Assignment Instructions
Complete a Gemba Walk in your place of employment and document your observations.
Refer to the SWOT analysis you conducted to select the areas in need of improvement and narrow the list of places to conduct your Gemba Walk. While completing your walk, look for ways to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process.
Write a 2- to 3-page report on your observations of your Gemba. Include 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 on and why?)
• Gemba observations
• What was the goal of your Gemba?
• Where did you go?
• What did you observe?
• Who did you observe?
• Give a preliminary analysis of your observations.
• List three short-term opportunities and one long-term opportunity to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process.
Assignment
Complete a SWOT Analysis of your organization.
Use the SWOT Analysis Worksheet and complete the following steps:
1. Complete a preliminary walk around the organization to scan the environment for strengths, weaknesses, potential opportunities, and potential threats (e.g., workflows, products, personnel, processes).
2. Follow up with additional research that may provide clarity on elements that you are hesitant or indecisive to list.
3. Review your systems Thinking Diagram from Week Two and determine if there are any details you can add or adjustments you can make to enhance your understanding of the organizational system.
4. Write an objective for your SWOT analysis.
5. List the organization's strengths, weaknesses, potential opportunities, and potential threats.
6. Select the items that should be prioritized.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.