Use your SWOT analysis( its attached ) to focus your Gemba walk. Identify and analyze weaknesses and threats to review during your walk.
While completing your walk, look for ways to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process.
Write a 750-word Opportunities for Improvement Recommendation report for management on your observations and recommendations from your Gemba walk, based on your SWOT analysis from Week 3. Complete the following in your report:
Include a summary of the organization (e.g., products or services, mission, and vision).
Provide context (where did you focus your Gemba, and why?).
Explain how you utilized your SWOT analysis to focus your Gemba walk.
List your Gemba observations:
What was the goal of your Gemba? to determine whats the disconnect. there is a delay from when items are delivered to when they are actually received in the system.
Where did you go? the shipphing an receiving dept
What did you observe? the process that takes place when material comes in
Who did you observe? the shipping and receiving employees
Prepare an analysis of your observations.
List key takeaways, providing evidence for each.
Choose 1 long-term and 3 short-term opportunities to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process within the organization.