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

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相关者合作，这是西约克郡地区一所大学、商业银行、会计专业人士和管理顾问之间的合作试点项目，所有这些人在生产力测量和改进方面都有广泛但重叠的专业领域。干预将帮助制造业中小企业发展其绩效管理能力，以发展其长期生产力的总体目标。这种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，因此从理论、实践和商业角度来看，将提高中小企业参与者的适宜性、可行性和信心。该项目针对的是包含大量国内拥有的家族企业的制造企业，在使用时是免费的，这些企业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他们目前的总生产力，确定他们的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来自他们当前系统的数据来评估绩效。该项目的成果是协助每间中小企制订他们自己的策略性生产力改善计划，并验证其可行性。该项目将利用和评估三种主要工具，帮助中小企业管理业绩和提高生产力。这些是：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)一个映射框架，使中小企业能够将关键过程和测量机会与他们的整体生产力计算联系起来；3)基于标准的计分卡，用于评价其改进计划的适宜性、可行性和有效性。

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.