Applying Phase-Gate Management for Diverse Business Types(<Special Issue>Mechanism and organization activity for succeeding project)

Abstract

Global competition has become harder and harder in every business domain. In order to wipe out unprofitable projects and to improve business profits under such situation, we started corporate initiative to deploy phase-gate management, which has produced successful results in leading business unit, into every business unit broadly. At first, the concept of "Hitachi Phase-Gate Management" that is applicable for diverse business types, was made clear. Then common fundamental enablers such as (1) operation guides, (2) training materials, (3) phase-gate maturity model, (4) KPI setting guide and (5) sharing knowledge contents, are developed/established and provided broadly Moreover, 10 model business units were selected, and supported on both developing their improvement action plans of phase-gate management and performing them. According to the results, improvement of both phase-gate maturity levels and some KPIs were demonstrated in all selected model business units.