Operational Improvement Project
A dated improvement plan: agree the problem and target, measure a four-week baseline, find root causes with the frontline team, pilot at one site, then roll out and hold the gain for 90 days.
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Rolled out to every employee at AutoZone (125,000), PetSmart (50,000+), A.S. Watson and Raley's (20,000) — and at larger retailers we are not permitted to name.
Built for: Retail · Manufacturing · Healthcare · Logistics · Hospitality
What's inside this template
Risks
- The pilot gain fades once attention moves on
- Baseline data is incomplete or inconsistent
- The frontline team resists the new process
Members
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Improvement lead
Runs the project and the rollout.
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Executive sponsor
Agrees the target and makes the pilot go / no-go call.
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Pilot site lead
Runs the pilot on shift and owns the new standard work.
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Data analyst
Baseline, root-cause data and the control plan.
Check ins
- Weekly status update
Milestones
- Charter approved
- Baseline established
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Pilot go / no-go
Roll out only if the pilot beat the baseline and the site team wants to keep the new way of working.
- Rollout starts
- Gain held for 90 days
To-do lists
- Define
- Measure and analyse
- Pilot
- Roll out and sustain
Custom fields
- Phase
- Metric affected
Common use cases
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