Designing Strategies to Measure the Impact of Continuous Improvement Initiatives

A concise, decision-focused programme covering improvement impact measurement end to end.

📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Inspection catches problems in improvement impact measurement; it does not prevent them. A quality system for the quality and productivity management capability that exists only for the auditor produces paperwork, not quality. Participants who influence this strand of quality and productivity management without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The programme takes participants through improvement impact measurement end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on the quality and productivity management capability and revise it on evidence. Where the practice within quality and productivity management is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make improvement impact measurement hard in practice. Ambition around this strand of quality and productivity management outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the quality and productivity management capability rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Design the internal audit programme covering improvement impact measurement.

02

Design control plans for improvement impact measurement that detect deviation early.

03

Define the scope and boundaries of improvement impact measurement so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.

04

Build a continuous improvement routine around improvement impact measurement that survives busy periods.

05

Align improvement impact measurement with the wider objectives of the operating process rather than optimising it in isolation.

06

Standardise work in improvement impact measurement without removing necessary judgement.

07

Test the organisation's response to improvement impact measurement under conditions that are less than ideal.

Who Should Attend

01

Finance staff quantifying the cost of quality in improvement impact measurement.

02

Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over improvement impact measurement.

03

Specialists advising senior management on improvement impact measurement.

04

Continuous improvement specialists working on improvement impact measurement.

05

Supplier quality engineers assessing inputs to improvement impact measurement.

06

Training officers building problem-solving capability in improvement impact measurement.

Course Modules

01

Improvement impact measurement: variation, capability and control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Getting other functions to support improvement impact measurement

  • Design the internal audit schedule covering improvement impact measurement.
  • Write standard work for improvement impact measurement with the people who perform it.
  • Identify single points of dependency in improvement impact measurement and reduce them.
  • Link the improvement in improvement impact measurement to a financial figure leadership recognises.

Session 2Benchmarking improvement impact measurement without flattering yourself

  • Establish what evidence demonstrates improvement impact measurement is under control.
  • Measure current variation in improvement impact measurement before attempting improvement.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in improvement impact measurement.
  • Build a control plan for improvement impact measurement identifying what is checked, when and by whom.
02

Improvement impact measurement: benchmarking and continual improvement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading the current state of improvement impact measurement honestly

  • Verify that improvements to improvement impact measurement held six months later.
  • Agree what will be standardised in improvement impact measurement and what will not.
  • Choose productivity measures for improvement impact measurement that do not reward shortcuts.
  • Define quality for improvement impact measurement in terms the customer would recognise.

Session 2Sustaining the gain on improvement impact measurement after the project ends

  • Record what was learned when improvement impact measurement did not go as planned.
  • Verify six months later that changes to improvement impact measurement have held.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about improvement impact measurement.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when improvement impact measurement underperforms.
03

Improvement impact measurement: cost of poor quality

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Comparing improvement impact measurement with recognised practice

  • Set sampling for improvement impact measurement on statistical grounds, not on habit.
  • Identify the few causes responsible for most defects in improvement impact measurement.
  • Apply structured root cause analysis to the top defect in improvement impact measurement.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether improvement impact measurement is improving.

Session 2Control plans for improvement impact measurement that catch problems early

  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for improvement impact measurement.
  • Reduce the variation in how improvement impact measurement is carried out between teams.
  • Assemble certification evidence for improvement impact measurement as work proceeds, not before the audit.
  • Train the team handling improvement impact measurement in the problem-solving method being used.
04

Improvement impact measurement: defining quality in measurable terms

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Removing steps from improvement impact measurement that add no value

  • Remove steps in improvement impact measurement that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Name a single owner for each element of improvement impact measurement.
  • Map the process behind improvement impact measurement by walking it, not by describing it.
  • Benchmark improvement impact measurement against a comparable operation and record the gap.

Session 2Mapping improvement impact measurement as it is done, not as it is written

  • Set the review cadence that sustains gains in improvement impact measurement.
  • Draft the minimum viable control plan for improvement impact measurement.
  • Establish the boundary of improvement impact measurement and record what sits outside it.
  • Prepare the summary of improvement impact measurement that senior management will read.

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USD1,250
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  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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