Randy Clark - a Black Belt and PowerSteering Software's Director of Six Sigma - shares best practice advice for how Process Excellence leaders can guarantee repeated victory with project replication, the process of taking successful projects and duplicating the results in other locations or business areas. View the slides to learn valuable tips to help your organization repeat the projects proven to yield financial touchdowns, significantly increase project completion percentages, and eliminate time consuming and costly fumbles.

1. Make Your Six Sigma Team Repeat
Champs with Project Replication
Featured Presenter:
Randy Clark
Black Belt & Director of Six Sigma
PowerSteering Software
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2. Sample Customers

3. Make Your Team Repeat Champs
with Project Replication
Randy Clark, Director of Six Sigma
Feb 15, 2012

4. Growing up in the NFL

5. Dolphins 1973

6. Not Quite the Hall of Fame for Me

7. Football & CI
The Big Y is to Win
Measure, Analyze, & Improve
– Player Statistics
– Film Analysis
• Why Did You Coach the Way You Did?
– “That’s the Way Shula Did It”
– Stealing Shamelessly
– Replication
• As CI Professionals How do We Take
Advantage of Replication?

8. The Basics of Replication
Produce Capture
Use
Pull
Push

9. Pull Strategies
Make It Easy For People to Search Out
and Leverage Knowledge.
• Capture
– Database
Projects
Artifacts / Documents
Benchmarking Findings
Value Stream Mapping & Analysis
– Characterize
Best Practices

10. Characterize
Tag Your Projects and Documents…
• Type, Location, Process Addressed,
Stakeholders Affected, Supporting Goals &
Strategies
Designate Best Practices
• Implement a Process to Nominate and
Approve Best Practices
• Communicate / Recognize
– “Three of my projects and 12 of my Document Deliverables
are Rated Best Practices”

11. Use the Knowledge
Search
• Standard Project Templates Start With a Search Reminder

12. Search for Best Practices
Manual Search

13. Community of Practice Forums
On-Line Bulletin Boards & Discussion Threads

14. The Basics of Replication
Produce Capture
Use
Pull
Push

15. Push Replication
Faster execution and
3x more Savings
w/ Replication
This Location Saves $
Identify &
Assess
Candidates
Push
Approved
Candidates
to other
Locations
Track
Financial
Benefits

16. Identify Replication Opportunities
Indicate Project’s
Replication Potential
Identify Processes Addressed
To Match Location Processes
Track Opportunities on
Dashboards

17. Replicate the Project
1. Select “Replicate”
2. Select Each Location
Replicates the Project
to Each Location as a
“Proposed” Project.

18. Replicated Project
New Project Name is
Changed…
Location Owner Notified
of New Opportunity
Includes a Reference to the Original Project. Provides Easy Access to
Documents and Relevant Information from Original.

19. #1 Failure Mode
Solution: Process of Visibility & Accountability

20. Follow For Implementation
Monitor Status of all Replicas.
Why Was This Opportunity
Rejected?

21. Drive Accountability
Drilling into the “Rejected” Project we See that this
Project has a “Equipment Compatibility” Issue

22. Report
Track, Report,
and Manage
Key
Replication
Metrics

23. Inject Replication into Key Processes
CI Process Inventory
Project Selection Chartering Project Execution Status Reporting
Mentoring
Leadership Management / Training
Black Belt Selection Black Belt Management Repatriate
Training
Communication / Reporting
Tools & Equipment
Replication
HR Policies Compensation Recognition
Reporting, Backfill, Office Space

24. Replication During Selection
Target Zone

25. Replication in Global Manufacturing
25 locations ‐ 11 countries
Executive mandate to replicate success
100% increase in projects replicating
PowerSteering library
captures best practices
identifies replication candidates

26. Scoring with Replication
Objective:
• Leverage Knowledge and Success to Produce
Results in Multiple Locations.
– Increase Benefits, Reduce Cycle Time
Process:
• Capture and Characterize Knowledge
– Provide for Pull Opportunities
• Identify Projects with Replication Potential
• Push the Project to Multiple Locations as
Solutions to Be Implemented
• Track and Report on Implementation
• Inject Replication into Key Processes
– Project Selection
– Training

27. Questions?
Randy Clark
203‐228‐4398
rlcark@psteering.com

28. Sample Customers