ADLI: A Short Explainer

ADLI is the architecture that helps transform our strategic ideas into a meaningful, comprehensive plan for continuous organizational improvement.

ADLI, an acronym for Approach, Deployment, Learning, and Integration, will allow process owners to identify and create timely, measurable objectives for their departments/areas. Those assembled objectives will help lay the foundation for the University’s broader Strategic Plan.

“Approach” refers to:

• the methods used to accomplish the process
• the appropriateness of the methods to the Item requirements and the organization’s operating environment
• the effectiveness of your use of the methods
• the degree to which the approach is repeatable and based on reliable data and information (i.e., systematic)

“Deployment” refers to the extent to which

• your approach is applied in addressing Item requirements relevant and important to your organization
• your approach is applied consistently
• your approach is used (executed) by all appropriate work units

“Learning” refers to

• refining your approach through cycles of evaluation and improvement
• encouraging breakthrough change to your approach through innovation
• sharing refinements and innovations with other relevant work units and processes in your organization

“Integration” refers to the extent to which

• your approach is aligned with your organizational needs identified in the Organizational Profile and other Process Items
• your measures, information, and improvement systems are complementary across processes and work units
• your plans, processes, results, analyses, learning, and actions are harmonized across processes and work units to support organization-wide goals