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Treasure Chest of Six Sigma Growth Methods, Tools, and Best Practices: A Desk Reference Book for Innovation and Growth
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Treasure Chest of Six Sigma Growth Methods, Tools, and Best Practices: A Desk Reference Book for Innovation and Growth

by Lynne Hambleton
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate
864 pages
25h 9m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Treasure Chest of Six Sigma Growth Methods, Tools, and Best Practices: A Desk Reference Book for Innovation and Growth

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KJ Analysis

What Question(s) Does the Tool or Technique Answer?

What matters to your customers? What are the natural groupings, categories, or affinities of a large number of topics, ideas, and quotations, and how can you best translate the verbal input into requirements?

A KJ Analysis helps you to

• Discover and clarify customer requirements

• Organize and categorize large volumes of language-based data (that is, text or verbal input)

• Show a “parent-child” relationship between more detailed ideas to their higher-order theme, also called Affinity groupings

• Translate the input into customer requirements

Alternative Names and Variations

This tool is also known as

• Affinity diagram or chart

Variations on the tool include

• House of Quality ...

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