{"id":25586,"date":"2023-07-28T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/mha-505-week-4-summative-assessment-gemba-walk-and-opportunities-for-improvement\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:33:18","slug":"mha-505-week-4-summative-assessment-gemba-walk-and-opportunities-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/mha-505-week-4-summative-assessment-gemba-walk-and-opportunities-for-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA\/505 WEEK 4: Summative Assessment: Gemba Walk and Opportunities for Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now that you have completed your SWOT Analysis,&nbsp;<strong>select<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>analyze<\/strong>&nbsp;the areas in need of improvement, and&nbsp;<strong>narrow down<\/strong>&nbsp;the list of places to do your Gemba walk.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use<\/strong>&nbsp;your SWOT analysis to focus your Gemba walk.&nbsp;Identify and&nbsp;analyze&nbsp;weaknesses and threats to review during your walk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While&nbsp;completing&nbsp;your walk,&nbsp;<strong>look&nbsp;<\/strong>for ways to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write<\/strong>&nbsp;a 750-word&nbsp;Opportunities for&nbsp;Improvement&nbsp;Recommendation&nbsp;report&nbsp;for management&nbsp;on your observations&nbsp;and recommendations from&nbsp;your Gemba&nbsp;walk, based on your SWOT analysis from Week 3.&nbsp;Complete&nbsp;the following in your report:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include a summary of the organization (e.g.,&nbsp;products or services, mission,&nbsp;and vision).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Provide context (where did you focus your Gemba,&nbsp;and why?).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Explain how you utilized your SWOT analysis to focus your Gemba walk.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>List your&nbsp;Gemba&nbsp;observations:&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>What was the goal of your Gemba?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Where did you go?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>What did you observe?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Who did you observe?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Prepare&nbsp;an&nbsp;analysis of your observations.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>List key takeaways, providing evidence for each.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Choose&nbsp;1&nbsp;long-term and&nbsp;3&nbsp;short-term opportunities to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process&nbsp;within the organization.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cite<\/strong>&nbsp;any references that support your work (e.g.,&nbsp;trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Now that you have completed your SWOT Analysis,&nbsp;select&nbsp;and&nbsp;analyze&nbsp;the areas in need of improvement, and&nbsp;narrow down&nbsp;the list of places to do your Gemba walk.&nbsp;&nbsp; Use&nbsp;your SWOT analysis to focus your Gemba walk.&nbsp;Identify and&nbsp;analyze&nbsp;weaknesses and threats to review during your walk.&nbsp; While&nbsp;completing&nbsp;your walk,&nbsp;look&nbsp;for ways to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[239],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}