Assignment Content

Now that you have completed a Gemba Walkwhere youve gathered information about the organization and identified opportunities to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a processits time to look closer at these potential improvements and get to the root cause of why the issues are occurring. After reviewing these potential opportunities for improvements, you will analyze how you can apply systems thinking at the strategic level for your organization in the Week 6 Summative Assessment.

For more information about how to use 5 Whys or a Fishbone diagram to conduct a root cause analysis, check out the following videos:

• The 5 Whys of Problem-Solving Method
• Cause and Effect Analysis

Assignment Instructions

Create either a 5 Whys or a Fishbone diagram for each of the two short-term opportunities and the one long-term opportunity you identified during your Gemba Walk. Work through each step of the 5 Whys or Fishbone processes to find the root cause(s) of each problem and the potential opportunity for its solution within your organization.

You are creating 3 different diagrams.

Due Dates for all individual assignments every week are Mondays (end of the day). You can submit up to 4 days late past the Monday due date for 10% off. Once assignments are graded there are no regrades. This is a master-level course. Do not ask to "re-do" an assignment.

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