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It's been an evolution
Catalyst Technologies, a division of Process D, Inc., was formed to develop and distribute an advanced process management
system that integrated quality of life principles into project and
daily operations of people centric organizations. This is the result of
two decades of field research that refined a leadership methodology empowering individuals to
dramatically increase company productivity and lower cost, while increasing their motivation. From
this research and to more easily demonstrate the value management
received from improving quality of life of their workforce, the
company developed a very comprehensive software tool nicknamed "u2".
The "u2" software application is a breakthrough in improving productivity, efficiency and quality
through use of positive leadership principles.
The original company was founded in 1987 to support the U.S. government with research and development for space technology. Since that time, our clients have ranged from
Department of Defense mission-critical programs, with budgets so large that they're reviewed as separate line items for Congress, to start-up Internet companies competing with infamous “P2P” movie and audio file sharing web dot-com's.
In response to our clients’ business challenges involved with improving customer satisfaction, quality, time-to-market and process costs, we
seamlessly incorporated industry best practices within the “u2” leadership
paradigm, including Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Process Improvement (following a “Kaizen” style), Dashboard Leadership, Balanced Scorecard, and Predictive Metric analysis.
The secret sauce within our “u2” software is our people focused leadership technology.
This technology is based on solid mathematical and engineering
principles developed over a 20 year period of time. In 1986, the
company founder and principal inventor of the people focused
leadership technology, Mr. Bruce Nagy, was directed to recover a congressionally visible program associated with software and hardware throughput
performance. Numerous previous solutions and methodologies had
failed to make any headway in solving this very serious issue.
Using the same set of people assigned
to the program who had failed to identify a solution over the
previous 6 months, Mr. Nagy, in one afternoon, was able to map out
the plan that would eventually resolve their organizational and
technical issues within one year. In one year, throughput
performance went from 1000 hours to 120 hours. These results surprised
and even shocked people involved.
Mr. Nagy had saved the program from
harsh Congressional criticism and a severe national security vulnerability.
What was considered impossible to do
by
the program's brightest team
of scientists and engineers, could now
be done, and it could be done on time and within budget.
Was it an aberration? Mr. Nagy was
asked to help recover another failed project sponsored by the
government. In this case, Mr. Nagy was provided an
inexperienced team, and still they solved the problem and achieved the
goals in less time than the most senior people concurrently working
on the issue. The senior engineers didn't want anything to do
with the inexperienced outsiders because they thought it was a waste
of time. Normally, that would have been true. How
surprised they were to validate the accuracy of the answers
identified by Mr. Nagy's inexperienced team 6 months later.
Why could Mr. Nagy recover these programs using the same employees or at
times, inexperienced teams, and still get the results, when there had been
so many previously failed attempts?
Over time, he realized that his actions had some common elements that could
ultimately lead to a business science breakthrough involving leadership.
“The "u2" Leadership Software is able to seamlessly integrate Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Process Improvement (‘Kaizen’ style), Dashboard Leadership and Balanced Scorecard by using a unique Predictive Metric approach focused on increasing intangible assets like group creativity and initiative regarding productivity and cost
reduction,” he says. “When I’m in the field having to meet a seemingly impossible deadline, I need a tool that can objectively identify bottlenecks in an implementation approach
before execution - whether those bottlenecks come from the organizational structure, technology, processes or personalities involved. Additionally, the technology needs to
provide accurate information as to next steps regarding productivity and effectiveness, focusing on better matching the implementation
team's strengths and needs to the business objectives and implementation approaches used. If I needed this, maybe other managers would benefit from this capability too.”
The “u2” is an evolution of two decades of field research in
workforce productivity, turning “lemons into lemonade.” It's
purpose is to provide management with practical leadership tools and
techniques to more effectively manage the learning and growth of
their workforce to meet business objectives more productively,
efficiently and reliably, achieving the quality expected of an
exceptional staff.
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