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Seven New Management and Planning Tools

Overview In 1976, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) saw the need for tools to promote
Read More innovation, communicate information and successfully plan major projects. A team researched and
developed the seven new quality control tools, often called the seven management and planning (MP)
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tools, or simply the seven management tools. Not all the tools were new, but their collection and
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promotion were.
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Tree Diagram The seven MP tools, listed in an order that moves from abstract analysis to detailed planning, are:

Matrix Diagram 1. Affinity Diagram: organizes a large number of ideas into their natural relationships.
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2. Relations Diagram: shows cause-and-effect relationships and helps you analyze the natural
Arrow Diagram links between different aspects of a complex situation.

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5. Matrix Data Aanalysis: a complex mathematical technique for analyzing matrices, often
replaced in this list by the similar prioritization matrix. One of the most rigorous, careful and
time-consuming of decision-making tools, a prioritization matrix is an L-shaped matrix that
uses pairwise comparisons of a list of options to a set of criteria in order to choose the best
option(s).

6. Arrow Diagram: shows the required order of tasks in a project or process, the best schedule
for the entire project, and potential scheduling and resource problems and their solutions.

7. Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC): systematically identifies what might go wrong in a
plan under development.

Excerpted from Nancy R. Tague’s The Quality Toolb ox, Second Edition, ASQ Quality Press, 2004.

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