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The Government of the United States has a royalty-free government-purpose license to use, duplicate, or disclose the work, in whole or in part and in any manner, and to have or permit others to do so, for government purposes pursuant to the copyright license under the clause at 252.227-7013.  \nFor information about purchasing paper copies of SEI reports, please visit the publications portion of our Web site ([http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/pubweb.html](http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/pubweb.html)).  \nTable of Contents  \nPreface vii  \nAcknowledgments ix  \n1 Introduction 1  \n1.1 Who Should Use This Guide 1  \n1.2 What is “Small” Anyway? 2  \n1.3 Why Process Improvement Matters to Small Settings 3  \n1.3.1 Market Forces 3  \n1.3.2 Internal Forces 3  \n1.3.3 National and Global Forces 3  \n1.4 Why Process Improvement is Challenging for Small Settings 4  \n1.5 Before Starting a Process Improvement Effort 5  \n1.6 What This Guide Is and Isn’t 6  \n1.7 Continuing to Evolve this Field Guide 7  \n1.8 Conventions Used in the Guide 7  \n2 Scenarios 9  \n2.1 Process Champion Scenarios 9  \n2.1.1 Scenario Topics for Process Champions Not Elaborated in Phase 1 9  \n2.1.2 Understanding How You Want New Processes to Work 10  \n2.1.3 Understanding How Processes Currently Work 10  \n2.2 Process Improvement Sponsor Scenarios 11  \n3 IPSS Competencies 13  \n3.1 Introduction to Using the Competencies 13  \n3.1.1 Applying Improvement Life Cycles 13  \n3.1.2 Applying Scenarios: Matching Problems and Solutions 13  \n3.1.3 Your Use Will Change as You Learn and Progress 14  \n3.1.4 Finding and Filling Skill/Knowledge Gaps 15  \n3.2 Building and Sustaining Sponsorship and Ownership 16  \n3.2.1 Introduction 16  \n3.2.2 Seeking Sponsors 16  \n3.2.3 Communicating With and Sustaining Sponsorship of Organizational Leadership 18  \n3.2.4 Being a Sponsor 19  \n3.3 Developing and Measuring Realistic Goals 20  \n3.3.1 Introduction 20  \n3.3.2 Setting Goals and Success Criteria Aligned with Sponsor Objectives 20  \n3.3.3 Understanding the Current State of the Organization 21  \n3.3.4 Defining Process Improvement Measures 24  \n3.4 Developing and Su","cbCaivxLkhGj2aUw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivxLkhGj2aUw","pdf",941484,76,"English","# Preface\n# Acknowledgments\n# 1 Introduction\n## 1.1 Who Should Use This Guide\n## 1.2 What is “Small” Anyway?\n## 1.3 Why Process Improvement Matters to Small Settings\n## 1.4 Why Process Improvement is Challenging for Small Settings\n## 1.5 Before Starting a Process Improvement Effort\n## 1.6 What This Guide Is and Isn’t\n## 1.7 Continuing to Evolve this Field Guide\n## 1.8 Conventions Used in the Guide\n# 2 Scenarios\n## 2.1 Process Champion Scenarios\n## 2.2 Process Improvement Sponsor Scenarios\n# 3 IPSS Competencies\n## 3.1 Introduction to Using the Competencies\n## 3.2 Building and Sustaining Sponsorship and Ownership\n## 3.3 Developing and Measuring Realistic Goals\n## 3.4 Developing and Sustaining a Process Improvement Infrastructure\n## 3.5 Defining/Describing Processes\n## 3.6 Deploying New and Improved Processes\n## 3.7 Determining Improvement Progress\n# Appendix A: SEPG 2008 Presentation on IPSS\n# References/Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"Who is this field guide intended for and how should it be used?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction includes a section on who should use the guide and how to apply its concepts in practice for small settings.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does process improvement matter specifically in small settings, and what makes it challenging?\",\"answer\":\"The guide explains the market, internal, and national/global forces driving process improvement, then details why small environments make improvement more difficult.\"},{\"question\":\"What competency areas does the guide cover for implementing improvements?\",\"answer\":\"The IPSS competencies section covers sponsorship and ownership, realistic goal development and measurement, building an improvement infrastructure, defining and describing processes, deploying improvements, and determining progress.\"}]","Prototype for a Field Guide for Improving Processes in Small Settings | PDF",1789165156,27]