Assignment 6: Develop Your Signature Assignment Outline
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Instructions
Background
You’re exhausted and overwhelmed and eager to put it all on paper, but you’re not quite there yet. After all, your leadership team accepted your proposal and have mentioned in passing that they are excited about what you may offer the company. Thinking back to your undergrad, you recall the ease of organizing your thoughts with an outline.
Instructions
Develop a signature assignment outline. This will require you to look ahead at the signature assignment. Include the following subtitles and succinctly provide the key points to each section. Refer to the questions in each section for reference. Provide a list of scholarly references that you plan on using currently.
- Introduction and Clear Problem Statement: Define your organization by the type of work it provides. Provide the approved research question.
- As-Is Condition: Select one of the topics that you will discuss and describe the current condition, process, project, or root problem to solve. List the Quality Tools (Charts) you will use to illustrate the current condition (see Chapters 15-7 for clarity).
- Analysis: List the preliminary inefficiencies and gap issues of the current condition. Provide the OM concepts used to explain the problem and possible solution. Provide the metrics used in the analysis.
- To-Be Condition – Proposed Improvement/Solution: If already known, state the benefits of making the change in terms of customer, and stakeholder satisfaction, efficiencies, or cost reductions.
- Conclusion: Not applicable is acceptable.
- References: Provide at least 3 of the 7 current scholarly references you plan on using for the signature assignment.
Length
This assignment must be 1-2 pages and all numbered items above must be covered. This is not a written paper. This is an outline of your signature assignment.