RUH Flashcards

1
Q

The ongoing improvement of products, services, or processes through incremental and breakthrough improvements

Actual type of work style designed to continuously review results and rapidly adopt new measures

A

CPI

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2
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In line with Six Sigma, which you have a set of techniques enacted for a quantifiable financial return

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Formalized CPI

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3
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Pull from lean methodologies and approach improving processes on a case-by-case basis

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Adaptive CPI

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4
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Minor changes that occur continuously

A

Small changes

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5
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Employees should feel.empowered to identify opportunities for development

A

Employees matter

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6
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Small incremental changes are naturally less expensive

A

Incremental = inexpensive

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7
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An involved staff opens the idea of ownership and leads to sustainable improvement

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Employee ownership

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8
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By implementing solutions that involve increased collaboration or visibility, it’s easier for teams to see how their actions impact positive results

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Improvement is reflective

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9
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Small improvements need to be measured to see if they are doing what they intend to do.

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Measurable and repeatable

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10
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An improvement cycle meant to reduce the cost of poor quality by planning quality into the process

A

Juran Trilogy

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11
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Critical to define who the customers are and to define their needs (voice of the customer)

A

Quality Planning

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12
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Determine what needs to be measured and set a goal for performance.

A

Quality Control

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13
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Repair, refinement, renovation, reinvention

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Quality Improvement

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14
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Extracting process from limiting legacy environments and then re-platforming them onto more efficient, modern technologies

A

Modernize

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15
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Leveraging predictive analytics and simulation capabilities

A

Optimize

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16
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Creates org-wide process that aims to drive consistency, improve quality, increase process execution times, and overall governance

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Standardize

17
Q

Goes above and beyond to facilitate and accelerate process improvement strategies which remove guman error and free employees for higher-value work

A

Automate

18
Q

Identify an opportunity and plan for change

A

Plan

19
Q

Implement the change on a small scale

A

Do

20
Q

Use data to analyze results of the change

A

Check

21
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If the change was successful, implement it on a wider scale and continuously assess results. If not, begin the cycle again

A

Act

22
Q

Focuses on waste reduction
Achieves its goals by using less technical tools

A

Lean

23
Q

Emphasizes variation reduction
Tends to use statistical data analysis

A

Six Sigma

24
Q

Define the problem, output to be improved, customers

A

Define

25
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Collect data from the process to establish a baseline for improvements

A

Measure

26
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Analyze the data to find the root causes of defects

A

Analyze

27
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Develop, test, and implement solutions to improve the process

A

Improve

28
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Implement process controls to sustain the improvements

A

Control

29
Q

Ensure the design output meets the design input requirements (verification) and that the designed product performs satisfactorily (validation)

A

Verify