SPEED MAZE

The Hizen Mind Masters Speed Maze is a universal assessment tool designed to nullify observed inconsistencies in Human resource management from conception, i.e. recruitment, to the final stages of training and skill development in organizations. The objective of this exclusive tool is to reinstate the assessment of staff proficiency from 3rd party agents to Human Resource (HR) administrative

Thus Hizen Mind Masters Speed Maze is devised as an in-partial but yet accurate assessment application which can be used by company management to define, via concrete data, decisions that need to be made concerning company personnel. Also its application would save funds in terms of less man hours; reduced recruitment processes, training sessions, unbiased promotional assessments

1. Recruitment:

   In situations where candidate selection is in its final stages and there needs to be a computer based test to know the level of knowledge a candidate has about very critical things concerning the company or business, such as company history, its policies, its business environment, competitors, market position and even departmental functions; the speed maze can be used to determine which of the candidate is well informed on those stated above.
   This information would have been technically impossible to generate by using 3rd parties, yet its knowledge would aid in candidate selection.

2. Interview:

   The business world is governed by getting the right information and using it effectively.  When it comes to candidate selection for certain post, the use of CVs has become quite insufficient, because it is hard to tell the authenticity of a person’s capability from the CV. 
   Speed Maze covers that gap, from the information generated once a candidate has played it, the results can be used for a thorough interview session, areas that the candidate did or did not perform well haven played the speed maze will be used to question them; using their responses as a means of determining who is right for the job or not.

3. Training Selection:

   Change is a constant factor in this business world of ours and only those who move quickly with the changing times will not only survive but also thrive. The change factor is very essential to use to determine who goes for what training, because the training cycle of a particular position must change with the times, thus, it is very dangerous to use a training cycle for more than 1 year. It must constantly change with what is needed in today’s economy. However, it is hard to determine who should be sent for certain trainings because the management might not be aware of what its employees know or don’t know.
   Speed Maze can be used to determine the level of knowledge a candidate has, who should be sent for the training and when would be a good time to send the candidate for it. Speed Maze clears the uncertainty of information concerning the employee’s level of knowledge.

4. In house training

   Time is a very essential factor once it comes to training, as well as content. It has been noticed that a lot of the in-house training that is given to employees is either time wasting or it is not full of detailed depth.
   To avoid this situation, speed maze would be used to determine the length of training needed as well as the depth of training on certain topics. In other words, once an employee plays speed  maze , the result would be used to determine which area the in-house trainer should concentrate on mostly when training the employees. This knowledge would reduced the length of training sessions, thus, what would have taken 5 days training, can be reduced to 3 days or less

5. Assessment for promotion and company re-structuring

   Cases where an employee is due for promotion, it is essential to be able to determine how he/she would be able to respond to different situation when faced with them. Managers need to be comfortable with the facts of knowing who they want to place in new roles of responsibilities can face them effectively and efficiently.

6. Work process identification

It is essential to know how employees handle different work scenarios, to ensure they are doing the right thing at the right time. Since the employee that were hired are from different organizations, the methods they use to handle different tasks differ; if one is not certain on how they all handle their tasks, it could cost the company loss of time and resources, especially if they are not doing it the way it is being done in your company
The speed maze can be used to create different work scenarios and use it to test employees on how they would go about handling different tasks and duties. Once the result is gotten, the management team will now know how to ensure that each of these new staff members handle their tasks in the way it should be handled in your company.

7. Industry analysis:

   It is the pride of any management to know that its employees are very aware of what is happening in their industry, and not simply focusing on daily tasks and duties alone. The speed maze can be used to evaluate which of its staff is up to date with the happenings on the industry. This evaluation function can be used to spur employees to constantly keep to date with economic happenings once they know that the results would reflect in their personal profile.

   Hizen’s motive for Speed Maze is in line with a well known business strategy to reduce production resource whilst the efficiency of products or services is increased. These resources may be defined to include man hours alongside stationary assets and introduction of human factors during result analysis, cost of which would be saved by the use of computers and a single administrator. There is no known application that applies this strategy to Human Resource (HR) management. An analysis of what an average company spends on core HR functions is stated below:

   Company requirement	Major Source	MAN HOURS /MATERIAL USAGE	Hizen SPEEDMAZE application
   Recruitment (Final stages)	Outsourced to 3rd party	One (1) Month (human error inclusive)	less than 1month with 90% human error eliminated
   Trainings	In-house	One (1)Week gratuitous training	3 DAYS precise training
   Interviews	In-house	Unreliable data (Extract from CVs)	Reliable data (Extracts directly from candidates)
   Staff Evaluation	In-house	Inadequate materials e.g. appraisal form	Immediate and adequate data created

    

   The Hizen Mind Masters speed maze evolves with its user, thus, it can also be used for the following analysis

   1. 80/20 analysis
   2. Customer analysis
   3. Competitor analysis
   4. Company analysis
   5. Competence analysis
   6. Product and service analysis