Assignment Objective
The goal of this project is to identify an operational problem, and launch a project to solve the problem, build an solution, action plan, deployment and sustainment plan.
In week 2 you identified an operational problem, which is the premise of building your operational plan.
The operational plan should answer the following questions:
- What is the problem we are trying to solve?
- Where are we now?
- Where do we want to be?
- How do we get there?
- How do we measure progress?
- How to we ensure the progress is sustained?
Required Elements of your final paper
- Abstract (this is where you do a high level overview of the problem and project)
- Project charter (Week 2 – Build a Project Charter)
- Budget, outlining the ROI – this does not have to be a gain in revenue
- Problem solving method (Week 3 – Designing a Study)
- Balanced Scorecard ( Week 6 – Balanced Score Card Assignment)
- Value Stream Map (Week 4 – Value Stream Map)
- Use of one statistical tool that you used to help understand the operational problem and assisted you in finding a solution during your project. Refer to Chapter 7 for examples of statistical tools. You must actually build a tool and discuss how you used it in your project.
- Solution, which includes the Implementation Plan.
- Outcomes – including if you met your ROI and if not, why.
- Sustainment Plan – Ongoing monitoring of plan to ensure it is being sustained.
- Conclusion
You are allowed to use the sections you built throughout the course in the paper.
Paper Requirements
Paper APA Format
10-page minimum
Meeting all required elements of the paper
Supporting tools should be in the appendix and not the body of the paper – please make sure you understand, per APA guidelines what should be in the appendix v. the actual paper.
4 credible references
