due on 09/10/2016 - 1000 words research paper -business process improvement waste audit - use template below for paper

Criteria Description Summary

Novice (0 pts.): No effort evaluating how to apply lessons learned or follow directions

Developing

Proficient

Advanced

1.  Waste Audit - Identify wastes in your defined process.  Challenge current thinking about the process when analyzing potential issues (target 3 per category). 

(+3.3 pt.) Weakly identified waste in the process.  Stayed rather biased and narrow in thinking (<3 and repetitive).

(+6.7) Thought about waste in the process well, but struggled to challenge thinking (<3 wastes per category or quite repetitive).

(+10) Critically thought about the process and identified ≥3 wastes per category effectively (without too much overlap or repetition).

2. Analyze a Waste - Select any process analysis tool from the Week 4 lesson to further evaluate the process for a critical waste or issues discovered in the audit.

(+2.6 pt.) Weakly demonstrated selected analysis tool with little data collected and results were not evaluated appropriately.

(+5.3) Demonstrated selected analysis tool, but data collect may have been limits or may not have evaluated the results appropriately.

(+8) Collected data needed to effectively demonstrate the selected analysis tool.  Evaluated the results appropriately from the selected analysis tool.

3. Review Audit - Review the results of this assignment with other process owners or stakeholders. Get their feedback and input into your Waste Audit and Analysis

(+0.6 pt.) Did not review audit and analysis with other process owners or stakeholders (may have had issues in Assignment 1 that impacted ability to do this).

(+1.3) Weakly explained how the audit and analysis was reviewed with other process owners or stakeholders (understand vital step for building support).

(+2) Clearly explained how this review was completed with other process owners or stakeholders.

6. Identify Lessons Learned - Include challenges and experiences (generalize what you learned for use in later process improvement projects). 

(+0.6 pt.) Very limited reflection of lessons learned.

(+1.3) Reflected on challenges and experiences, but missed some generalization to support future process improvement projects.

(+2) Clearly reflected on assignment challenges and experiences generalizing for future process improvement projects.

7. Format - Considered punctuation, grammar, spelling, paragraph/sentence structure, etc. Option to combine analysis tool (#2) with template or submit separately.  Most of this assignment is student observations, but further research on other similar processes (and personal communications interviewing others) may require APA citations and references.

(+1 pt.) Weakly formatted audit and analysis.   Had further issues with punctuation, grammar, spelling, structure, citations, references, etc.  

(+2) Used template format okay, but may have had issues with punctuation, grammar, spelling, structure, citations, references, etc.   

(+3) Nice format. The template provided for the Waste Audit is from "The Lean Pocket Handbook for Kaizen Events" and has been pre-formatted to meet minimum expectations (just needed to add analysis tool from criteria 2either within the template or separately).

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