Diversity and agility are important concepts for companies. Diversity refers to expanding business opportunities through additional markets or acquiring new businesses. Agility allows companies to adapt and adjust to changes in customer needs, competitors, and the environment. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a systematic approach to design that considers customer wants and needs. It involves translating customer demands into technical specifications to develop a quality product. The process includes determining customer requirements, technical attributes, and the relationship between them to meet customer satisfaction.

1. DIVERSITY
AND
AGILITY

2. DIVERSITY
DIVERSITY
The process of expanding business opportunities through
additional marketing potential of an existing product.
Market Research
Legal Review
Production Adaptation
Analysis
a strategy for company growth
through starting up or acquiring
businesses outside the company's
current products and markets

3. EXAMPLE
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4. AGILITY
AGILITY
The ability for companies to stay competitive in their
business by adjusting and adapting to new innovative ideas.
the ability of a system to rapidly
respond to change by adapting its
initial stable configuration
Consumer’s Needs
Competitors
Environment

5. EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE

6. QFD
(Quality Function Deployment)
a systematic approach to design based on a close awareness of
customer desires, coupled with the integration of corporate
functional groups.
Yoji Akao
QFD
QFD is a method for developing a design quality
aimed at satisfying the consumer and then
translating the consumer's demand into design
targets and major quality assurance points to be used
throughout the production phase. ... [QFD] is a way
to assure the design quality while the product is still
in the design stage."
• Prioritize spoken and unspoken
customer wants and needs.
• Translate these needs into technical
characteristics and specifications.
• Build and deliver a quality product or
service toward customer satisfaction.

7. Product Planning
Phases
Product Design
Process Planning
Process
Control

8. Step 1: Customer Requirements - "Voice of the Customer"
The first step in a QFD project is to determine what market segments will be
analyzed during the process and to identify who the customers are.
Step 2: Regulatory Requirements
Not all product or service requirements are known to the customer, so the team
must document requirements that are dictated by management or regulatory
standards that the product must adhere to.
Step 3: Customer Importance Ratings
On a scale from 1 - 5, customers then rate the importance of each requirement.
This number will be used later in the relationship matrix.
Step 4: Customer Rating of the Competition
Understanding how customers rate the competition can
be a tremendous competitive advantage.
Step 5: Technical Descriptors - "Voice of the Engineer"
The technical descriptors are attributes about the product or service that can be
measured and benchmarked against the competition.
Step 6: Direction of Improvement
As the team defines the technical descriptors, a determination must be made as
to the direction of movement for each descriptor.
Step 7: Relationship Matrix
The relationship matrix is where the team determines the relationship between
customer needs and the company's ability to meet those needs.
Step 8: Organizational Difficulty
Rate the design attributes in terms of organizational difficulty.
Step 9: Technical Analysis of Competitor Products
To better understand the competition, engineering then conducts a comparison
of competitor technical descriptors.
Step 10: Target Values for Technical Descriptors
At this stage in the process, the QFD team begins to establish target values for
each technical descriptor.
Step 11: Correlation Matrix
This room in the matrix is where the term House of Quality comes from because
it makes the matrix look like a house with a roof.