Benchmark - Process Improvement Project: Phases II and III

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(CONTINUATION OF PHASE 1 we completed last week) Complete Phase II (Planning and Implementation) and Phase III (Evaluation) of the Process Improvement Project. Refer to the "Process Improvement Project" resource for directions and criteria regarding the completion of these phases of the Process Improvement Project.

While APA format is required for the body of this assignment,and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide.

This assignment uses a rubric (ATTACHED) Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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Process Improvement Project For this assignment select either your own organization or an organization about which you know enough to review the supply chain processes and identify a process that can be improved in your sphere of influence. Phase I: Improvement Opportunity Write 500-750 words on improvement opportunity in your sphere of influence. Address each of the following sections: Quality Tool Analysis Identify your problem statement and complete a root-cause analysis. Identify which quality tools you used to identify and vet the problem. Explain the quantitative and qualitative tools you used and provide a summary of how you arrived at your problem. Stakeholder Analysis Complete the interactive "Stakeholder Analysis: Winning Support for Your Projects," located on the Mind Tools website. In Step 2, select the “Interactive Screen App” hyperlink. Provide a Power/Interest Grid of your completed chart (using either a picture format or a handwritten document). In addition, provide a summary that includes considerations for all stakeholders. These considerations will form your communication plan in Part II. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Phase II: Planning and Implementation In Phase II of the Process Improvement Project you will be creating a project timeline to help you implement the proposed solution to the problem statement defined in Phase I. As a project leader, you will need to consider several things before you start the project. The project leader must preplan, plan, and kickoff the project. Planning of the Project As the project leader, write 500-750 words that address these items: 1. Identify which methodologies and strategies you will implement to meet your goals. Provide rationale for why you did not select some of the other methodologies and strategies. © 2016. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved. 2. Which business functions will be impacted by your action plan? What tactics will you use to manage implementation across business functions? What can you do to enhance collaboration/cross-functionality to ensure the success of your plan? 3. Timeline: Create a timeline to implement the proposed improvement to the problem and identify the critical path components. 4. Communication plan: Using your completed quality tools analysis and stakeholder analysis, create a communication plan for disseminating your action plan to all of the stakeholders. Which strategies do you plan to utilize and why? Your plan should demonstrate how you plan to use formal and informal communication channels to implement the plan. In addition, explain how the communication plan addresses what you are hoping to achieve with your goal. Project Kickoff and Implementation of the Project Successfully improving the value chain requires the willingness of required stakeholders to participate. Imagine you are presenting your project plan in a meeting to all the essential stakeholders for approval. Effective oral communication is essential in the business setting so you will need to present your project plan logically and comprehensively to the stakeholders. Create a PowerPoint presentation (7-10 slides) specifying the problem statement, stakeholders, proposed solution, timeline, and communication plan to implement the project. Record yourself presenting the plan and then post your video using YouTube, Vimeo, or any other video site that allows you to post your video. Be sure to address the "why" and "how" in your narrative. Refer to the materials section of Topic 8 for privacy settings when using YouTube. Phase III: Evaluation In the final step for your plan, state in 250-300 words the metrics you will use to determine project implementation success. Please justify why you have selected those metrics. Include specific metrics that will be used to evaluate the success of the implementation. How long will the project team monitor project implementation? This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. General Project Requirements While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. 2 Benchmark - Process Improvement Project: Phases II and III 1 2 Unsatisfactor Less than y Satisfactory 0.00% 74.00% 3 Satisfactory 79.00% 4 Good 87.00% 5 Excellent 100.00% 70.0 %Content 15.0 %Planning An explanation An explanation An explanation An explanation An explanation Questions of of of of of methodologies methodologies methodologies methodologies methodologies and strategies and strategies and strategies and strategies and strategies used to used to used to used to used to implement implement implement implement implement goals, goals, goals, goals, goals, including including including including including rationale, is rationale, rationale, rationale, rationale, is absent, makes weak makes makes thorough and inappropriate, connections connections at meaningful well or irrelevant. with several a cursory level connections is integrated, and An explanation gaps in and contains clear and makes of which presentation. minimal gaps. integrated with meaningful business An explanation An explanation no gaps. 