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Prevention not as tough as it seems

September 7, 2010July 9, 2016 bizpi action, analysis, assessment, brainstorming, cadence, effects, failure, fishbone, FMEA, lean, mode, PFMEA, prevention, proactive, risk, Six Sigma

Often times, we ask our clients what their proactive or preventative activity is. Most of the time, we get a

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Don’t “check the box” with soft improvement tools

January 7, 2010July 9, 2016 bizpi cause, communication, diagram, effect, fishbone, lean, map, mapping, networking, process, quality, Six Sigma, soft, stream, team, tools, value, value stream map, VSM

We recently were reminded of a problem that comes up every so often in regards to process improvement tools. The

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