Case study

Automating strategy deployment processes for greater productivity and enhanced performance management

Wabtec is a leading supplier of critical components, locomotives, services, signaling and logistics systems and services to the global rail industry.

Wabtec Manufacturing

Strategy execution

USA

“We’d taken spreadsheets as far as we could for managing our strategy deployment process. Too much time was being wasted and our manual process was prone to error.”

Mahesh Shankar, Director, Strategy, Wabtec Corporation

Pain

Managing multiple spreadsheets was causing havoc and hindering their strategy deployment adoption.

Problem statement

Spreadsheets required a heavily manual process that was prone to version control issues and data entry challenges.

Root cause

Spreadsheets cannot effectively digitize a strategy deployment methodology.

Software evaluation

Wabtec looked at three different strategy execution management solutions before selecting i-nexus.

Wabtec considered i-nexus alone offered the right strategy deployment features and the ability to configure these features to suit their process.

“i-nexus replaced our spreadsheet patchwork with a single solution that automated our process. Automating our manually-intensive process has led to productivity gains and the ability for the team to think strategically.”

Mahesh Shankar, Director, Strategy, Wabtec Corporation

Outcomes

Customer outcome

Collaborative cloud solution that enables and automates strategy deployment

i-nexus solution focus

Interactive planning using x-matrix
Performance reporting with bowling charts
Root cause analysis and countermeasures for exception handling
Automated monthly management reporting cycles

i-nexus benefits

Built a “single source of truth” that centralizes data
Maintained an x-matrix multi-dimensional planning view of strategic objectives, KPIs & targets, and activities/projects
Automated key activities including report preparation and distribution
Drove accountability and monitor progress toward targets through real-time performance tracking
Brought underperformance back on track by determining root cause and implementing rapid countermeasures

By the numbers

Sites

Metrics

1400

Scorecards

Projects

1600

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