1. Getting from Idea to Implementation Tactical Planning
Improve - IV:
Getting from Idea to Implementation
Tactical Planning
Is it Working? How Soon will You Know?
Control Planning
We’re through to the “C” in DMAIC. Tactics are the implementation part of “improve” and “control” is the “C”. The two go hand in glove and are together in the work booklet accordingly.
John Conway – PRO-DAIRY

2. Implementation Plan for ____________________Project
Date Formulated: ________________
People Involved: _________________
_________________
Achieving the goals of a planned project requires a sequence of actions (tactics). Assuring the actions taken are actually leading to the goal requires proof (control points) along the way.
This project plan lays side-by-side tactical and control components to help meet your SMART* goal. While most control points may pertain to the goal that has been set, you may find important tactics also demanding control. Additions to the initial plan are commonplace, leading to a growing document that seconds as a communications tool to keep everyone on track.
*Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timed

4. Is it Working? Measured Impacts
Control Planning

6. …Back to Your Farm or Case Farm one last time
Using your “winning” improvement in the decision grid, take it for a spin through the tactical and control plan template. Naturally you are making most of this up. But stick with it for a few lines so you can see how one tactic leads to another, and that it’s definitely worth getting on paper!
Likewise with control… it’s not always as easy as it would seem to answer “is it working at least as well as expected” early on.