Initialization and Infrastructure Development

* For core team members: the corporate champion, representatives from enabling functions (HR, Finance, IT, Training, Communications) and such other stakeholders as executive staff, the head of operations and the heads of other business units and functions.

Description

Initialization and Infrastructure Development ensures the effective installation of a management system that enables the six sigma initiative to move forward in a controlled and consistent manner - maximizing the ability to yield expected ROI.

The crux of Initialization and Infrastructure Development is to design the six sigma initiative in a six sigma way: with an emphasis on the critical few elements of success. With these upstream leverage variables identified, characterized and optimized, the leadership team has done what it must do to ensure consistent yield and results.

Outcomes

  • Launch Planning - A fully documented sigma leadership system, implementation plans, schedules and activity tracking/reporting techniques.
  • Human Resource Guidelines - Competency models and participant selection, position and role descriptions, compensation, reporting relationships, career planning.
  • Communications Plan - Overall strategy (who, what and when), message content as a function of time, methods and mediums.
  • Financial Guidelines - Savings definitions, project forecasting, methods of evaluation, realization tracking, reporting process. The integration of initiative metrics with project tracking and management software.
  • Project Selection Guidelines - Definition criteria, project type categorizations, problem statement, targeted savings values, approval process, completion requirements.
  • Project Tracking and Reporting - Organization structure definition, user manuals and training, report generation.
  • Management Dashboard and Review process - Create an ongoing sense of urgency, and for staving off natural initiative entropy.
  • Information Technology Support - Software installations, computer needs, Intranet development, databases for final reports.
  • Intranet Web Site - Create a common point of reference, knowledge, expectations, results, participants, schedules and so on to increase the awareness and consistency of approach across the enterprise.

White Paper

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