Build a fully functioning model of your new product to test and perfect it. This tool is typically used by product or component manufacturers who need to prove a new design concept, or when the design is particularly complex or expensive to produce. This tool can also be used to test and anticipate customer reactions to your innovations.
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Piloting Plan
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Build a fully functioning model of your new service to test and perfect it. Use this tool to demonstrate to stakeholders and customer how your innovation addresses both provider and customer expectations as well as using the feedback to hone your offering to increase its value quotient and come closer to achieving the ideal innovation.
Measurement Systems Analysis Planning Worksheet
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Identify the key inputs and outputs of your process. Use this tool when you need a shared understanding of how your process currently works (Select and Clarify), how you plan to produce and deliver your innovation to customers (Clarify and Organize) and how your process works in it's final stage (Run and Evaluate).
Conjoint Analysis
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Compare solution attributes to cull out customer preferences. Use this technique to determine the best combination of attributes to include in your product or service design based on the tradeoffs customers are willing to make.
Cause and Effect Matrix
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Identify the key input-output relationships in need of attention. Use this tool to determine which critical process inputs have the most impact on your process output. You can use this tool after the Cause & Effect Diagram has been completed to determine which of the inputs (X) are causing the greatest issues.
Control Plan Worksheet
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Ensure that your new solution becomes commercialized as planned. Use this tool to ensure that your innovation will produce or deliver according to your careful design regardless of location, personnel, environment or are variables that you won't be able to control. Development of the Control Plan can be assisted by the Process Map / Value Stream map, Design FMEA and Measurement System Analysis.
Cause and Effect Diagram
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Investigate the root causes of performance problems. Use this tool to brainstorm and categorize the variables that might be causing poor performance in your new process, product service or solution. Use Process Capability to determine if you are having any performance issues or defect problems that need to be solved.
SIPOC Map
- Demonstrate
- Innovation
Identify the key inputs and outputs of your process. Use this tool when you need a shared understanding of how your process currently works (Select and Clarify), how you plan to produce and deliver your innovation to customers (Clarify and Organize) and how your process works in it's final stage (Run and Evaluate).
