Case study

Industrial engineering firm uses i-nexus to support operational excellence

Thyssenkrupp is a German multinational conglomerate with focus on industrial engineering and steel production.

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Engineering

Operational excellence

Germany

“We were experts in generating ideas but let ourselves down with poor execution. There were a number of reasons, all perfectly understandable with a company of our size and history.”

Dr. Georg Ziglier, Head of Business Excellence, Materials Services, Thyssenkrupp AG

Background

Pain

Great at improvement ideas, poor execution…at scale.

Problem statement

Lack of standardized approach to project management for continuous improvement activities.

Root cause

Lack of internal project management standards and controls across massively decentralized organization.

Software evaluation

Thyssenkrupp considered what they considered the best-packaged solution - i-nexus - against an IT-built solution.

Thyssenkrupp selected i-nexus based on out-of-the-box features and the practical economics of “home-grown” solutions.

“Same process. Same language. Same reporting. We wanted to build a new organizational capability in basic project management and i-nexus has helped us to meet this goal.”

Dr. Georg Ziglier, Head of Business Excellence, Materials Services, Thyssenkrupp AG

Outcomes

Customer outcome

Demonstrate direct alignment between operational excellence / continuous improvement activity and contribution to improvement targets.

i-nexus solution focus

Common framework for project management across operating companies.
Standardized approach to measuring project benefits against targets.
Automated reports for project managers and portfolio-level reporting for executives

i-nexus benefits

Drove standardized framework for project management and benefits tracking
Gained real-time visibility into project performance through reporting
Focused management attention on at-risk projects with status reporting
Tracked project benefits and contributions toward targets to improve

By the numbers

OP units

Companies

Projects

1800

Business units

360

The i-nexus difference

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