5S
Affinity Diagrams
Brainstorming
British Quality Foundation
Continuous Improvement
Control Charts
Cross-Functional Teams - Project Teams
Decision Making
Deming
Facilitation - Internal Consultants
Innovation
Kaizen
Lean
Lean Sigma
Matrix Diagrams
Michelin Excellence Award
Mission Statement
NSQT - National Society for Quality through Teamwork
Organizational Values
PDSA - Plan, Do, Study, Act
Performance Development
Planning
Policy Deployment
Problem Solving
Process Decision Programme Chart (PDPC)
Process Management
Project Management
Quality Cost And Supply Management
Relations Diagram
Seven Management Tools
Seven Q.C. Tools
Six Sigma
Standardise, Do, Check, Act (SDCA)
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Systematic Diagrams
Team Building
Total Quality (TQM)
Trainer Training
Visioning
Affinity Diagrams
Brainstorming
British Quality Foundation
Continuous Improvement
Control Charts
Cross-Functional Teams - Project Teams
Decision Making
Deming
Facilitation - Internal Consultants
Innovation
Kaizen
Lean
Lean Sigma
Matrix Diagrams
Michelin Excellence Award
Mission Statement
NSQT - National Society for Quality through Teamwork
Organizational Values
PDSA - Plan, Do, Study, Act
Performance Development
Planning
Policy Deployment
Problem Solving
Process Decision Programme Chart (PDPC)
Process Management
Project Management
Quality Cost And Supply Management
Relations Diagram
Seven Management Tools
Seven Q.C. Tools
Six Sigma
Standardise, Do, Check, Act (SDCA)
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Systematic Diagrams
Team Building
Total Quality (TQM)
Trainer Training
Visioning
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Cross-Functional Teams - Project Teams
Where a company is traditionally organised into functions such as engineering, manufacturing and sales, then the efforts to optimise each function separately can result in sub-optimization of the whole. For example, efforts to meet a design cost target may later result in much greater manufacturing costs.
Thus major problems can arise between functions which also lead to conflict if each function has different goals it is trying to achieve.
In this situation, cross-functional teams may be set up to resolve the conflict and eliminate the problem. Team members should receive appropriate training in the quality tools.
Cross-Functional teams are sometimes called Project Teams.
The quality tools and techniques are taught in Walker Associates' Quality Improvement Team Workshop and the Seven Management Tools Workshop.
Where a company is traditionally organised into functions such as engineering, manufacturing and sales, then the efforts to optimise each function separately can result in sub-optimization of the whole. For example, efforts to meet a design cost target may later result in much greater manufacturing costs.
Thus major problems can arise between functions which also lead to conflict if each function has different goals it is trying to achieve.
In this situation, cross-functional teams may be set up to resolve the conflict and eliminate the problem. Team members should receive appropriate training in the quality tools.
Cross-Functional teams are sometimes called Project Teams.
The quality tools and techniques are taught in Walker Associates' Quality Improvement Team Workshop and the Seven Management Tools Workshop.