Summary Table of the Implementation Process
The following table summarises the type of activities that might take the organisation through the five stages of change. For costs please visit the example plans provided.
| From Pre-awarness to Awareness |
- Attendance at annual DLN conference
- Attendance at "Challenging our Paradigms" workshops
- Membership of various learning groups
- Reading of Articles etc.
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| From Awareness to Knowledge |
- Membership of CEO group
- Attendance at evening training courses
- Videos, Audio Tapes, and reading - see bibliography
- Review of this web page
- 2 hour workshop for member organisations
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| From Knowledge to Implementation |
- Identifying with the benefits of creating a learning organisation
- 2 day training course - Opening our minds to new possibilities
- Researching present culture of enterprise
- Review of findings of research project
- Offsite workshop in context of aim, values and mission
- Decision to implement
- Appointment of staff member responsible for project
- Development of plan
- Review and acceptance of plan
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| Implementation |
- The assumption that plan identifies improvement projects
- Half day workshop with those involved in improvement projects.
- Recording of the system identified in the project in a deployment flowmap
- The formation and facilitation of improvement groups
- The design of a learning system
- Determining a system of measurement for the system being studied
- The collection and analysis of data
- Quarterly review of project by CEO
- Quarterly strategy meetings with Senior Executives to review underlying assumptions
- Continuation above process, project by project
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| Maintenance |
- Continuation of quarterly strategy meetings
- Continued expansion of improvement groups
- Continued attention to learning system
- Auditing of existing systems
- Training in improvement tools, dialogue, and SPC
- Learning from other members of the DLN network
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