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RD Work Interface Management Problems Diagnosis and Solutions

Basic Information

Project Name	RD Work Interface Management Problems Diagnosis and Solutions.
Customer Industry	Photonics components.
Customer Name	Optimax Photonics Technology (due to service contract's confidential clause, customer's real name is withheld).
Department	RD business unit.
Members	RD managers in various departments, totally 15 people.
Period	8 weeks, 4 consulting hours per week.

Background

Company recently merged, and restructured RD business unit's human resources organization and operations method. This caused major interface problems with overseas sales units and China manufacturing units. There were many operational communication problems. General manager specially designated RD managers to form a task force team to diagnose problems, and propose viable actions to improve RD work interface management efficiency.

Project Objectives

Objective and effective diagnosis of interface management root problems, causes, conflicts effects, and priorities rank.
Propose a viable improvement plan; including solution steps, methods, schedule, budget, human resources plan, execution, monitoring, control etc.
Improve RD managers' problems diagnosis and improvement planning ability.
Increase RD managers' understanding and agreement of problems realities; and increase will and commitment towards solutions.

Deliverables and Sign-off Standards

Main Deliverables

Work Deliverables

Sign-off Standard

RD interface management problems diagnosis report.
RD interface management solutions recommendation report.

Work Plan Deliverables:

Guide work plan construction, including: teams building plan, consulting units work contents and schedule plan, deliverables review plan, teams results presentation plan etc.

Work Execution Deliverables:

Problems diagnosis and review report.
Solutions action plan and review report.

Work Monitoring and Closure Deliverables:

Team results presentations.
Teams performance assessment reports.

Problems diagnosis report assessment form.
Solutions action plan report assessment form.

Expected Benefits and Assessment Method

Stage	Expected Stage Benefits	Assessment Method
1. Problems Diagnosis Stage	Managers are familiar with problems diagnosis and decision making techniques and tools; and are able to produce concrete and effective diagnosis reports and improvement plans.	Consulting units results presentation assessment form. Deliverables review form.
2. Solutions Action Stage	Managers are able to execute solutions plans, and achieve outstanding results.	Improvement plan stage execution status and performance tracking report. Project closure review report.

Consulting Work Brief

Consultant's Work	Customer Project Team's Work
Assist in building improvement team. Draw up consulting work and schedule plan. Draw-up deliverables sign-off quality standards and milestones. Teach problems diagnosis and improvement plan related tools and techniques. Guide diagnosis report and improvement action plan report construction. Assist in presentation materials preparation and execution.	Assign suitable project sponsor and project team members. Execute actual problems diagnosis research, analysis and reports preparation. Execute solutions action plan preparation. Complete deliverables according to stipulations. Results presentation and review.

Execution and Follow-on Work

Consulting Results	According to contract stipulations, finish project to required time, quality and scope.
Follow-on Consulting Work	RD work interface improvement action plan execution and control.
Customer Feedback	Customer is very satisfied with execution results, and wish to continue cooperating in next stage's improvement plan execution consulting work.

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