Week

Activity

Learning

Assignment

1

Introductions, context, expectations, Q&A housekeeping, technology

UDE’s: Indicators, causes, symptoms

Breakdown of your company’s UDE

2

Review UDE breakdowns by company

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – 5 WHYS?

Apply RCA  to your company’s UDE breakdown

3

Review RCA’s by company

Pareto Analysis (PA)

Apply PA to your company’s RCA

4

Review PA’s by company

Identifying & Quantifying Alternatives

Create Risk / Reward Portfolio Map (RRPM) for your company

5

Review RRPM’s by company

Decision Making & MVE

Select candidate initiative (CI)

6

Review CI’s by company

Experimental Validation

Designing an experiment for CI

7

Review experiments by company

Metrics & KPI’s

Establish metrics and KPI’s for experiment

8

Company updates and spotlight company #1

Group discussion, Q&A

Continue execution of and data collection from experiment

9

Company updates and spotlight company #2

Group discussion, Q&A

Continue execution of and data collection from experiment

10

Company updates and spotlight company #3

Group discussion, Q&A

Continue execution of and data collection from experiment

11

Company updates and spotlight company #4

Group discussion, Q&A

Continue execution of and data collection from experiment

12

Company updates and spotlight company #5

Group discussion, Q&A

Continue execution of and data collection from experiment

13

Program review and next steps

Group discussion

TBD