{"id":5337,"date":"2021-11-02T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2023-10-17T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:50:44","slug":"tools-looking-for-problems-to-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/tools-looking-for-problems-to-solve\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools Looking for Problems to Solve"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People trained in Six Sigma want to take an advanced tool and apply it to a problem. They spend a lot of time looking for a problem where they can use the tool. That&#8217;s the wrong approach. What should you do instead?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/611856046?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been detecting sort of an interesting pattern, at least recently. There&#8217;s all these people being trained as Green Belts and Black Belts, and when they&#8217;re done with all that training they have all these tools and then they decide they&#8217;re going to take one of those tools &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/gage-r-and-r-study\/attribute-agreement-analysis\/\">Attribute Agreement Analysis<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/design-of-experiments\/\">Design Of Experiments<\/a> or something more complicated &#8211; and then they go out and they look for a problem to solve using that tool.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Well, guess what? I think that&#8217;s the wrong way to go about it. Start with problems you really have, and most of them will yield to what I call \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/breakthrough-improvement-excel\/magnificent-seven-tools\/\">The Magnificent Seven Tools<\/a>,\u201d and then solve all of those. Once you get rid of all the uncomplicated problems that need analysis with data, guess what? Maybe then you&#8217;ll discover along the way that there&#8217;s actually a problem you can use those other tools on, but don&#8217;t be a tool looking for a problem.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Find a problem, figure out what tool you need and work on the problem, because that&#8217;s the most important thing; that is absolutely the most important thing. You do not need a sledgehammer to hang a picture on the wall, right? Maybe you just need a little tiny hammer to get that into the wall.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s start with the problem, then pick the tool to solve it, not start with tools and look for problems that don&#8217;t need solution, all right? 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