Ocasa Homes | Achieving Operational Excellence and Scaling Efficiently
Ocasa Homes was founded in 2018 and rapidly expanded to 80 staff, they needed to document processes to centralise crucial information.
Business process improvement that supports growth.
Highlight help businesses ensure they are getting the most out of their technology investments. The Highlight platform helps monitor apps, services and other resources and presents this in a meaningful, business friendly way.
The business has seen increasing growth as its solutions have become more relevant in an ever more complex world. With increased growth and ambitious targets came growing pains. The management team was faced with inefficiencies in cross departmental communications and processes.
Highlight turned to Liberty Spark, our process improvement and mapping software, for its ability to quickly understand how things are currently working, while keeping the team engaged.
“We needed to understand the current ways of working – to join up departments, provide a platform for measurement and capture process knowledge that was in people’s heads.”
Antony Bream
Managing Director, Highlight
Highlight’s management team already knew that they were experiencing a few business pains with inefficiency in cross-departmental processes and the communication between teams. These two issues were compromising their growth.
Unlike other business-support agencies, Liberty Spark supports companies across the entire decision-making cycle: from education to application.
Using Spark, they ran a series of live process mapping workshops to capture current ways of working.
Spark can map process at the speed of talking. This allows teams to focus on the work they do and how it can be improve. For example, how handovers from one team to the next are performed, how projects are planned and executed and cross departmental communication.
The Management Team wanted to ensure they took on board their team members’ opinions.
They organised a trial workshop with the main people that would be making decisions and potentially using Liberty Spark. The team loved Spark’s hands-on workshop approach. They also liked its adaptability and practicality – it was the perfect tool to apply what they’d learned in the workshops.
They also liked being able to outsource ongoing service management to Spark, leaving them free to focus their skills in developing the business and hitting growth targets.
Processes are published in Spark’s web app and shared with the team. This allows them to comment and make improvement suggestions.
This means they can execute the process, test the new designs and then feedback the results to the rest of the team.
Highlight was able to make changes – and enjoy the benefits of the improvements – within two months.
This speedy turnaround was made possible by Liberty Spark’s expertise in identifying and communicating improved decision-making processes.
The quick turnaround was also made possible by the intuitive usability of Spark.
“Liberty Spark helped to navigate us through the process of capturing and communicating the outputs. We also really liked the flexibility of the tool – we can automate certain workflows with triggers, reminders and progress tracking. We can catch product innovation ideas and prioritise them quicker, which avoids unnecessary time and effort investigating features that we may not end up developing.”
Antony Bream
Managing Director, Highlight
Using Liberty Spark to increase the Highlight team’s efficiency has freed up time for them to respond to the individual needs of each partner, to get new releases to market faster and to win more business.
2 months
to understand issues and realise change
Increased
team efficiency
Empowered
employees to make key decisions
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