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The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams
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The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams

by Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, Roland Cavanagh
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
9h 43m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams

Chapter 16Power Toolsfor “Improve”Getting Better and Better

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PERHAPS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE in Improve is to keep from feeling a bit like Jekyll and Hyde as you bounce back and forth between creativity and practicality. The tools described in this chapter will help ease that transition by guiding your team both through creative brainstorming and detailed planning. The chapter covers the same steps described in Chapter 15:

1. Generate creative solution ideas.

2. Cook the raw ideas.

3. Select a solution.

4. Pilot test and implement full-scale.

Some of the tools you’ll need to complete your Improve work have been covered earlier in this book and are ...

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