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2. ISCOM 472 Entire Course • ISCOM 472 Week 1 DQ 1 • ISCOM 472 Week 1 DQ 2 • ISCOM 472 Week 1 DQ 3 • ISCOM 472 Week 1 Individual Elements of Lean Paper • ISCOM 472 Week 2 DQ 1 • ISCOM 472 Week 2 DQ 2 • ISCOM 472 Week 2 DQ 3 • ISCOM 472 Week 2 Learning Team Need for a Lean Initiatives Paper • ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ  1

3. ISCOM 472 Final Exam Guide • 1.         Lean enterprise is a systematic methodology to reduce the complexity and streamline a process to identify and eliminate waste in company processes. • 2.         Just –In-Time is the same as a lean manufacturing approach. • 3.         The end goal of Lean enterprise and Six Sigma are the same in that they strive for better process performance by focusing on the same elements of the process

4. ISCOM 472 Week 1 DQ 1 • Where is your organization in the evolution of a Lean Enterprise?

5. ISCOM 472 Week 1 DQ 2 • What technology drivers influence the evolution to lean enterprise?

6. ISCOM 472 Week 1 DQ 3 • What is your organization's vision? Is your organization utilizing any lean enterprise principles to achieve its vision? How has this been effective? 

7. ISCOM 472 Week 1 Individual Elements of Lean Paper • Elements of Lean Paper Resources: Electronic Reserve Readings, University Library, the Internet, or other resources • Research the elements and core disciplines of lean manufacturing and services as it relates to your organization, or one with which you are familiar.

8. ISCOM 472 Week 2 DQ 1 • Does your organization utilize TQM systems? What types? Give an example of how a particular TQM tool resolved a quality issue. What other methods could be considered?

9. ISCOM 472 Week 2 DQ 2 • Does your organization utilize Six Sigma improvement methodology? Give an example of process that would benefit from DMAIC. What would be the challenges that your organization would have to overcome to successfully utilize Six Sigma? 

10. ISCOM 472 Week 2 DQ 3 • What is your organization’s procedure for understanding your manufacturing or service process?

11. ISCOM 472 Week 2 Learning Team Need for a Lean Initiatives Paper • Research and identify an organization that will be used for this and subsequent Learning Team assignments. • Attain faculty approval. • Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper in which you identify a lean organization including their mission, vision, goals, and objectives.

12. ISCOM 472 Week 3 DMAIC Problem Solving • Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® slide presentation with speaker notes addressing each of the process improvement phases of DMAIC. Identify a process you want to improve in your personal life or in your organization, or one you know that may benefit from improvement. Research each of the following phases: • Define • Measure • Analyze • Improve • Control Describe two different tools/techniques, using one slide per each phase of DMAIC and two tools/techniques per each phase, 3 slides total each phase, to analyze a process you have chosen to improve. Use 5 Whys and 5S as two of your 10 selected tools/techniques. You may choose the other eight tools/techniques.For each phase, provide applied examples of process improvement within your workplace or an organization with which you are familiar and apply tools/techniques to each phase. • Define o Tool 1 o Tool 2 • Measure o Tool 1 o Tool 2 • Analyze o

13. ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ 1 • ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ 1

14. ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ 2 • ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ 2

15. ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ 3 • ISCOM 472 Week 3 DQ 3

16. ISCOM 472 Week 3 Learning Team As-Is Process Flowchart and Paper • Resource: Need for a Lean Initiatives Paper • Create an As-Is Process Flowchart for a process that requires improvement for your selected organization. • Write a 700- to 1,400-word paper in which you describe at least three problem analysis tools that you applied to develop the process flowchart. • Explain the benefits of accurately documenting the As-Is process.

17. ISCOM 472 Week 3 Learning Team Individual Process Analysis Techniques Summary • Process Analysis Techniques Summary Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® slide presentation addressing each of the process improvement phases listed below in a separate slide. • Research each phase and describe two different techniques to analyze a process that may be utilized during each of the following process improvement phases: • • Define • • Measure • • Analyze • • Improve • • Control 

18. ISCOM 472 Week 4 DQ 1 • Can you improve something that you can’t measure? Why or why not?

19. ISCOM 472 Week 4 DQ 2 • What metrics does your organization use to assess supply chain performance? What are the benefits of performance metrics?

20. ISCOM 472 Week 4 DQ 3 • How do internal metrics differ from external metrics?    How does an organization know if they are measuring the right things?

21. ISCOM 472 Week 4 Individual Change Management Paper • Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper, usingyour own organization or one with which you are familiar. • Identify the three categories of improvements (cycle-time, quality, and cost) that may be applied to an organizational process.

22. ISCOM 472 Week 4 Learning Team To-Be Process Flowchart and Paper • Resources: Need for a Lean Initiatives Paper and As-Is Process Flowchart and Paper • Create a To-Be Process Flowchart for the process identified that requires improvement for your selected organization. • Write a 700- to 1,400-word paper in which you describe at least three problem analysis tools that you applied to develop the process flowchart. • Identify which of the three (cycle-time, quality, and cost) categories of process improvements your To-Be process addressed.

23. ISCOM 472 Week 5 Individual JIT and Process Standardization Paper • Choose a local business establishment, such as a car wash, fast food, dry cleaner, or doctor’s office check-in. • Observe and document the process steps followed. • Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis in which you: • Explain the JIT philosophy. • Identify the customer expectations for the service and/or product. • Describe the production process steps observed. • Diagram a process flowchart. • Describe the standardized and

24. ISCOM 472 Week 5 Learning Team Business Process Improvement Plan and Metrics Paper and Presentation • Resources: Need for a Lean Initiatives Paper, As-Is Process Flowchart and Paper, and To-Be Process Flowchart and Paper • Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper recommending and evaluating the selected business process improvement plan for your selected organization. • Include in your paper the metrics and processes to sustain your planned improvements. • Compare and contrast the various measurement techniques used to evaluate a new process. • Develop the metrics to quantify the level of improvement in your selected processes. • Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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