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Webinar: DMAIC: Common Challenges & How to Overcome Them
1. DMAIC: Common Challenges
and How to Overcome Them
Presented by Elisabeth Swan
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2. Our Mission and Core Values
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Mission: Revolutionize the way people learn process
improvement—making it easy for everyone everywhere
to build their problem-solving muscles
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3. Learning Objectives
After completing this webinar, you will be
able to:
• Define DMAIC
• Outline the purpose of each DMAIC Phase
• List the biggest challenge associated with
each phase
• Describe the techniques to
overcome common issues
• List the next steps in your
DMAIC journey
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4. Today’s Agenda
• A DMAIC Refresher
• The 5 Biggest Challenges
• Surmounting the Obstacles
• Planning Your Journey
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11. Project Goals
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Goal
Reduce the complexity of the
ordering system and make it easier
to find vendors while removing all
the redundant steps and creating a
new guide for purchasing.
Creating an efficient new template
for everyone to enter their items
and submit to the department in
less time and with a faster
turnaround and cheaper products
that help increase margin.
12. Upgrading Goal Statements
Streamline the Accounts
Receivable department
Improve the efficiency of the
purchase order process to 100%
Reduce the time it takes to find
a vendor by creating an
approved list of vendors
Install new application
processing software
Reduce time to send an invoice
from 1 month to 1 day
Reduce the % of Purchase
Orders requiring rework from
22% to 11%
Reduce the time it takes to find
a valid vendor from 1 week
to 1 day
Reduce incomplete application
submissions from 13% to 6%
Not Great Better!
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24. Poll #2
Question: What’s your most common data
collection experience?
A. I find what I need in the system
B. I use 2 or more system sources to get what I
need
C. I collect all the data manually
D. I use a hybrid of manual collection and
system data
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45. Seeing Process Performance
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I remember that
one… we forgot to
put in the Conch
Salad order!
But our
improvements
are the reason for
this shift. We
made the process
steadily quicker!
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