DiaSorin - Visualising the Journey 

Situation

Over recent years the site’s product mix had undergone many changes, with legacy products being replaced with new auto-analysis products and several new ranges of products introduced to the site.

With so many changes occurring in such a short space of time, the site felt they were just running to keep up without a clear vision to unite them or long term plan to focus on. 

Strategic Planning – Situational Analysis and 5 Year Vision

Working closely with the Site Director it was decided that a strategic initiative was required to provide the purpose, direction and clarity the site team needed to increase alignment and focus.

Strategy development and deployment sessions were planned and held which provided the site leadership team with a full understanding of their current position before helping them to visualize their desired future state, their site vision and to identify the critical projects necessary to move them forward.

Current State Analysis

Using a SWOT analysis the team were able to honestly identify where the true strengths and weaknesses of the site lay providing focus for opportunities and threats that might hinder them.

Further analysis using the Ishikawa fish bone frame work (Man, Machine, Methods, Materials, Measures and Environment) enabled the team to focus move specifically on the individual elements that contributed to the current site position.

Future State Forecast

What did they want the site to feel. look and behave like in five years?

Using the same Ishikawa framework the team embarked on visualizing what the site should be like in five years’ time, answering the questions - How will it look? How will it feel? How would people act? How will the site perform? What will it achieve? How will it be supported?

Considering each element of the fish bone (Man, Machine, Methods, Materials, Measures and Environment) provided detail and understanding of the different facets involved, how they interfaced and the effect the interactions would have on each other.

Gap Analysis

So where did the gaps lie?

Using the same structure to analyze current and desired future state enabled a direct comparison, clearly highlighting where gaps lay and where focused efforts were needed.

Using the results of the current state SWOT the team were able to start their planning with an understanding of the strengths they could maximise and devise mitigations for the weaknesses and threats already identified.

The Way Forward

From the session the site leadership team obtained a clear picture of the current status of the business, an understanding of where their biggest opportunities and potential risks lay and a clear vision of the future they wished to create and the journey they would have to travel.

Moving forward into further sessions the team were able to identify the critical projects and change initiatives necessary to achieve their vision.