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Supporting sources are present that illustrate a deep understanding of the content. 15.0 %Timeline A timeline to A timeline to A timeline to A timeline to A timeline to implement the implement the implement the implement the implement the proposed proposed proposed proposed proposed improvement improvement improvement improvement improvement to the problem to the problem to the problem to the problem to the problem and identify and identify and identify and identify and identify the critical the critical the critical the critical the critical path path path path path components is components is components components is components absent, weak or makes clear and makes inappropriate, marginal, and connections integrated, and meaningful or irrelevant. makes weak and contains makes connections connections minimal gaps, meaningful and contains with several but at a connections no gaps, gaps in cursory level. with no gaps. thorough and presentation. well integrated. 15.0 A A A A A %Communicatio communicatio communicatio communicatio communicatio communicatio n Plan n plan that n plan that n plan that n plan that n plan that describes how describes how describes how describes how describes how to disseminate to disseminate to disseminate to disseminate to disseminate your action your action your action your action your action plan to all plan to all plan to all plan to all plan to all stakeholders, stakeholders, stakeholders, stakeholders, stakeholders, including including including including including which which which which which strategies you strategies you strategies you strategies you strategies you plan to use and plan to use and plan to use and plan to use and plan to use and why and how why and how why and how why and how why and how you will you will you will you will you will achieve your achieve your achieve your achieve your achieve your goal, is absent, goal, is weak goal, makes goal, is clear goal, is inappropriate, or marginal, connections and integrated, thorough and or irrelevant. and makes and contains and makes well weak minimal gaps, meaningful integrated, and connections but at a connections makes with several cursory level. with no gaps. meaningful gaps in connections presentation. with no gaps. 15.0 %Project A presentation A presentation A presentation A presentation A presentation Kickoff and specifying the specifying the specifying the specifying the specifying the Implementation problem problem problem problem problem Project statement, statement, statement, statement, statement, stakeholders, stakeholders, stakeholders, stakeholders, stakeholders, proposed proposed proposed proposed proposed solution, solution, solution, solution, solution, timeline, and timeline, and timeline, and timeline, and timeline, and communicatio communicatio communicatio communicatio communicatio n plan to n plan to n plan to n plan to n plan to implement the implement the implement the implement the implement the project, project, project, project, project, including a including a including a including a including a recording, is recording, is recording, recording, is recording, is absent, weak or makes clear and thorough and inappropriate, marginal, and connections integrated, and well or irrelevant. makes weak and contains makes integrated, and connections minimal gaps, meaningful makes with several but at a connections meaningful gaps in cursory level. with no gaps. connections presentation. with no gaps. 10.0 %Evaluation An explanation An explanation An explanation An explanation An explanation that includes that includes that includes that includes that includes the metrics the metrics the metrics you the metrics the metrics you will use to you will use to will use to you will use to you will use to determine determine determine determine determine project success project success project success project success project success and how long and how long and how long and how long and how long the project will the project will the project will the project will the project will be monitored be monitored be monitored be monitored be monitored is absent, is weak or makes is clear and is thorough inappropriate, marginal, and connections integrated, and and well or irrelevant. makes weak and contains makes integrated, and connections minimal gaps, meaningful makes with several but at a connections meaningful gaps in cursory level. with no gaps. connections presentation. Supporting Supporting with no gaps. Supporting sources are sources are Supporting sources are present and that show limited understanding of the content. present and show some understanding of the content 20.0 %Organization and Effectiveness 4.0 %Thesis Paper lacks Thesis is Thesis is Development and any discernible insufficiently apparent and Purpose overall developed or appropriate to purpose or vague. Purpose purpose. organizing is not clear. claim. 