In Lean Thinking, Daniel Jones and James Womack lay out 5 principles of Lean manufacturing. This is a video term from our Continuous Improvement Companion, available at www.leandictionary.com.
The 11 C’s of Lean Leadership provide a listing of the characteristics that are important for a Lean leader to possess.
The 7 Basic Tools of Quality (or 7 QC Tools) is a collection of data analysis and problem solving tools used in continuous improvement.
They include:
* Cause and effect diagram (or Ishikawa diagram or fishbone diagram)
* Control charts
* Pareto charts
* Scatter diagram
* Histogram
* Check shee...
The 9-Square is a prioritization basic tool for choosing the best project to work on. Simply create a grid with easy, medium, and hard on one axis, and low impact, medium impact, and high impact on the other.
Place your projects on the grid, and the most valuable projects to work on will jump out...