Slaughter Development has published a new case study about a company that decided to adopt a temporary policy to help train new staff members. Increased employee awareness, however, led to a permanent adoption of the change.

In Training Wheels to SOP, we outline the story of a company that transformed workflow with a simple new document:

The team at XYZ Industries ran a fairly efficient warehouse floor, often processing as many as 60 orders per day. When new people were hired for a seasonal rush, the floor manager put together a simple paper artifact to facilitate training. That temporary fix became a major boon to productivity and was adopted as SOP—Standard Operating Procedure. Read on »

Featured Articles are a regular offering from Slaughter Development and provide a more in-depth analysis of methodology engineering at work. Still, as even Dilbert knows, case studies do not replace direct assessment of real-world environments. These documents may provide guidance or comfort, but they can never stand in for conscious, active analysis done by stakeholders and consultants.

If you’d like to learn more about Slaughter Development or if you want to be the topic of a forthcoming featured article, contact us today. We love to help companies improve and capture the essence of change in written form.

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