Reference no: EM132518613
OPMT 620 Operations Management - University Canada West
Introduction:
Reflection: This assignment requires over all reflection on the case study
Question 1. How do the elements of High-performance workplace (HPWP) system at Southeaster Mills (SEM) reinforce one another and contribute to company's success? What benefits do these elements add?
Question 2. What advice to you have regarding the two basic options for building a more centralized process- improvement management system?
- Do you favour deploying selected employees for Lean or Six Sigma certification training outside of SEM and then growing SEM capabilities and application internally? Why?
- Do you favour selecting and integrating a Lean/Sex Sigma consultant group to work for six to twelve months with the senior leaders, managers, and employees to guide the development for process improvement capabilities and applications? Why?
Question 3. If selecting and integrating a Lean/ Six Sigmaconsultant group is the route chosen, what criteria for selecting a consultant should guide the process-improvement team? If deploying selected employees for lean or Six Sigma certification training is chosen, how should it be structured and managed?
Question 4. Prepare a written description for either the eighth element (similar to the descriptions on page 2 and page 3 of the case? Or as set of points arguing against an eighth element.
Conclusion
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