Department optimisation: Unleash ideas with KIROI Step 6

Departmental optimisation is a crucial process for sustainably increasing efficiency and innovative strength within a company. The KIROI method approach in particular offers a structured path for targeting precisely this area. In the sixth step of this strategy, a special focus is placed on the release and targeted channelling of ideas and creativity within the teams. This allows existing potential to be utilised and new approaches to be developed at the same time, leading to improved results in the long term.

Department optimisation with KIROI Step 6: Systematically unleash ideas

The sixth step of the KIROI method supports teams in achieving structured idea generation. It is not just about spontaneous suggestions, but about a targeted, moderated process that combines creativity with analytical tools. Ideas are collected, analysed and evaluated using methods such as brainstorming, the morphological box or the Ishikawa diagram. This ensures that only those suggestions that offer real added value for the respective department are implemented.

In practice, this approach is used in a variety of ways: a marketing team, for example, uses step 6 to go beyond standard campaigns with new customer approach concepts. A financial services provider also uses the method to shorten processes and minimise errors in the back office through digital automation approaches. A mechanical engineering company, on the other hand, combines the KIROI method with Six Sigma to sustainably establish quality innovations in production.

BEST PRACTICE with one customer (name hidden due to NDA contract) A medium-sized manufacturing company was able to significantly improve team communication between planning and production by implementing step 6 of the KIROI method. Ideas for avoiding production downtimes were developed in moderated workshops and combined with AI sensor technologies. The result was a sustainable reduction in rejects and downtime.

Practical tips for the successful development of ideas

For departmental optimisation with KIROI Step 6 to be truly effective, companies should create a few important framework conditions:

• Establish a culture of open communication in which employees can share their ideas without inhibitions.
• Use creativity techniques in a targeted manner, such as brainstorming or mind mapping, to bring in diverse perspectives.
• Ensure regular feedback cycles so that collected ideas do not remain unutilised, but are tested, adapted and implemented.
• Putting together interdisciplinary teams to integrate different expertise and experience into the innovation process.
• Use modern AI-supported tools that help to quantitatively evaluate and prioritise ideas.

These impulses not only strengthen the power of innovation, but also increase acceptance among all those involved. This is because clients often report that the involvement and the process itself are at least as important as the actual solution.

In one HR department, for example, the use of KIROI Step 6 led to the development of targeted training programmes. The teams identified bottlenecks in the recruitment process and proposed automated screening procedures that now improve the quality of applicant selection.

In sales, data-based analyses, controlled via step 6, make it possible to better understand customer preferences and thus adapt offer packages in a targeted manner. This often results in increased closing rates and sustainable customer relationships.

Cross-departmental synergies through KIROI Step 6

Departmental optimisation benefits in particular when the ideas gained do not remain isolated in one unit, but are further developed in collaboration with other departments. For example, a production process in mechanical engineering can benefit from inputs from IT for digital sensor technology or from purchasing for material optimisation.

A well-known example shows how a marketing team developed new data-driven approaches for customer segmentation together with the IT department with the help of KIROI Step 6. These measures led to a more efficient budget allocation and more precise targeting.

My analysis

Departmental optimisation is a continuous process that can be significantly supported by the targeted use of methods such as KIROI Step 6. This step offers teams a structured opportunity to systematically generate, evaluate and pragmatically implement ideas. The combination of creativity techniques, analytical tools and moderated support not only enables short-term improvements, but also promotes a sustainable culture of innovation. This clearly shows that open communication, interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of modern technologies are key success factors. Those who take these impulses into account often achieve a noticeable increase in productivity, better quality in processes and higher employee motivation - central goals of every departmental optimisation.

Further links from the text above:

Department optimisation: Step 6 to innovative ideas with KIROI [2]

Department optimisation through targeted impulses: KIROI Step 6 [4]

Department optimisation: With KIROI step 6 to idea power [6]

Process optimisation: everything to do with [5]

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