Seven Management and Planning Tools
An excerpt of strategic planning tools from The Handbook for Quality Management, Second Edition by Paul Keller and Thomas Pyzdek (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Try serveral pf these tools in our Green Belt XL software.
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USAGE
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Affinity diagram
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Organize ideas into categories, use both sides of the brain by working in silence, work in groups.
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Interrelationship diagraph
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Define how factors in a situation relate to one another.
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Tree diagram
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Analyze a situation by stratifying ideas by increasing level of detail.
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Matrix chart
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Analyze correlation between two related groups of ideas (e.g., whats and hows)
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Matrix data analysis
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Portray correlations of multiple variables to selected important “factors,†e.g., sales of dresses of different designs versus “fit†and “lookâ€Â.
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