Thrive Alliance Empowers Its Team with Promapp
Announcement posted by Promapp 14 Feb 2018
Sydney, 14 February 2018 – Thrive Alliance, a leading Australasian provider of leadership and development, continuous improvement and lean training programs, has commenced deployment of Promapp’s cloud-based business process management software (BPM) to support the organisation’s strategy for continuous improvement and ongoing growth.
Headquartered in Melbourne, Thrive Alliance incorporates three major brands, including Leadership Management Australasia, Think Perform and Thrive More. They deliver programs to enhance leadership skills, business and people performance, and team dynamics.
Historically, process owners in the organisation’s diverse business units used a mix of Visio maps and PDF documents to create documents which were then stored on a shared drive. However, not only was there a lack of universal access across the organisation, processes were difficult to update and could not be easily shared across teams.
Strong growth across the business and the need to ensure compliance with different state funding guidelines drove Thrive Alliance to put a strategy in place to enable its 60 full-time staff and over 30 partner facilitators, often training in remote locations, to easily create and update processes. This will also facilitate auditing and compliance and drive consistency, thereby improving the overall customer experience.
As Callan Sexton, Group Operations Project Leader, Thrive Alliance, explains, “We needed a business process management solution which would support operational excellence, professional services delivery and a sustainable future.
“A critical aspect of our business operation is to consistently update documents and enable our remote teams to rapidly and easily find answers and content specific to their roles. When we saw Promapp we were particularly impressed by its dashboard and notification functionality which enables staff to access one source of truth for all content by way of a living, breathing, evolving central process repository.”
Promapp was also seen as uniquely able to support processes reinforcing the Thrive Alliance operational excellence framework which supports client onboarding processes, through to the delivery of learning development programs. The programs often involve as many as 15 stakeholders, 25 separate pieces of documentation and 40 exclusive processes.
“With Promapp, process changes are performed and approved online, in the cloud. Not only does this support continuous improvement but it is intuitive to use. Promapp also makes it easy to share ideas and improvements. Key features will enable us to document processes more easily, improve the approval process and support version control which will drive increased collaboration throughout the business,” says Sexton.
Thrive Alliance will also deploy Promapp to more rapidly onboard new trainers, reducing the time it takes them to be productive in the workplace. The organisation is also looking to enjoy the benefits of visualising end-to-end processes to make it easier to identify areas for improvement, reduce waste and encourage more improvement suggestions.
“Our staff will spend less time on administration so they can support our lean management goals to deliver operational excellence,” says Sexton.
About Promapp
Established in 2002, Promapp works with hundreds of organisations worldwide to foster a thriving business improvement and process management culture.
Promapp’s cloud-based business process management (BPM) software makes it easy to create, navigate, share and change business processes, enabling continuous improvement, risk management, quality assurance and business continuity. Providing an intuitive online process repository, an integrated process mapping tool, and a process improvement toolset, Promapp’s proprietary software supports the development of smarter and safer ways to work, while encouraging sharing of information by operational teams rather than limiting it to process analysts and technical specialists.
Promapp’s wide range of public and private sector customers includes: Coca-Cola Amatil, Air New Zealand, WesTrac, Lumo Energy, Toyota, Ricoh, McDonald's, Audi Australia, Department of Justice, Victoria, Adelaide City Council, Central Coast Council and City of Booroondarra. The company is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. www.promapp.com
Headquartered in Melbourne, Thrive Alliance incorporates three major brands, including Leadership Management Australasia, Think Perform and Thrive More. They deliver programs to enhance leadership skills, business and people performance, and team dynamics.
Historically, process owners in the organisation’s diverse business units used a mix of Visio maps and PDF documents to create documents which were then stored on a shared drive. However, not only was there a lack of universal access across the organisation, processes were difficult to update and could not be easily shared across teams.
Strong growth across the business and the need to ensure compliance with different state funding guidelines drove Thrive Alliance to put a strategy in place to enable its 60 full-time staff and over 30 partner facilitators, often training in remote locations, to easily create and update processes. This will also facilitate auditing and compliance and drive consistency, thereby improving the overall customer experience.
As Callan Sexton, Group Operations Project Leader, Thrive Alliance, explains, “We needed a business process management solution which would support operational excellence, professional services delivery and a sustainable future.
“A critical aspect of our business operation is to consistently update documents and enable our remote teams to rapidly and easily find answers and content specific to their roles. When we saw Promapp we were particularly impressed by its dashboard and notification functionality which enables staff to access one source of truth for all content by way of a living, breathing, evolving central process repository.”
Promapp was also seen as uniquely able to support processes reinforcing the Thrive Alliance operational excellence framework which supports client onboarding processes, through to the delivery of learning development programs. The programs often involve as many as 15 stakeholders, 25 separate pieces of documentation and 40 exclusive processes.
“With Promapp, process changes are performed and approved online, in the cloud. Not only does this support continuous improvement but it is intuitive to use. Promapp also makes it easy to share ideas and improvements. Key features will enable us to document processes more easily, improve the approval process and support version control which will drive increased collaboration throughout the business,” says Sexton.
Thrive Alliance will also deploy Promapp to more rapidly onboard new trainers, reducing the time it takes them to be productive in the workplace. The organisation is also looking to enjoy the benefits of visualising end-to-end processes to make it easier to identify areas for improvement, reduce waste and encourage more improvement suggestions.
“Our staff will spend less time on administration so they can support our lean management goals to deliver operational excellence,” says Sexton.
About Promapp
Established in 2002, Promapp works with hundreds of organisations worldwide to foster a thriving business improvement and process management culture.
Promapp’s cloud-based business process management (BPM) software makes it easy to create, navigate, share and change business processes, enabling continuous improvement, risk management, quality assurance and business continuity. Providing an intuitive online process repository, an integrated process mapping tool, and a process improvement toolset, Promapp’s proprietary software supports the development of smarter and safer ways to work, while encouraging sharing of information by operational teams rather than limiting it to process analysts and technical specialists.
Promapp’s wide range of public and private sector customers includes: Coca-Cola Amatil, Air New Zealand, WesTrac, Lumo Energy, Toyota, Ricoh, McDonald's, Audi Australia, Department of Justice, Victoria, Adelaide City Council, Central Coast Council and City of Booroondarra. The company is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. www.promapp.com