Reference no: EM133764731
Manage innovation and continuous improvement
Section 1: Continuous improvement and innovation review
Summarise the business or work area.
Review organisational documentation
Which documents did you read?
Which policies and procedures will guide your approach to approvals, project management and change management?
Attach the documents (including the notes you made as you read them) to this section of the portfolio.
Attach the policy and procedures (including the notes you made as you read them) to this section of the portfolio.
Products and services
What are the products and services?
Objectives
List the key business objectives.
Key decision makers
Who are the key decision makers (stakeholders to whom you will report or seek advice from)?
Operational processes
Describe key operational processes.
Supply chain
Summarise the supply chain associated with the work area or organisation.
Performance Improvement
Which strategies are currently used to monitor and evaluate the performance and sustainability of key systems and processes?
Discuss the current continuous improvement systems, processes, and innovations being used.
Policies and procedures
What are the organisational requirements for approvals, change management, project management and knowledge management?
Summarise and analyse current performance to identify changes and improvement opportunities.
Analyse performance to identify performance variances from existing plans.
Summarise the performance outcomes of your business.
Include mathematical information in your summary
How has the current business performance varied from what was planned?
Attach documents showing performance information as evidence that you've collected the information.
Identify and analyse trends and opportunities
Describe current trends and opportunities associated with industry in which the business operates.
Analyse how these trends and opportunities impact the business.
Analyse supply chains and operational and service systems to identify changes, improvements, and new ideas
Perform Gap Analysis using the table provided to describe the current state of the supply chain and operational and service systems and the desired state of the supply chain and operational and service systems. Also identify solutions to bridge any gaps and the cost-benefit calculations of the solutions. You may identify more than one solution per issue
Set objectives
What are the objectives for improving how things work?
What are the continuous improvement objectives and desired outcomes?
Identify team members and seek their input.
Identify at least two team members
Who in the team do you believe is instrumental to ensuring continuous improvement and innovation? Give your rationale for this.
Best practices
Describe best practice ways of working that teams can use to achieve continuous improvement and to be innovative. Give at least four examples.
Learning opportunities
What learning opportunities exist for the team to improve their skills and knowledge in relation to continuous improvement and innovation? Describe at least two.
Seek input
Insert a screen shot of your email to the team members or attach it as evidence to this section of your portfolio.
Section 2: Plan and implement continuous improvement and innovation
Select most appropriate changes/opportunities/new ideas.
Select most appropriate changes, opportunities, and new ideas.
Choose three solutions (from your Gap analysis) to focus on as part of your continuous improvement efforts.
These should be the best solutions based on your Gap analysis and cost-benefit calculations.
Say why you chose these three issues (consider resources, needs and constraints)
Continuous Improvement Plan for [Add business name]
Objectives and KPIs of the plan
List the KPIS associated with the objectives of continuous improvement in your organisation. You have already developed objectives for continuous improvement in Section 1.
Continuous improvement systems and processes
Establish the continuous improvement systems and processes that will be followed as you implement changes, opportunities, or new ideas.
Key actions, resources, constraints and timeframes
Describe key actions, resources, constraints, and timeframes to achieve continuous improvement and innovation as you implement your chosen changes/opportunities/new ideas. List at least six key actions.
Describe the impact the changes/opportunities/new ideas and associated actions will have on the organisation or work area as well as the consequences for people.
Describe actions or transition plans (following the policies and procedures that address approvals, project management and change management) that to will be taken to manage this.
Risk management
Plan to manage the risks associated with your Continuous Improvement plan. One risk should be Non-performance of staff members.
Communication
Describe how the continuous improvement and innovation plan will be communicated.
Rewards
Outline the rewards that will be put in place for staff for achievements in relation to continuous improvement, innovation, and learning.
Knowledge management
Select which of the activities below are used as part of your organisation's knowledge management system to capture learnings from continuous improvement and innovation.
Section 3: Continuous improvement and innovation monitoring and evaluation
Monitor and evaluate performance.
Continuous improvement systems, processes and innovation evaluation
How well you are the continuous improvement systems, innovations and processes are working?
Recognise successes
What continuous improvement successes can be celebrated?
Insert a screen shot of your email to team members or attach proof of the draft email to this section of the portfolio.
Continuous improvement or innovation failure (non-performance)
Describe the failure and analyse the causes.
Attach proof of implemented contingency measures.
New challenges and opportunities
What are new challenges and opportunities?
Manage new challenges and opportunities.
Update Continuous Improvement plan to show new challenges or opportunities. Also confirm that knowledge management systems have been used as planned.
Continuous Improvement Plan for [Add business name]
Objectives and KPIs of the plan
List the KPIS associated with the objectives of continuous improvement in your organisation. You have already developed objectives for continuous improvement in Section 1.
Continuous improvement systems and processes
Establish the continuous improvement systems and processes that will be followed as you implement changes, opportunities, or new ideas.
Key actions, resources, constraints and timeframes
Describe key actions, resources, constraints, and timeframes to achieve continuous improvement and innovation as you implement your chosen changes/opportunities/new ideas. List at least six key actions.
Impact
Describe the impact the changes/opportunities/new ideas and associated actions will have on the organisation or work area as well as the consequences for people.
Describe actions or transition plans (following the policies and procedures that address approvals, project management and change management) that to will be taken to manage this.
Risk management
Plan to manage the risks associated with your Continuous Improvement plan. One risk should be Non-performance of staff members.
Communication
Describe how the continuous improvement and innovation plan will be communicated.
Rewards
Outline the rewards that will be put in place for staff for achievements in relation to continuous improvement, innovation, and learning.
Knowledge management
Select which of the activities below tare used as part of your organisation's knowledge management system to capture learnings from continuous improvement and innovation.