Business Improvement

Learn Tools & Techniques and Identify Improvement Opportunities

Business Improvement Workshop

Course Objectives:

  • To develop a common understanding of process mapping tools and techniques
  • To understand that process mapping is a skill that will support on-going initiatives
  • Learn how to define a project – creating a project charter; understanding each step involved – who are our customers?; scope; control and transition

Course Outline:

Defining your Project

  • Who are our customers?
  • Understanding roles
  • Scoping
  • Control
  • Transition
  • Linkages
  • Project Charter

Measure

  • What do customers want?
  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • Identifying Defects and Opportunities
  • Waste
  • Why-Why Diagram
  • Linking Inputs to Outputs
  • Value Chain Analysis
  • Cause and Effect
  • FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis)

Improve

  • Analyse Review
  • Maximising Return on Investment
  • Mistake Proofing Principles
  • Improvement Opportunities
  • Solution Design

Control and Leverage

  • Project Review
  • Improve Review
  • Solution Design
  • Documentation
  • Transition Planning
  • Mistake proofing
  • Developing feedback mechanisms
  • Dismantling of old processes

Who should attend?

Experienced staff covering the business units, teams, area offices, head office and covering the different roles from project ownership to project facilitation