Office of Planning and Assurance

Office of Planning and Assessment

OPA assists management with strategic planning, performance assessment, and continuous improvement to support the SLAC mission, plan and agenda. To that end, OPA provides processes and staff to:

  • Coordinate SLAC's strategic planning process.
  • Outline and support the performance assessment process.
  • Understand and present institutional performance to SLAC's leadership.
  • Facilitate contract requirements flow into management systems.
  • Assist line management with key continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Provide project management oversight for key institutional projects.

Director
Craig Ferguson

Administrative Associate
Karissa Leahy

Sites
Website
SharePoint Site

Strategic Planning

"Support process to flow mission, vision, lab plan
 and lab agenda into the organization"

OPA is SLAC's principal means of flowing vision, mission strategy, annual lab plan and lab agenda into the organization and aligning resources to achieve them.

Contact                           
Craig Ferguson    
Sacha Hanigan           

Sites
Website
SharePoint Site

 

Requirements Management

"Provide the process and support to ensure value-added requirements
are identified and flowed into management systems"

The Requirements Management (RM) group facilitates the RM process flow to enable lab-wide compliance with all applicable external requirements, from initial analysis through Management System ownership.

Contact                           
Janet Tulk
James Burtnett
Vickee Flynn             

Sites
SharePoint Site

Performance Assessment

"Provide effective and efficient methods to assess and understand performance and manage issues"

OPA assures the Laboratory Director and the Department of Energy (DOE) SLAC Site Office (SSO) that SLAC programs are safe, secure, adhere to ethical and compliant business practices, meet customer requirements, meet reasonable standards of formality, and meet requirements and standards specified in the contract between Stanford University and the DOE for the operation of SLAC.

OPA also provides analysis and measurements to report progress on lab performance, identify key deficiences, promote operations improvements, and assist line organizations with key systems for process controls and improvements.

Contact                           
Barbara Benotto
Leslie Stepanek 
Mike Weber

Sites
Website  
SharePoint Site

Continuous Improvement

"Partner with our customers to achieve improvements to further
enable effective and efficient delivery of the mission"

Contact                           
Barbara Benotto
 
Rich Poliak
Gregory Calloway

Sites
Website  
SharePoint Site

 


Sample metrics

Here's one way ES&H monitors lab performance by directorate.

Key Metrics Dashboard

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