Fortune 100 Consumer Products Company: Multiple New Product Introductions
Initial Situation:
- Projects typically took longer than expected
- Scope frequently compromised
- Frequent personal heroics to minimize lateness
Client Objectives:
- Reduce time to market
- Improve quality of life
- Repeatable process to implement clear and stable priorities
The ProChain Solution:
- Implement ProChain Project Managment in several business units on top priority projects
- ProChain Project Scheduling software and training
- Implementation planning and assessment
- Schedule building, compression and analysis
- Project status, updating and decision support processes
- Education on concepts, methodology and tools throughout all levels of the organization.
Results Achieved:
- Reduced first project more than 10 months (approx. 50%)
- 25 - 50 % reduction on first 10 projects
- One business unit has calculated the per project impact to be greater than $8 Million
- ROI is off the charts
- "After the first project we thought, 'We might be on to something.' After the first few projects we said,'This is the future.' " — Senior Manager