MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Management and
Planning Tools

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While most leaders recognize the value of good planning, most lack the experience and methods to do it systematically. As a result, group planning efforts are often frustrating, generating plans that are shallow and poorly understood by those who must carry them out.
The seven management and planning tools are a set of easy to use, systematic methods from the quality management literature that can help planning teams in the same way that the familiar quality improvement tools like flow charts and histograms aid problemsolving teams.

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According to Joseph Juran

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 Using these tools during the innovation process will result in higher quality product, or service at a lower cost with shorter time.

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The seven management and planning tools are used in leading organizations throughout the world as a set of team based tools for making better decisions and implementing them with greater success.
When used as individual tools, they provide an organized way of thinking and making decisions.
When used in combination with each other, they provide a powerful answer to the way in which teams can respond effectively to issues that can at times seem confusing and chaotic

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These tools are proven useful in:
Process improvement
Cost reduction
Policy deployment
New-product development
Conceptualization
Idea