Quality Improvement (Six Sigma)
Overview
Successful organizations use Cognos business intelligence software to visualize the data that drives their quality initiatives - Six Sigma, ISO, EFQM, SPC, TQM and others.
Cognos dashboards deliver key benefits to support the drive for higher quality:
Simplify complex data sets
- Integrate statistical data from different sources in a single window.
- Explore "what if" scenarios with interactive three-dimensional displays.
- Animate quality data to show patterns over time.
Visualize data in any format
- Choose the best method for presenting and customizing results: box and whisker, swatch, value, parallel coordinate, gauge, histogram, thermometer, control limits, and trend charts
- Aggregate displays to compare and contrast business measures.
- Zoom in on areas of interest and rotate the visual for a fresh perspective.
- Display relationships between data sets and their impact on quality.
Enable management by fact
- Communicate strategy to everyone in your organization.
- View quality data against targets at any point in a business process.
- Pinpoint defects and drill down to understand root causes.
- Spot emerging patterns and trends.
Performance Management
Take your Quality program beyond back-office improvements to craft high-level business strategies. From your Quality data you can identify key business indicators that enable driver-based planning for your organization:
- Form and execute new business strategies and missions.
- Respond to changing and complex customer requirements.
- Facilitate mergers and acquisitions.
- Drive sustainable culture change.
- Improve financial and corporate reporting.
Make quality and performance the responsibility of every employee: Evolve your Quality program into performance management (PM).
"With Cognos, we have taken mountains of data that used to take hours or days to compile, and turned it into instantly available decision-making information. We make better decisions with this tool than we did without it."
Shawn Reniker
Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Werner Co.
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