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Pareto Charts
  • Analyze
  • Lean
  • Lean Six Sigma

Random Word
  • Develop
  • Innovation

During Random Word, participants use free association in connection with an arbitrary word or image to generate new ideas.

Skills Matrix
  • Develop
  • Discover
  • Improve
  • Innovation
  • Measure

The Skills Matrix is a visual tool to manage the clustering of your workforce. 

Brainwriting
  • Discover
  • Innovation

Brainwriting 6-3-5 is a modified form of classic brainstorming that encourages equal participation from all team members using written rather than verbal idea generation.

Lean Tool Selection Matrix
  • Lean

This spreadsheet presents a list of Lean tools, combined with their definition, when to use them, what questions they answer and any additional helpful information. This matrix is ideal as a refresher document.

Lean Six sigma Project Definition Worksheet
  • Define
  • Lean Six Sigma

Project definition is an integral first step in any Lean or Lean Six Sigma project. The Lean Six Sigma Project Definition Worksheet is a best practice document used to scope and define a Lean Six Sigma project.

Sample Size Calculator
  • Analyze
  • Lean Six Sigma

The sample size is the size of a sample needed to estimate process parameters. This document will calculate the sample size needed for any project based on the type of hypothesis test required.

Control Chart App
  • Analyze
  • Control
  • Define
  • Improve
  • Measure
  • Lean Six Sigma

When dealing with vast amounts of data types and measurements, it can be daunting to find the right tool for the task. Control Charts aid the Six Sigma professional in the process of determining if a process is under control.

Using BMGI's Control Chart Selection app, you can quickly and easily find the best tool for your specific situation by answering a handful of simple questions.

Available for download on iTunes and Android Market.

Hypothesis Testing Road-map App
  • Analyze
  • Control
  • Define
  • Improve
  • Measure
  • Lean Six Sigma

In the simplest of terms, a hypothesis test is a way to use statistics to answer a practical question. Statistical tests of hypothesis can be used to provide an answer to pratical questions, based on sample data. Without hypothesis tests, we may overreact to situations without data, mistaking randomness for variation.

This BMGI wizard will help you walk through the Hypothesis Testing Roadmap to select the best hypothesis test for your project. 

Available for download on iTunes and Android Market.

Data Validation Questions In Lieu of Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Measure
  • Lean Six Sigma

If it just isn’t feasible to conduct a traditional MSA, then at the very least, these questions should be applied.  You should document the answers to this checklist as part of your project documentation / Final Report.