Question

Regarding the “16 Improvement Strategies”, is it necessary to employ every strategy or do every step prescribed in each strategy? Why?

Answer 1

                                                          16 Improvement Strategies

It is important to employ every strategy to continue process improvement and customer satifaction .

It can be subdivided into:

• Scientific approach
• Improvement needs
• Improving a process

Scientific approach

1. Collect meaningful approach
2. Identify root causes of problems
3. Develop appropriate solutions
4. Plan and make changes

Improvement Needs

1. Identify customer needs
2. Study the use of time
3. Localize recurring problems

Improving A Process

1. Describe a process
2. Develop a standard process
3. Error-proof a process
4. Streamline a process
5. Reduce sources of variation
6. Bring process under statistical control
7. Eliminate waste
8. Clean up and organize the workplace
9. Design experiments to identify relationships