Six Sigma: Proposed Project Template

Product/Process Impacted

Electronic Filing System

Business Unit and Location

President's Office

Project Candidate Submitted By

Tracee Post

Telephone Number

806.651.2101

Champion who reviewed

Bryan Glenn

Telephone Number

806.651.2105

Start Date

01.16.13

Element

Description

1. Process/Product:

The process in which

opportunity exists

2. Project Description:

Describe the project's purpose

and scope

3. Objectives:

What improvement is targeted

and what will be the impact?

Team Charter
Elimination of paper filing system by transitioning into an electronic filing system.
Reduce cost of doing business and improve work performance by implementing an
electronic filing system.
Metrics
Metric 1
Metric 2

Baseline
materials cost
time measurement

Defects/category N/A
4. Business results:

What do you want to achieve?

What is the anticipated
improvement in business
performance and when do you
expect it?

05.22.13

Target Completion Date

Goal
save money
save time;
improve
accuracy;
improve
maintenanc
e
N/A

Units
paper
minutes

N/A

Forecasted Cost of Six Sigma Project

Estimate:

Cost

labor costs of project; software purchase, if neeeded

TBD

Total Cost of Project

TBD

Annual Savings from Six Sigma Project

Payback Projected payback in months

Who are the final customers,
what benefit will they see, and
what are their most critical
Who are the full time team
6. Proposed Team Members
members and any expert
consultants?
Level of Support Required Yellow, Green, Black, Master
and who?
7. Schedule:
D - Define
M - Measurement
A - Analysis
I - Improve
C - Control
5. Benefit to External
Customers:

8. Support Required:
9. Champion Signature

10/29/2001

Will you need any special

capabilities, hardware, etc?
By signing the Charter I agree
to support the project thru
available resources and
personnel from concept to
completion.

Savings
Estimate:
funding; save money by reducing cost of copying materials used
TBD
work performance; save time in and accuracy of finding items,
improve maintenance of records retention schedule
TBD
Annual Savings of Project
TBD
TBD
TBD
Office of the President; improving efficiency tracking and filing documents; improving
maintenance of records retention schedule; and creating office space (removing filing
cabinets)
Tracee Post; Sherri McIlroy; Dana Miller; Beth Lauterbach; Wes Hicks; Bryan Glenn

Black Belt, Denese Skinner; Master Black Belt, Bryan Glenn

Project Start
"D" Define
"M" Completion
"A" Completion
"I" Completion
"C" Completion
Project Completion

01.16.13
03.05.13
03.26.13
04.17.13
05.08.13
05.29.13

I.T. expertise

Tracee Post, Champion

President O'Brien, Supervisor

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