Great ideas turn into action by first creating a plan of action. There are many decision-making methods than can be used. The SDLC is an excellent way to implement a plan and help make decisions. Brainstorming and using other decision-making tools can also help an idea to grow into action. There are a lot of ways to end an excellent plan. Poor decision making skills and mismanagement can destroy any hopes of a plan reaching its goal. This was true in our scenario. The problem with the employees being in the wrong training class is a good example of a great idea being halted. The remarkable idea to have the business officers decide which classes their employees needed did not work because they were not aware of what the classes offered. Nor did they know how much of those classes would be beneficial to the users. The end result was that this idea was obviously not followed through to the planning stage, or if it was it was not handled properly. The idea did produce same action in that the employees were trained, but in the wrong class. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plan includes six phases. These six phases are The Preliminary Investigation Phase, The Analysis Phase, The Design Phase, The Implementation Phase, and The Maintenance Phase. (1) If this plan had been followed there would have probably been much different results. While evaluation is the one responsibility most often pushed to the side, it should be considered before any program implementation. Basic evaluation plans should help to address the following questions: 1)Was the purpose of the implementation accomplished? 2)Did the implementation operate as planned? 3)What outcomes were achieved? The following things are important in planning for any... ... middle of paper ... ...s, help the users, correct errors, serve your customers. Allow time for errors. Always have contingency plans. What if the go-live fails? Make sure you have a way to regress to the legacy system to be able to function properly as a business. Consider going live by either pilot startup or parallel startup. A pilot startup means you would be running SAP for one group of end-users at a time opposed to all end-users at once; parallel startup suggests running both SAP and the old legacy system for a measure period to compare, reconcile and acclimate SAP into the working environment. Once everyone is confident about the new data warehouse then the old system can be gradually phased out, thus reducing the risk of mistakes and major complications. Bibliography http://www.muskalipman.com/VBObjects/SDLC.pdf W. K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook (1998) at 97.
Steve define the problem as the Costco cashiers were not being productive. Detailing the cashier process was making the checkout counter moved more slowly according to Costco’s standard. Steve wants ideas in making the checkout move more swiftly. LaBlanc defined the problem as assistance needs to be more involved in the training of the employee. LaBlanc wanted the feeling of contributing as a team or team involvement. LaBlac generated the ideas and Heller implemented those ideas.
Planning included reaching out to other health organizations, objectives, and goals of health fair were established. The implementation includes getting volunteers, set up for the health fair. The evaluation of the process occurred throughout the implementation and changes were made as needed. The evaluation will be completed by gathering information from health booth to determine the number of participants. Review vendor and participant evaluations about the health fair including how they heard about the health fair, ratings of booths and suggestions for improvements. Record everything to determine changes. Reflection on past experiences and what worked and did not work.
1. How might you evaluate the CPOE implementation process at University Health Care System? Give examples of different methods or strategies you might employ.
8. Identify methods for evaluating outcomes of your plan and next steps/revisions of the plan, depending on various possible
Enterprise systems implementation projects are considered high risk. Tektronix had never progressed beyond the requirements analysis stage in five prior attempts to replace its order management system, so it would seem that its Oracle enterprise system implementation project was astronomically high risk. Tektronix used a number of methods to mitigate and manage the implementation risks. Clearly and thoroughly describe the major risks and critique the company’s methods for mitigating and managing the risks. Your critiques should include strengths and weaknesses of the company’s approach
A proclamation by a CEO that “we are going to become a learning organization” will likely be met with collective eye rolling and wonderings of, “What workshop did he attend last week?” Indeed, many employees are so accustomed to these management “initiatives-of-the-month” that seeing any results from such a managerial decree is extremely unlikely.
The system development life cycle, also know as the SDLC, is the process of designing and developing a system or software to meet certain requirements. (“System development life,”). This cycle involves many different phases, in which the system is planned, analyzed, designed, implemented, and tested. There are five major phases in the system development life cycle: systems planning, systems analysis, systems design, systems implementation, and systems security and support. Each of these phases has a particular responsibility and certain tasks are perfumed in each phase.
The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) consists of phases used in developing a piece of software. It is the plan of how to develop and maintain software, and when necessary, replace that software. In 2007 during my hospital’s transition to a new software system, I was fortunate enough to be included in the process. I did not get involved until the implementation phase, but from then on, until now, I remain very active in the process. I decided to highlight the Waterfall Model of SDLC. The Waterfall Model is a “sequential development process” with each phase continuing in a line (McGonigle and Mastrian, 2012, p. 205).
Williams, (1997) identified four steps to system planning. Earl (1989) proposed five alternate strategy frameworks which project managers should consider when deciding how the system will enhance the business function. Standard business strategy methods are used to identify such opportunities by using: value chains, application searching and information analysis (Earl 1989).
The development planning process “refers to a system to retain and motivate employees by identifying and helping to meet their development needs” (Noe, 2013). This process can be used in the internal hiring process. When brining internal employees into the supervisor training program this process will motivate the employees so they will continue to grow within the company. The morale of the overall company will improve when employees are chosen internally for the supervisor training program. This process has four steps to it; they are self-assessment, reality check, goal setting, and action planning. Self-assessment identifies the improvement that is needed from the employee. The company can provide testing that shows the strengths, weaknesses, interest, and values of the employee. Reality check is when the employee determines which of the needs can be developed realistically. The company can create a performanc...
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C & C grocery store currently operates under a goal approach. They were committed to customer service and satisfaction. This approach provided the grocery chain with the profitability and growth they strived to obtain. The stores operative goals were attained and the chain had over 200 stores in operation. For years overall performance for C & C was excellent and came with ease. Unfortunately employee development and innovation and change weren't a top priority and it began to show. To remain successful C & C had to outsource and get advice from a team of consultants. The team dissected the company from top to bottom and advised the chain to implement an internal approach to go along with the goal approach. Implementing the internal approach will give the store managers full control of their stores which they do not currently possess. The store managers should be knowledgeable in all areas of the store to be able to fully communicate with staff. It was difficult for the district managers to give each store location the time and attention they needed when they were responsible for several other stores. Giving store managers more responsibility was a terrific idea of the consultants because the store managers have more day to day customer and employee interaction and could better assist needs. C & C was in desperate need of providing employee training and development. Cross training is beneficial for company as well as employees. Employees get the opportunity to learn other job positions and have the ability for advancement opportunities within the company. The company benefits from cross training because it provides flexibility if a store is short staffed, and it provides empowerment. A store full of happy employees from mana...
... idea and were clueless as to how to run that idea to its full potential.
...ce if their ideas are being accepted by the top management. A system of creative suggestions not only stressed on continuous improvement but it also give importance in identifying problem sources and eliminates waste so that organizational performance can be improved.
... Hicks pointed out that a process should be in place “to evaluate implementation and performance” (Hicks, 2000). Performance should be reevaluated on a periodic basis to evaluate the effectiveness of the solutions executed. If performance is within the acceptable area of the defined benchmarks then the solutions executed should continue. If performance is below the acceptable benchmarks the solutions plan should be reevaluated and adapted as needed.