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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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New spin (literally) on an old quality tool

November 21, 2009July 9, 2016 bizpi 6s, 80/20, chart, excel, lean, management, pareto, presentation, quality, Six Sigma, tools

I love the Pareto chart. It’s one of the simplest quality tools, yet one of the most powerful, and underused

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