- Look for complex decisions that would benefit from the analysis of large amounts of data like setting up operations, choosing a site for your new facility, starting a new product line, or re-engineering your business processes.
- Look for those decisions that are made repeatedly and which would benefit from real-time data driven insight.
- Look for repeating processes that are performed with out-dated systems or methodologies.
Determine whether you are gaining the most out of your processes how you deliver your services, how you set your prices, and whether you are fully leveraging your Supply Chain, logistics, or ERP systems.
Signs that there may be a "breakthrough" benefit
for
your organization.
- You don't even know who your most profitable customers or products/services are.
- You have bottlenecks, inventory pile-ups, back-logs, or orders you can't fulfill.
- Customer satisfaction is down.
- Your processes are too intricate and too interconnected for you to see their impact on your bottom line.
- Something/someone is always waiting for something/someone else.
- Lead times are too high.
- You have data that you have not turned into value.
- You have no data, or data collection process.
- Your processes are in a knot, and many of the smaller, day-to-day decisions are not being made well and are affecting your ability to generate revenues.
- Your key operational systems lack intelligence and reactivity.
- Risk is high and you need to limit or contain it.
- You face difficult decisions and are overwhelmed by the complexity and the number of dependencies on your decisions.
- Your competitors are already leveraging
Management Science technologies and have
left you behind.
