The Jigsaw approach to project management

Whether you’re a smaller business wanting to establish proper structure, or a large-scale company with an established process, having effective project management in place is essential to success. Poor project management often leads to miscommunication, mistakes and further issues that will ultimately impact your bottom line and restrict your ability to develop the business and meet goals.

Through our in-depth knowledge and experience in project management consultancy, the Jigsaw team are best placed to support your business with effective, tailored project management strategies.

Why use a professional project management consultant?

Project management might seem like a straightforward process to implement, but it’s often difficult to see the potential flaws in your business projects when you’re working on them and trying to manage other key elements of your business simultaneously.

By using a skilled and experienced project management consultant like the Jigsaw team you can gain invaluable insight and objective perspectives on how to improve your processes. We provide high quality, bespoke services for projects of various sizes and complexities across several industries such as transportation, renewable energy, construction, and more. Our experience and impressive results have allowed us to establish a reputation for delivering projects on time, within budget, and always adhering to necessary industry quality standards.

We have achieved for our clients

100%

Delivered all projects on time

10%

Loom cost reduction

25%

Production output increased

33%

Lighter than competitor products

Why is project management important?

Having a set process and structure that each of your projects follows is essential to maintaining consistently high-quality outcomes and sets a strong foundation for your business to sustainably grow. There are several key benefits to good project management including but not limited to:

Manage costs and timelines

If projects are not being properly managed, you won’t have accurate data on how long each stage of the project is taking, as well as how much the results of the project have made in comparison to the time spent. Your business could be losing money on projects due to a lack of management and clear processes. Effective project management will help to make sure all work is delivered on time and in budget.

Improves team communication and collaboration

Working on projects and completing them effectively to a high standard requires all members of your team to have consistent communication and collaboration. Each person should have a defined role to eliminate confusion and keep the process running smoothly.

It’s easy for staff to focus solely on their own work, but a lack of communication can lead to vital mistakes. Having a well-managed procedure will maintain good collaboration between the team where needed to achieve the best results.

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Increases quality of work and achieving project goals

When a structure has been implemented and each stage of a project is being properly managed, the overall quality of the work your business produces will significantly increase. This leads to better customer satisfaction and allows you to set higher targets and goals for your projects to keep your business evolving with a steady level of growth.

Project Management Case Study

Project Summary

Product: Edge computing

Service: Setting up of project management framework

The Challenge

The client faced many problems affecting their product delivery: scope management, cost creep, late deliveries and feasibility issues
In addition, top management were only notified once things have gone wrong or escalated

The Solution

Jigsaw embedded a senior programme manager in Eurotech to study and understand the constraints and develop a framework to be used in future projects
Utilising a four-step approach (process mapping, project delivery, documentation, communication) our SPM worked with the client’s team to create a new Programme Management Office (PMO) framework

Why Jigsaw Business Group?

A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;

Key Achievements

The client was left with a robust framework which included processes, documentation and reporting structure
Following two successful pilots, the methodology was adopted and is now used company-wide:

Visibility of issues enables top management to assess project’s health in real-time
Transparency and granularity of issues as they arise enable quicker reaction
Comparative visualisation of complex programmes enables better distribution of resources
Key KPI’s can be measured against targets in real-time, allowing for flexing of resources and changes to product before finalisation of design

Other Case Studies

Sensata Technologies

Jigsaw were asked to help with the implementation of costing analysis and modelling of a core product for Sensata through workshops and teardown activities.

Faurecia

Faurecia – as one of the world’s largest car component manufacturers – was required to build a plant that would support its client BMW Mini and where 280 new employees were required to seamlessly integrate into this new start-up facility, without any disruption to production.

The client faced many problems affecting their product delivery: scope management, cost creep, late deliveries and feasibility issues
In addition, top management were only notified once things have gone wrong or escalated

Jigsaw embedded a senior programme manager in Eurotech to study and understand the constraints and develop a framework to be used in future projects
Utilising a four-step approach (process mapping, project delivery, documentation, communication) our SPM worked with the client’s team to create a new Programme Management Office (PMO) framework

A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;

The client was left with a robust framework which included processes, documentation and reporting structure
Following two successful pilots, the methodology was adopted and is now used company-wide:

Visibility of issues enables top management to assess project’s health in real-time
Transparency and granularity of issues as they arise enable quicker reaction
Comparative visualisation of complex programmes enables better distribution of resources
Key KPI’s can be measured against targets in real-time, allowing for flexing of resources and changes to product before finalisation of design

Eurotech

Product: Edge computing

Service: Setting up of project management framework

Sensata Technologies

Jigsaw were asked to help with the implementation of costing analysis and modelling of a core product for Sensata through workshops and teardown activities.