Three real
life examples of improved companies' results via the Helix approach:
Insurance
Agency Operations (Sales): Three-day session to
develop the annual tactical plan. Result:
Initiatives developed and implemented resulted in 18%
increase in Life sales. In the rest of the industry
Life sales were flat that year. Executive directly
credited the three-day planning session with setting up this
success.
Corporate
director of a large automobile manufacture continuous quality improvement
task force: “What
you helped us achieve in just two days would have taken
our task force six weeks to accomplish.” (Note:
this was because the task force was trying to facilitate
itself ).
A regional
telephone company: Reduced average commercial customer
change order process time from 100+ elapsed hours to less
than 50 hours without touching any of the I/T systems.
"
The results are in -- and, without qualification, our officers
agree that
this was one of the most valuable planning meetings they have
ever attended."
