Highlights
33 best practices on Research & Development organisation, people and performance management, structured in 2 areas and 6 sub-areas, to provide a detailed as well as a macroscopic view
Two uses are possible:
- learn R&D product development management best practices
- evaluate the R&D practices in relation to the best thanks to the online questionnaire functionality
Wevalgo organisation and performance management model for Research, Development or Engineering
The model includes 33 best practices structured in 2 categories and 6 areas as summarised below.
Organisational effectiveness
- Organisational framework: local or global organisation, responsibilities, synergies
- People: qualifications, social environment
- Skills management: level of managerial or technical skills of the staff
- External collaboration: collaboration policy with research laboratories, partners, suppliers...
Performance Management
- Strategic and cost management: objectives and indicators, cost monitoring, budget allocation aligned with strategy...
- Activity management: functional and project KPIs, management meetings, PDCA
Example of usage for evaluation
Perform a detailed evaluation of your R&D focused on Organisation, People and Performance Management to enable you and your team to:
- precisely understand Organisation, People and Performance Managementt strengths and weaknesses through quantified data allowing internal and even external comparisons
- define new Organisation, People and Performance Management ways of working, trainings, or other improvement actions
- define targeted areas to monitor closely on Organisation, People and Performance Management
- easily compare improvements and progress at different points in time
Key steps
The best practices are accessible directly after purchase. In case of usage to evaluate the practices the following steps apply
- The service manager* can directly carry out an evaluation by answering the questionnaire (optional); steps 2 to 4 are optional depending on whether he/she wishes to invite other participants to carry out the evaluation
- If he/she wishes to invite other participants to conduct the evaluation, he/she proceeds to steps 2 to 5
- Otherwise he/she goes directly to step 5 of viewing the results
- He/she can still do his evaluation after the participants if he did not do it at the beginning
- Customisation of the service to the organisation by the service manager*
- Service name, title and introduction for the participants invited
- Selection of participants to the service
- Definition of dimension to enable analysis by organisation dimension (optional)
- Selection of anonymity option
- Sending of an invitation link to the selected participants
- Evaluations performed by selected participants, on the Wevalgo web platform
- Participants connect to Wevalgo web site thanks to the link sent by the service manager
- Participants answer on-line
- The service manager can follow up the answers progress status
- Results available at the end of evaluations on the Wevalgo website
* The service manager is the person who purchased the service.
Recommended participants for an evaluation
For the evaluation we recommend the following participants:
- Research, Development or Engineering top management team
- A few technical area managers
- A few project managers
- A selection of a few people outside of Research, Development or Engineering : sales and marketing, purchasing, manufacturing manager...
- In case of several geographical sites, a selection of site managers, enabling to compare the practices between the different sites.
Get instant and full access to reports as soon as evaluations are completed.
Gain multi-level analysis on several axis that can be explored in varied depths and dimensions through a user friendly results menu. A few samples of the results report are shown below
Heat map
Visualise the performance and their drivers at a glance across all categories and sub-categories
Results by organisational dimension
Compare performance across your own, relevant and entirely customisable organisational dimensions. For example by geographical locations, departments, hierarchical levels or any other you see fit. Zoom in to breakdowns by category, subcategory and/or question
Results by evaluator and category
You can see detailed results to better understand the causes of your organisation performance
Wevalgo excellence model Results
Get valuable insight into areas and axes of progress thanks to our embedded Wevalgo model. Other analytical models may be incorporated, see key concepts for more information)
We have expert consultants on hand to build their own evaluations, assist you and interpret your results. Select the Expert Review option on the purchase menu.