / Employee Development
  • Supplier Management
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • …or indeed any significant drive towards delivery of a business programme.

The Thought Process... Codified

  • The codified thought processes include:
  1. Understand the current state of operational excellence
  2. Define the desired future state as a series of steps within a maturity model
  3. Work systematically to close the gap using rigorous prioritisation methods
  4. Engage all the appropriate people in the drive for progress
  5. Adopt well established systematic methods for process improvement and project delivery
  6. Connect all programme activity to the strategic objectives of the business
  7. Have a system to manage setbacks, and fix root causes of individual problems
  8. Encourage and incorporate innovative and creative ideas from employees
  9. Provide a resource area to continuously educate and train people and provide them with all documentation

Overview Of The Functions

The main functional areas of the platform allow organisations to:

  • Use, edit, create Self Assessments and Maturity Models to provide comprehensive diagnostics of the current status of the organisation.
  • Establish the gap versus future state for any specific programme or company-wide drive for excellence.
  • Prioritise, allocate, define, plan, execute, track and close projects and activities that will deliver generic continuous improvement or a specific time-bound programme of work.
  • Use or edit improvement models such as Lean and Six Sigma (CCC, PDCA, DMAIC, 8-D, etc) or project management models such as Define-Plan-Execute-Close. 
  • Provide online management information to report and track progress including the ability to drill into the data.
  • Show the connectivity of Operational Excellence programmes with the wider organisational strategy.
  • Support the capture, assessment, follow-up and implementation of employee innovation and improvement ideas from which the organisation will benefit.
  • Give users their own homepage and dashboard from which they can engage with OpexDrive and navigate through the system.
  • Provide online resources in the form of training, documentation, manuals, standards, guides, and templates which support the company’s programmes.
  • Customer Satisfaction
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