Prioritizing the Lean Initiatives

This chapter describes four main approaches to prioritizing an organization’s Lean initiatives. The four methods increase in complexity and time to apply the prioritization technique. The first is a simple priority impact and effort matrix; the next is applying a Pugh initiative selection matrix; the third is applying a quality function deployment (QFD) house of quality tool; and the last, most complex, approach is applying a systems engineering approach from the business architecture body of knowledge. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are shown in Figure 23.1.