Working with the IfM
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Services for Manufacturing SMEs - Capability Assessment
SME Senior Managers have limited time and resources with which to improve business performance. The IfM SME Capability Assessment Tools help manufacturing SMEs to identify accurately the causes of under-performance of key capabilities, and to develop effective, focused action plans to improve performance.
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Dr Derek Ford
Principal Industrial Fellow
dwf21@cam.ac.uk
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Capability Assessment
Using the IfM Capability Assessment Tools, an Industrial practitioner typically engages with the SME's management team over the course of a day to help manufacturing SMEs to diagnose the causes of under-performance of, and enable the development of an action plan to improve, the capabilities that:
- Enable the delivery of a manufacturing SME's Order-Winning Criteria, such as:
- Unique value
- Quality
- Price
- Delivery Performance
- Enable a manufacturing SME to manage its constraints, such as:
- Plant and equipment
- Demand
- Supply
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Case study
Essex-based Radio-Tech is a manufacturer of a wide range of monitoring sensors. Its products are used across a range of industries and sectors. The IfM provided Radio-Tech with a highly-qualified graduate to focus on important business issues, helping address issues which other team members may not have been able to deal with due to business constraints.
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