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                - Case Study -

                Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ)

                “The BDQ consultant translated our structures really well, and we found the whiteboard discovery workshops worked great”

                Fallon Gleason | Senior Program & Collective Impact Systems Coordinator
                Jillian Kahn Burch | Results Manager

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                BDQ helps NAZ manage goals, improve visibility and collaboration with Asana

                Main Themes

                • Improving visibility and collaboration meaning everyone works
                  towards common goals
                • Make reporting more dynamic and streamlined by moving away from
                  PDFs and spreadsheets
                • Use of Asana Goals to monitor OKRs and identify bottlenecks

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                Asana | The only work management platform built for scale

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                Background

                To make best use of funds, the NAZ has a strategic multi-year business plan, with goals to mark tangible achievements. The NAZ wants to track progress towards these goals on a yearly basis. This helps to identify bottlenecks, and discover what processes work well, and where improvements need to be made.

                Currently, there is heavy use of PDFs and spreadsheets, and this makes reporting a laborious and manual challenge. Lots of updates are required, and this also means that the reports are not as dynamic or as visible as they could be.

                As well as improving visibility, the NAZ also wanted to improve collaboration - the overall point being that everyone can work towards the common goals, and the progress towards these can be easily tracked.

                Finally, the business plan gets refreshed every three years. With spreadsheets, it could feel like “we were reinventing the wheel every time.” With Asana, this process would be easier.

                “OKR” stands for Objectives and Key Results. OKRs are an effective goal-setting and leadership tool for communicating what you want to accomplish and what milestones you'll need to meet in order to accomplish it. OKRs are used by some of the world's leading organizations to set and enact their strategies.

                More information on Asana Goals

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                Solution

                Workshops were held to identify the detailed requirements. BDQ designed and use an Agile inspired whiteboard and prototyping approach to minimise the amount of time that customers need to spend on requirements gathering.

                “The whiteboards were really helpful - we quickly came to an agreement on what the requirements were.”

                The goals were already understood - there were manually created PDF documents, in an agreed format that made it easy for stakeholders to see goals and progress. It was agreed that a key requirements was to deliver the same outcome in terms of goal reporting, which was already in place, along with the other benefits.

                In terms of progressing towards goals, the culture at NAZ is for autonomy - highly structured workflows and processes were not required, the main emphasis was that everyone would understand what the goals were, and what progress was being made towards them.

                BDQ took these requirements on board and created goal structures and reports which provided the same outcomes as the existing documents: “The BDQ consultant translated our structures really well, and we found the whiteboard discovery workshops worked great” whilst adding value by allowing for a streamlined reporting process.

                “The whiteboards were really helpful - we quickly came to an agreement on what the requirements were.”

                Fallon Gleason | Senior Program & Collective Impact Systems Coordinator
                Jillian Kahn Burch | Results Manager

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                Outcome

                There is now a visible and comprehensive set of goals and subgoals in the system. The NAZ can now dynamically track progress towards these goals, along with tracking work and improved collaboration. It is now easier to benchmark and refresh the business plans, and through this, the NAZ can act dynamically, and also make sure that the best use of stakeholders funds is being achieved.

                “It was more efficient, and cost effective to replicate and clone things in Asana, than rework in spreadsheets.”

                The NAZ now has “a unified tool, internal champions, people are using it to manage their work, and there is a visible goal structure”.

                As NAZ improves its work management processes, the next steps in the journey will be to implement objectives and key results, along with some process standardisation to enhance reporting capabilities where appropriate.

                “It was more efficient, and cost effective to replicate and clone things in Asana, than rework in spreadsheets.”

                Fallon Gleason | Senior Program & Collective Impact Systems Coordinator
                Jillian Kahn Burch | Results Manager

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                About
                Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ)

                The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) leads a collaborative of schools and nonprofits in North Minneapolis. This collaborative offers comprehensive support to children of color and their families on the Northside, to ensure scholars graduate from high school ready for college.

                About BDQ

                BDQ is a trusted consulting firm specializing in digital transformation and technology solutions. With a focus on empowering organizations to optimize their processes and achieve excellence, BDQ provides expert guidance and support in implementing solutions like Asana for maximum impact.

                We help our customers work and collaborate better through the use of technology. Our staff are either technologists or management consultants, and we partner with companies who have great technology. Where possible, we prefer to specialise in particular technologies, to give customers the best possible results.

                 

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