Encourages open thinking and gets all team members involved and enthusiastic Allows team members to build on each creativity while staying other’s focused on the task at hand Cause and Effect/ Used to: Find and cure causes, not Page 23 Fishbone Diagram symptoms Enables a team to focus on the content of the problem, not the problem’s history or difference personal issues of team members Creates a snapshot of the collective knowledge and consensus of a team around a problem Focuses the team on causes, not symptoms Public Health Memory QI Tool What the Tool Does Jogger II Check Sheet Used to: Count and accumulate data Page 31 Creates easy-to-understand data ~ makes patterns in the data become more obvious. Builds a clearer picture of “the facts”, as opposed to opinions of each team member, through observation. Control Charts Used to: Recognize sources of variation Page 36 Serves as a tool for detecting and monitoring process variation. Provides a common language for discussing process performance. Helps improve a process to perform with higher quality, lower cost, and higher effective capacity. Data Points Used to: Turn data into information Page 52 Determines what type of data you have Determines what type of data is needed Flowchart Page 56
Encourages open thinking and gets all team members involved and enthusiastic Allows team members to build on each other’s creativity while staying focused on the task at hand Cause and Effect/ Fishbone Diagram Used to: Find and cure causes, not symptoms Enables a team to focus on the content of the problem, not the problem’s history or difference personal issues of team members Creates a snapshot of the collective knowledge and consensus of a team around a problem Focuses the team on causes, not symptoms Page 23 QI Tool What the Tool Does Public Health Memory Jogger II Check Sheet Used to: Count and accumulate data Creates easy-to-understand data ~ makes patterns in the data become more obvious. Builds a clearer picture of “the facts”, as opposed to opinions of each team member, through observation. Page 31 Control Charts Used to: Recognize sources of variation Serves as a tool for detecting and monitoring process variation. Provides a common language for discussing process performance. Helps improve a process to perform with higher quality, lower cost, and higher effective capacity. Page 36 Data Points Used to: Turn data into information Determines what type of data you have Determines what type of data is needed Page 52 Flowchart Page 56
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