Case Study: a food manufacturing company improves continuous improvement meetings with GroupMap

Food Manufacturing Company - Customer Case Study

The food manufacturing company, a long-standing user of traditional continuous improvement methods, sought to enhance collaboration and efficiency in its team meetings and project kick-offs. Their challenge was to move beyond the limitations of physical sticky notes and markers to better capture, prioritize, and action the high volume of ideas generated by large, cross-functional teams. To address this, they implemented the online facilitation tool GroupMap.

By using GroupMap, the company’s Continuous Improvement Manager was able to create customized templates for a wide range of activities, including root cause analysis, prioritization matrices, and retrospective meetings. This solution led to a significant increase in participation and idea generation, with the team estimating a 25% increase in ideas compared to traditional methods. The immediate availability of digital outputs like PDF and Excel reports eliminated tedious manual transcription, saving considerable time. The vendor, GroupMap, was credited as a huge time-saver that added incredible value to their manufacturing facility and improved alignment across teams.