During the process of projects implementation, hypothetically for the assessments purposes, picture your instructor as a chief executive officer of a company at any industry of your choice. In order to gain the CEO approval for quality improvement project (Six Sigma) and compete for full project`s sponsorship, you are required to provide a detailed project information to convince the instructor – supposedly the (CEO) to choose and support your project.
Guidance for the project proposal:
The proposal must include the following:
- Product or Service Information: ( 100 – 150 words)
Select an actual Product or Service from any local/international company that you would like to improve/change, and provide the following Information:
• The product or service general information such as name, features, value to customers..ect.
• Brief history about the chosen product or service (formation, sales, previous changes). - The necessity for change : ( 100 – 150 words)
• The reasons behind the improvement decision, present no less than two reasons why you think the change is important for the product /service (Leadership, Competitors Technological advances, Training requirements, Rules and regulations, Customer demands). - Define Stage ( Planning) : ( 200 – 300 words)
• Define the project’s scope, goals, and objectives and its team members and sponsors ( Project charter )
• Define the current and the desired status, the project scheduling.
• Define the stakeholders affected by the project such as (employees, society, customers, stockholders, suppliers…etc)
• Identify the team you need and the members` functions that will help you throughout the project.
• What method you plan to use for defining the project (Work Breakdown Structure, Pareto Diagrams) and why? - Measure Stage: ( 100 – 150 words)
• Define the new process inputs, actions and desired outputs. (Hint : Process flowchart can be used to visualize the process)
• Define measurement Systems Analysis tool, to illustrate use measurements scales such as Nominal , Ordinal , Interval , Ratio. In addition, explain the reason for use. - Analyze Stage: ( 100 – 150 words)
• Discuss no less than two conditions that might hinder the project progression (process variation) using one of tools mentioned in chapter (15 – Analyze Stage).
• Describe the new value delivered to the customers upon the successful implementation of the project. - Improve / Design stage: ( 100 – 150 words)
• Present no more than two condition that can be altered to make the desired change ( cost , operation, human resource).
• Discuss one to two techniques you plan to use to improve the efficiency of process such as lean tools, 5S …etc. - Control Stage: ( 100 – 150 words)
• Identify two methods that the team can use to evaluate performance after the project completion.
• Document two to three learned lessons from the process ( This part could be connected to the overall project experience )
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