Choose one to answer 1 Discuss the Kan Model as it relates t

Choose one to answer:

1. Discuss the Kan Model as it relates to must haves / delighters and satisfaction / dissatisfaction.

2. Discuss how delighters tend to migrate over time.

Provide an example of a \"delighter\" and a \"must have\" from

(1) your personal life and

(2) your work or school life.

How are organizations using Six Sigma as a leadership development tool or pipeline?

3. Discuss the importance of strategic alignment.

How can a goal tree be used to achieve strategic alignment?

Assume that your organization has a goal to reduce inventories—develop three strategies to support this goal and two projects to support each ot the strategies (six projects in all).

Populate your answers on a goal tree.

4. Describe Taguchi\'s thinking about the difference between the loss associated with striving to be \"between specifications\" versus trying to achieve the target.

Solution

3. The policies and processes of an organization must all support the same goal. This is called strategic alignment. When all the policies and processes are directed at one single goal, it leads to less wastages of efforts and help improves the efficiency of the organization.
A goal tree helps the management to see the alignment of all the efforts. Action is taken to ensure that the efforts not aligned with the effort above in the tree are corrected and aligned properly.
TeamIndus has a mission of landing a rocket on the moon.
Goal: Reduce Inventory

1. Strategy: Increase sales
Project 1: Better sales training
Project 2: Innovative marketing

2. Strategy: Reduction in production
Project 1: JIT implementation
Project 2: Improve forecasting accuracy

3.Strategy: Get rid off excess inventory
Project 1: Donation
Project 2: Seconday market identification