QFD Software for Product Development

TOTAL QUALITY AND OTHER BUSINESS STRATEGIES

• How do you insure that your company's valuable resources are not misapplied?
• How do you know that you are focusing on the right projects?
• How do you allocate precious resources across your project portfolio?
• How do you set the priorities of project tasks to optimize profits?

Expending resources on the wrong priorities wastes valuable time and money. A six-month error on a 10-person project can easily waste hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. While Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is no panacea, it is one of the most effective weapons against misguided misapplied resources.

It integrates marketing into product and process development and helps you prioritize which factors are most likely to drive a successful project outcome. At a high level, use it as a strategic planning tool to help choose the most profitable mix of projects to accept into your company's portfolio. On a specific project, use it to establish the order in which to perform specific tasks identifying what should be addressed quickly and where to focus your company's invaluable resources.

You can obtain these same benefits by utilizing QFD methods to implement your business improvement practices. QFD methods are already integral parts of Six Sigma defect prevention and Policy Deployment since both are driven by a series of matrices. The matrices compare program goals to design factors that affect each goal’s outcome.

QFD Designer software can quickly generate and adapt these program matrices so that they support not only Six Sigma and Policy Deployment but also any business improvement strategies your company employs. In fact, the following benefits of using QFD Designer further parallel and support most Total Quality Strategy goals.

• Adapts to existing processes and programs.
• Enhances objective project evaluation.
• Facilitates "big picture", high level strategic thinking and communicates plans to developers.
• Links strategies to tactics and prioritizes action plans.
• Establishes a framework for a corporate-wide design knowledgebase.
• Boosts goal congruence by deploying the "Voice of the client" through development from concept to production.

To exploit the full power of QFD and matrix problem solving, once you have your original matrix designed and filled out, you will want to perform a couple more steps. First, you can reorder the “HOWs” to reflect the items with the greatest contribution to client satisfaction. Next, you can highlight a subset (usually the most important to client satisfaction) and "rotate" those factors from the top of one chart to the side or goals area of a new chart. Then, you can continue refining your design.

This is known as Phase Progression and as mentioned, it is usually done after setting in relationships and calculating priorities for factors in the first chart.

Our software allows you to easily propagate or "cascade" these factors from one chart to the next. And, the beauty of the method is that you can employ the technology for such a great myriad of problems and issues.

• Create a Design Knowledgebase
• Improve Team Focus
• Make Super Presentations
• Save Time
• Improve Accuracy
• Develop Better Processes

Linked charts form the backbone of a corporate-wide development communication system. Deploy quality plans throughout the organization, even to your business partner community.

The powerful matrix planning technology helps you prioritize the many things you can control in your business to insure that your precious resources are spent where they will have the biggest impact on achieving your goals. Easily create templates to represent current business processes and utilize existing data.

Customize matrices to your exact needs, connecting to content and leveraging existing applications. Integrate with existing tools.

Built-in analysis features assure not only that you can represent your business problems, but you can configure matrix relationships to illuminate the best path for your development decisions. Immediately deploy linked information through your design and management community to synchronize and speed improvement efforts.

Special Price: $1,250.00

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1-800-462-4500