TLS Continuum How to Guide - Power of the Customer
1. The Power of the
customer
A TLS Continuum Guide to
Process Improvement
2. As an organization
Your goal and purpose is to acquire and
maintain customers
Customers are vital to the success of your
organization
3. Voice of the Customer
Critical to improvement success
They tell you what is wrong
They are your organization
They are your financial status
4. How do we know what they are
telling us?
Surveys
Active listening
Quality for Deployment assessments
5. Voice of the Customer Needs
Faster
Better
Cheaper
6. Voice of the Customer Needs
Faster means can we deliver your
service or product quicker than the
customer requested it
7. Voice of the Customer Needs
Better means can we deliver our
product or service exactly as the
customer requested without the need
to rework it due to things done
incorrectly?
8. Voice of the Customer Needs
Cheaper does not mean negotiated
price
Cheaper means can we deliver the
product or service earlier than
promised
9. Voice of the Customer Needs
The House of Quality is the answer to
the customer needs
It tells you what is important to the
customer
It tells us what they expect from us
11. Voice of the Customer Needs
Need to look at the tool from the
perspective of what is important to
them not your organization
12. Voice of the Customer Needs
Steps to complete the House of Quality
1. Begin with the left side of the form
2. For each category ask the customer
what is important to them
3. What would make your product
better?
4. What would make your product
faster?
5. What would make your product
cheaper?
14. Voice of the Customer Needs
As you can see from the previous slide the Quality Function
Deployment form lays out in clear terms the needs of the
customer.
The vertical columns then look at what your organization needs
to do to meet those needs in each stage of the process:
Planning
Development
Marketing
Delivery
Support
15. Voice of the Customer Needs
In each category they are then weighted as to
whether they are a strong need, a medium need or
a weak need.
The higher the weight (strong being a 4 and weak
being a 1) the more pressing to be worked on.
You want to choose the critical few to resolve first.
16. Voice of the Customer Needs
Voice of the customer in turn determines
Job requirements
Staffing levels
Customer service
Sustainability of your organization
Organizational reputation
17. Lessons Learned
1 Customers are key to organization success
2 They tell you what is wrong with your
process
3 They determine whether you remain in
business
18. MORE INFORMATION?
Daniel Bloom
SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Bloom &Associates, Inc.
PO Box 1233
Largo, FL 33779
(727) 581-6216
dan@dbaiconsulting.com
http://www.dbaiconsulting.com