How to Select the Right Tool
to improve your next process

Tool Selection Matrix

The Tool Selection Matrix now allows you to use Excel's Filter capabilities based on dozens of filtering criteria — to quickly narrow your search down to the few tools and methods that are likely to be the most useful for whatever it is that you need to do next — wherever you are now on your lean journey.

Video: Tool Selection Matrix

Are you looking for better ways

to define strategic direction? to analyze a process? stabilize it? visualize it? standardize it?

What phase of the PDCA cycle are you in?

Is this an office process? service? production? medical?

You and your team members are likely to greatly expand your awareness of (and competence using) many different time-tested approaches to root cause analysis, problem solving, and decision making.

Each time you turn a new corner

on your lean journey, rather than reaching for one of the few old tired tools that you use for everything, get in the habit to open your Tool Selection Matrix... to...

Expand your knowledge, skills

and process improvement competence to gain new-found comfort as you explore ever-new frontiers and possibilities.

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you can also test drive all 150+ templates.

Visit us at the
ASQ conference

If you will be attending the ASQ World Conference
in Nashville next week,

then please plan to stop by our booth 232

to introduce yourself and see what's new

Visit us in Brazil

If you will be attending O Grande Encontro
in Brazil, May 19-20,

then please plan to stop by our booth

to introduce yourself to our South American partner, Why Consultoria.

There will be many sample documents printed in Portuguese, and you can talk with Luiz about how your team can receive native-language training and consulting for your Portuguese and Spanish speaking team members.

Perhaps forward this to a colleague in Brazil?

Units of Measure

Because the purpose of a value stream is to transform the thing being processed...

it is not uncommon for a single value stream to have teams that work on components that have a unit of measure that is different from the end product or service that gets delivered to the ultimate customer.

Video: Units of Measure

For example

Your customer might purchase a "case" of soda, but your team is making "bottles".

Or your customer might purchase a "wedding event", but your team is making 30 "table settings".

If you are using overly-simplistic value stream mapping software, then everything in the entire value stream must use the same unit of measure.

For example, your team would need to change its thinking to something like "how many cases of bottles do we need to make today?" Or "how many weddings worth of table settings are needed?"

In other words

If you are using over-simplistic value stream mapping software, then it is not uncommon for some teams to simply glaze over as you try to get them to see how their process affects and is affected by your other inter-related upstream and downstream processes.

What if your value stream

mapping software was able to measure everything in the Bottling Department in the unit of measure of "bottles"?

And still ensure that all the math is correct for the bottom-line end-customer deliverable unit of measure of "cases"?

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where our mission is to develop process improvement tools that you won't outgrow.