Operating value Planning worksheet

Monthly value-review worksheet and completed example

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Field Blank worksheet Fictional Harborline month
Workflow, version and period ______ Order intake, illustrative release, one example month.
Eligible cases ______ 1,000
Attempted cases ______ 800
Accepted at cutoff ______ 760
Unresolved at cutoff ______ 40
Baseline cohort and method ______ 800 comparable cases × 12 minutes, synthetic assumption.
Baseline case effort ______ 160 hours
Current case effort, including review and rework ______ 66 hours 40 minutes across all 800 attempts.
Additional recurring operating effort ______ 20 hours, without double-counting case work.
Provisional released capacity ______ 73 hours 20 minutes; unresolved work still needs reconciliation.
Capacity use ______ Proposed reassignment to backlog work; not verified.
Realized financial benefit and evidence ______ Unverified. No cash-savings claim.
Current case labor at US$45/hour ______ US$3,000
Additional operating labor ______ US$900
Technology and usage costs ______ US$900
Period operating cost ______ US$4,800
Operating cost per accepted case ______ US$6.32, rounded; denominator 760.
Deployment-cost allocation ______ US$600: assumed US$7,200 spread over 12 months.
Cost including deployment allocation ______ US$5,400; US$7.11 per accepted case.
Quality and case-mix limits ______ Baseline comparability requires validation; 40 open cases need completion review.
Next decision and owner ______ Order lead to resolve open cases and review effort before expansion.

Calculation notes: Adoption = 800/1,000 = 80%. Acceptance at cutoff = 760/800 = 95%. Capacity equivalent = 73⅓ × US$45 = US$3,300; this is not cash saved. The 200 unattempted cases are excluded from the effort comparison. Follow-up effort and later completions must be reconciled to the original cohort. Future corrections may change the reported result.

Decision box: Continue / Correct / Expand / Pause. Record the evidence, accountable owner and next review date.

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