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Ocasa Homes was founded in 2018 and rapidly expanded to 80 staff, they needed to document processes to centralise crucial information.
Pluxee UK adopt Liberty Spark to drive process documentation
The challenge
Pluxee UK is a leading global employee benefits and engagement partner. They shape the world of employee benefits and engagement by bringing to life a personalised and sustainable employee experience at work and beyond.
Pluxee UK had built an extensive process documentation library which was very difficult to maintain due to consumption of resource. Core end-to-end processes were evolving and changing at pace and the team at Pluxee UK recognised that traditional one-dimensional tools such as Visio were not going to be efficient to use moving forward. Continuous improvement opportunities were also difficult to identify and had to be mined through other means, such as in-depth analysis and manual efficiency calculations again having a strain on resource.
Supporting transformation of technology activities and operational ways of working seemed to be an everyday task for the demanding Process team at Pluxee UK as core processes were being impacted and had to be simplified. So, they turned to Liberty Spark, our process improvement tool to demonstrate how essential process creation, maintenance and opportunity analysis can support their transformation projects.
“I love that our new processes documented through Spark have layers and are easy to navigate through in one single place, from seeing high level down to the detailed steps in a single click is remarkable. The platform has so many features that aide my role immensely, from using the ‘Business Tools’ section to easily identify opportunities to simple sharing alerts is amazing. In my opinion, it’s a must have for process driven organisations.”
Qaudir Ahmed
Business Process Owner, Pluxee UK
The solution
Liberty Spark’s ability to easily link processes and navigate activities was the perfect solution to aid process understanding and manage ongoing documentation.
Spark also has user-friendly language and a simple design, which enabled improved stakeholder engagement and understanding, replacing the more complex BPMN previously used. This generated engagement across the organisation and had a positive impact on team morale.
The software produces very professional documentation. This enhances the team’s credibility. Stakeholders are now requesting their process flows are integrated into Spark for a cleaner, more streamlined appearance and analysis to be summarised on a single page.
Using Spark, documenting processes and sharing them with teams became much quicker. The ability to map processes directly in workshops meant stakeholders could sign off and make decisions quickly. This contributed to a more content and engaged workforce.
Pluxee UK quickly utilised the Business Tools feature on Spark, this allowed them to tag and map out opportunities for improvement, and take remedial action quickly.
The versatile insights makes it easy to identify bottlenecks, single point of failures and system dependencies.
Spark generated automated review cycles. This ensured that process owners could set up review reminders for everyone to check out the process regularly.
Taking the hard work away from the team, it meant processes were up to date and relevant to Pluxee UK in the long term. Plus, it simplified the governance process making sure nothing got missed out.
“Being able to create an automated review cycle, that can take care of some of the essential parts of an audit process is fantastic. This is often time consuming and cumbersome for people to do, we can now do it with a couple of clicks”.
Danielle Ford, Operational Excellence Manager, Pluxee UK
Spark provided a unified space to connect risks, controls and activities.
This reduced ambiguity and assumptions among team members.
“Since using Liberty Spark, our ways of working are much faster. It is so much quicker to document processes and create valuable and connected assets we can share with our teams and evolve these at the same pace as we do.”
Danielle Ford
Operational Excellence Manager, Pluxee UK
The result
The adoption of Liberty Spark significantly improved process management at Pluxee UK. The team took full opportunity of the systems features to support in process documentation, linking and review cycles. Spark enabled the team to focus on value-adding activities, ultimately leading to a more efficient and engaged workforce. Their experience highlights the importance of choosing the right tools for process improvement and the impact it can have on an organisation’s operational excellence.
Impact
Streamlined
process documentation and review cycle
Engagement
improved workforce engagement due to clarity
Opportunities
quickly identified within a process
Advance beyond static, time-consuming process mapping.
Now everyone can rapidly document and continuously improve how your business runs – at scale.
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