Posts tagged six sigma tools

Managers and team leaders are right when they suggest that brainstorming is the place to start when trying to find solutions to tough challenges. Unfortunately, many don’t brainstorm correctly or …

Written by Contributing Columnist: David Larsen, PSP, PMP, LSSBB Continuous improvement leaders support a variety of processes, projects, and people. With so many variables interacting and affecting the velocity of …

Written by: David Larsen, PSP, PMP, LSSBB, Contributing Columnist As the leader of a new DMAIC project or continuous improvement initiative, visualizing the process is a key first step to …

A Fishbone Diagram is a visual tool that allows project teams to easily display a list of potential causes of a problem, then break these causes down into increasingly more …

In the past decade, more businesses than ever have emphasized sustainability as a core part of operations. Whether mandated by government regulations or generated from a sense of corporate responsibility …

Project teams use a Six Sigma flowchart to provide a visual representation of the steps, inputs and outputs, events and individual operations that make up a process. By expressing the …

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) provides organizations with a plan to assess and prepare for any risks that can interfere with the company’s goals. These risks can include dangers inherent in …

The Kano Model is a Six Sigma tool that prioritizes the features of a product or service based on how customers view them. Product development teams can weigh the advantages …

A histogram allows you to see the frequency distribution of a data set. It offers an “at a glance” picture of a distribution pattern, charted in specific categories. Histograms are …

The New Year is a great time for celebrating, planning goals for the coming year, making resolutions to meet those goals – and then breaking them by Feb. 1. It’s …