For this assignment, select a company familiar to you, preferably one where you have been employed, and consider a process within that company that needs improvement. This could be a business process, a manufacturing process, a distribution process, or a service process that you have observed or been involved with during your career.
prepare a recommended process improvement proposal that incorporates tools and methods learned in this course.
In your paper,
- Describe the company and how the selected process fits into the company’s overall framework.
- Create a step-by-step description of the current process, incorporating a process flow chart.
- Analyze the current process for inefficiencies.
- Develop a process improvement recommendation, including a detailed plan that incorporates business process engineering theory and benchmark the reengineered process to a close business competitor.
- Design the process to be more efficient, using appropriate tools and methods learned throughout the course, including capacity utilization improvements and quality control models.
- Explain possible challenges in implementing the process changes.
- Assess the expected benefits of the improved process and the potential benefits.
The Process Improvement paper,
- must utilize academic voice. Review the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
- must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
- Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.