Seven Management and Planning Tools

Seven Management and Planning Tools

The Seven Management and Planning Tools have their roots in Operations Research work done after World War II and the Japanese "Total Quality Control" (TQC) research. In 1979 the book "Seven New Quality Tools for Managers and Staff" was published and in 1983 was translated into english.

The seven tools include:

# Affinity Diagram (KJ Method)
# Interrelationship Diagraph (ID)
# Tree Diagram
# Prioritization Matrix
# Matrix Diagram
# Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC)
# Activity Network Diagram

Affinity Diagram

This tool takes large amounts of disorganized data and information and enables one to organize it into groupings based on natural relationships. It was created in the 1960s by Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita.

Interrelationship Diagraph

This tool displays all the interrelated cause-and-effect relationships and factors involved in a complex problem and describes desired outcomes. The process of creating an interrelationship diagraph helps a group analyze the natural links between different aspects of a complex situation.

Tree Diagram

This tool is used to break down broad categories into finer and finer levels of detail. It can map levels of details of tasks that are required to accomplish a goal or task. It can be used to break down broad general subjects into finer and finer levels of detail. Developing the tree diagram helps one move their thinking from generalities to specifics.

Prioritization Matrix

This tool is used to prioritize items and describe them in terms of weighted criteria. It uses a combination of tree and matrix diagraming techniques to do a pair-wise evalutaion of items and to narrow down options to the most desired or most effective.

Matrix Diagram

This tool shows the relationship between items. At each intersection a relationship is either absent or present. It then gives information about the relationship, such as its strength, the roles played by various individuals or measurements. Six differently shaped matrices are possible: L, T, Y, X, C and roof-shaped, depending on how many groups must be compared.

Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC)

A useful way of planning is to break down tasks into a hierarchy, using a Tree Diagram. The PDPC extends the tree diagram a couple of levels to identify risks and countermeasures for the bottom level tasks. Different shaped boxes are used to highlight risks and identify possible countermeasures (often shown as 'clouds' to indicate their uncertain nature). The PDPC is similar to the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in that both identify risks, consequences of failure, and contingency actions; the FMEA also rates relative risk levels for each potential failure point.

Activity Network Diagram

This tool is used to plan the appropriate sequence or schedule for a set of tasks and related subtasks. It is used when subtasks must occur in parallel. The diagram enables one to determine the critical path (longest sequence of tasks). (See also PERT diagram.)

References

* Brassard, M. (1996) The Memory Jogger Plus+. ISBN 1-879364-83-2.
* [http://www.asq.org/learn-about-quality/new-management-planning-tools/overview/overview.html Seven New Management and Planning Tools]

External links

* [http://www.asq.org/index.html American Society for Quality] - official Web site
* [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Engineering/CIS/Sloan/web/es130/quality/newtool.htm The 'New' Tools ] from Vanderbilt University


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Seven Management and Planning Tools — Die Seven Management and Planning Tools (deutsch: Sieben Management und Planungswerkzeuge bzw. Sieben neue Qualitätsmanagement Werkzeuge) sind eine erweiterte Sammlung von Methoden der Qualitätssicherung und haben ihre Wurzeln im Operations… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Strategic management — is a field that deals with the major intended and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving utilization of resources, to enhance the performance of firms in their external environments.[1] It entails specifying… …   Wikipedia

  • Coordinated Incident Management System — The New Zealand Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) is New Zealand s system for managing the response to an incident involving multiple responding agencies. Its developers based the system on California s Incident Command System (ICS)… …   Wikipedia

  • Metropolitan planning organization — A metropolitan planning organization (MPO) is a federally mandated and federally funded transportation policy making organization in the United States that is made up of representatives from local government and governmental transportation… …   Wikipedia

  • Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …   Universalium

  • Emergency management — Accident preparedness redirects here. For Safety related articles, see Safety. Disaster preparedness redirects here. For other articles related to disaster preparedness, see Category:Disaster preparedness. Emergency management is the generic name …   Wikipedia

  • Computers and Information Systems — ▪ 2009 Introduction Smartphone: The New Computer.       The market for the smartphone in reality a handheld computer for Web browsing, e mail, music, and video that was integrated with a cellular telephone continued to grow in 2008. According to… …   Universalium

  • Project management — is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end (usually time constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables) …   Wikipedia

  • Enterprise risk management — In business, enterprise risk management (ERM) includes the methods and processes used by organizations to manage risks and seize opportunities related to the achievement of their objectives. ERM provides a framework for risk management, which… …   Wikipedia

  • Intelligence dissemination management — This article is part of a series on intelligence cycle management, and deals with the dissemination of processed intelligence. For a hierarchical list of articles, see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy. It is a classic maxim of… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”