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Ready by the Ticket, Not by the Rack

Designing and Piloting a Dashboard That Scores a Dry Cleaner's Promised Ready-By Time Against Its Actual Call-Back Time

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement designs and pilots a retrofit compliance dashboard that scores a dry cleaner's printed ready-by promise against its actual customer call-back time. Across a six-week, eight-site deployment, mean drift narrowed at most sites, and a covered-screen control arm found the narrowing held whether or not staff could see the score.

AuthorsRenke Sabel, Marit Osayande, Mirela Hanke
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.e8o4qs
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_e8o4qs,
  author       = {Renke Sabel and Marit Osayande and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {Ready by the Ticket, Not by the Rack: Designing and Piloting a Dashboard That Scores a Dry Cleaner's Promised Ready-By Time Against Its Actual Call-Back Time},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.e8o4qs},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-auditing-a-dry-e8o4qs/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}