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A Guide to Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students: Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification, Second Edition
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A Guide to Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students: Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification, Second Edition

by Howard S. Gitlow, Richard Melnyck, David M. Levine
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
13h 53m
English
Pearson
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8. Project Identification and Prioritization: Building a Project Pipeline

What Is the Objective of This Chapter?

The objective of this chapter is to discuss the process used to create the project pipeline at your organization. We walk you through project identification, project screening and scoping, project prioritization and selecting projects, and finally managing the project pipeline. The process of creating and managing the pipeline is typically led by a Process Improvement Executive and senior-level Executive Champions.

Project Identification

The first step in the process is project identification. We have found that potential process improvement projects can come to the Process Improvement Executive, senior level executives, employees, ...

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