Investing in SME productivity growth by developing their performance management capability.

通过发展绩效管理能力来投资中小企业生产率的增长。

• 批准号: 105445
• 金额: $ 5.78万
• 依托单位: LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105445
• 关键词: Investing; SME; productivity; growth; developing

This proof of concept project will test an innovative intervention to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to boost their productivity through the adoption of performance management methods and high performance working practices. Working with key stakeholders in the local eco-system this is collaborative pilot project in the West Yorkshire region between a University, commercial bank, accountancy professionals and management consultants, all of whom have wide but overlapping areas of expertise in relation to productivity measurement and improvement. The intervention will help manufacturing SMEs develop their performance management capability, with the overall aim of developing their long term productivity. The collaboration merges expertise from a range of stakeholders who are a typical part of regional economic systems, so theoretical, practical and commercial perspectives will improve the suitability, feasibility and confidence for the SME participants.The project is targeted at manufacturing businesses containing a large proportion of domestically owned family businesses and will be free at the point of use, and these will be recruited from the client networks of the collaborators.Key elements of the programme include helping SMEs assess and benchmark their current total productivity, identify which of their key business process affect overall productivity, and ensuring they can access and analyse data from their current systems to assess performance. The outcomes of the project are that each SME will be assisted to develop their own strategic productivity improvement plan, which will be validated for feasibility.The project will utilise and evaluate three key tools for helping SMEs to manage their performance and improve productivity. These are: 1) a digital web based [overall] Productivity calculation tool for benchmarking and baseline setting; 2) a mapping framework which allows SME to link key processes and measurements opportunities to their overall productivity calculation; and 3) a criterion based scorecard for evaluating their improvement plans for suitability, feasibility and validity.

这个概念验证项目将测试一种创新的干预措施，鼓励中小型企业通过采用绩效管理方法和高绩效工作实践来提高生产力。与当地生态系统的主要利益攸关方合作，这是一个大学、商业银行、会计专业人员和管理顾问在西约克郡地区开展的合作试点项目，他们在生产力衡量和提高方面都有广泛但重叠的专业知识。干预措施将帮助制造业中小企业发展其业绩管理能力，总体目标是发展其长期生产力。该合作融合了区域经济体系中典型的利益相关者的专业知识，因此理论，实践和商业视角将提高中小企业参与者的适用性，可行性和信心。该项目针对的是包含大量家庭企业的制造业企业，并且在使用时将是免费的，这些人员将从合作者的客户网络中招募。该计划的关键要素包括帮助中小企业评估和基准测试其当前的总生产力，确定哪些关键业务流程影响整体生产力，并确保他们能够访问和分析当前系统中的数据以评估绩效。计划的成果是协助各中小企业制订策略性的生产力提升计划，并验证其可行性。计划将利用及评估三个主要工具，协助中小企业管理其表现及提高生产力。这些措施包括：1）基于数字网络的[整体]生产力计算工具，用于基准和基线设置; 2）映射框架，允许SME将关键流程和测量机会与其整体生产力计算联系起来;以及3）基于标准的记分卡，用于评估其改进计划的适用性，可行性和有效性。