20.0 %Organization and Effectiveness 4.0 %Argument Statement of Sufficient Logic and purpose is not justification of Construction justified by the claims is conclusion. lacking. The conclusion Argument does not lacks support the consistent claim made. unity. There Argument is are obvious incoherent and flaws in the uses logic. Some noncredible sources have sources. questionable credibility. present that illustrate the understanding of the content. sources are present that illustrate a deep understanding of the content. Thesis is clear Thesis is and forecasts comprehensive the and contains development the essence of of the paper. the paper. Thesis is Thesis descriptive and statement reflective of makes the the arguments purpose of the and paper clear. appropriate to the purpose. Argument is Argument orderly, but shows logical may have a progressions. few Techniques of inconsistencies argumentation . The argument are evident. presents There is a minimal smooth justification of progression of claims. claims from Argument introduction to logically, but conclusion. not thoroughly, Most sources supports the are purpose. authoritative. Sources used are credible. Introduction and conclusion bracket the thesis. Clear and convincing argument that presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative. 20.0 %Organization and Effectiveness 4.0 %Mechanics Surface errors Frequent and Some Prose is Writer is of Writing are pervasive repetitive mechanical largely free of clearly in (includes spelling, enough that mechanical errors or typos mechanical command of punctuation, they impede errors distract are present, but errors, standard, grammar, communicatio the reader. they are not although a few written, language use) n of meaning. Inconsistencies overly may be academic Inappropriate in language distracting to present. The English. word choice or choice the reader. writer uses a sentence (register) or Correct and variety of construction is word choice varied effective used. are present. sentence sentence Sentence structure and structures and structure is audiencefigures of correct but not appropriate speech. varied. language are employed. 20.0 %Organization and Effectiveness 4.0 %Layout: The layout is The layout The layout The layout The layout is Presentation cluttered, shows some uses horizontal background visually confusing, and structure, but and vertical and text pleasing and does not use appears white space complement contributes to spacing, cluttered and appropriately. each other and the overall headings, and busy or Sometimes the enable the message with subheadings to distracting fonts are easy content to be appropriate use enhance the with large gaps to read, but in easily read. of headings, readability. of white space a few places The fonts are subheadings, The text is or a distracting the use of easy to read and white extremely background. fonts, italics, and point size space. Text is difficult to Overall bold, long varies appropriate in read with long readability is paragraphs, appropriately length for the blocks of text, difficult due to color, or busy for headings target audience small point lengthy background and text. and to the size for fonts, paragraphs, detracts and point. The and too many does not background inappropriate different fonts, enhance and colors contrasting dark or busy readability. enhance the colors. Poor background, readability of use of overuse of the text. headings, bold, or lack of subheadings, appropriate indentations, 20.0 %Organization and Effectiveness 4.0 %Presentation of Content: Presentation or bold formatting is evident. indentations of text. The content lacks a clear point of view and logical sequence of information. Includes little persuasive information. Sequencing of ideas is unclear. The content is vague in conveying a point of view and does not create a strong sense of purpose. Includes some persuasive information. The The content is The content is presentation written with a written clearly slides are logical and concisely. generally progression of Ideas competent, but ideas and universally ideas may supporting progress and show some information relate to each inconsistency exhibiting a other. The in organization unity, project or in their coherence, and includes relationships to cohesiveness. motivating each other. Includes questions and persuasive advanced information organizers. from reliable The project sources. gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea. 10.0 %Format 5.0 %Paper Template is Appropriate Appropriate Format (use of not used template is template is appropriate style appropriately used, but some used. for the major and or elements are Formatting is assignment) documentation missing or correct, format is mistaken. A although some rarely followed lack of control minor errors correctly. with may be formatting is present. apparent. 5.0 Sources are Documentatio Sources are %Documentation not n of sources is documented, of Sources documented. inconsistent or as appropriate (citations, incorrect, as to assignment footnotes, appropriate to and style, references, assignment although some bibliography, etc., and style, with formatting as appropriate to numerous errors may be assignment and formatting present. style) errors. Appropriate template is fully used. There are virtually no errors in formatting style. All format elements are correct. Sources are Sources are documented, completely and as appropriate correctly to assignment documented, and style, and as appropriate format is to assignment mostly correct. and style, and format is free of error. 100 %Total Weightage
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Implementation and Planning.
Phase II
Project Planning
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element that is executed and illustrates how the task is performed (Campbell, Jardine, &
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