Common Implementation Objectives

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Phase II implementation efforts typically target five major objectives, each with similar work activities

Common Implementation Work Plan Objectives

  • Launch the Phase II Effort
  • Document Performance
  • Quantify Capacity
  • Service Customers
  • Track Benefits
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Launch the Phase II Effort

  • Communicate the Phase II launch
  • Assemble and prep client teams
  • Begin "Immediate Action" improvements
  • Rank improvements using prioritization matrix
  • Complete "Future State" process design
  • Compile Process Improvement Records [PIRs]

Document Performance

  • Document "baseline" operating performance
  • Refine and quantify project progress milestones
  • Develop/expand key operating measures
    • Metrics definition
    • Data sources
    • Collection tasks
    • Reporting frequency
  • Begin weekly metrics reviews with management

Quantify Capacity

  • Document and categorize: work activities, work products
  • Conduct "Day in the Life of..." observations
  • Establish time and capacity standards: activities; volumes
  • Build workload forecast, capacity model and staffing plans
  • Develop staffing plan based on: time periods, work volumes, variances
  • Connect: capacity plan, performance measures, management operating report

Service Customers

  • Validate perceptions of customer priorities
    • Purchase related
    • Service related
  • Detail the links between customer priorities and operations
  • Reduce "over-service" on low priorities
  • Increase service and effectiveness on top priorities
  • Connect metrics to management operating report

Track Benefits

  • Document "hard dollar" benefits with Process Improvement Records (PIRs)
  • Compare productivity/unit cost improvement to baseline performance
  • Forecast and record all staffing changes
    • Attrition
    • Overtime
    • Temporaries
    • Long term leave
    • Separations
  • Finalize weekly savings and achievement report
    • Executive Management Report
    • Operating Budget Changes
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