Elements and Performance Criteria
- Review change
- Identify opportunities for continued improvement
- Identify suggested improvements which have not yet been implemented
- Discuss and identify with team members new improvement opportunities
- Determine which of these improvements have been or may be restricted by value stream members
- Suggest factors causing this restriction
- Select improvements for further study
- Study restrictions to further improvement with value stream member
- Outline the opportunities for improvement and current or anticipated restrictions
- Work with value stream representatives to determine root cause of restrictions
- Work with value stream member to identify solutions to problem
- Define outcomes from proposed changes
- Develop a consensus approach to implementing improvements
- Calculate cost-benefit to own process from the proposed changes
- Decide whether the proposed improvements will result in a valuable improvement to the end customer
- Determine health, safety and environment (HSE) impacts of the change
- Agree on proposed changes with stakeholders
- Obtain required approvals
- Submit proposal for all required approvals from stakeholders
- Modify proposal in liaison with all key stakeholders
- Obtain sign-off in accordance with procedures
- Measure and communicate gains
- Make arrangements for data collection
- Make arrangements for the data to be analysed and presented in an agreed format to stakeholders
- Agree and write the communication plan
- Liaise with stakeholders to implement changes as agreed and approved.
- Identify areas which have not met predicted outcome (positive and negative)
- Determine cause of target not being met
- Take action to improve the value stream
- Take action to sustain improvement by standardising