James Butler
‎Tuesday, ‎January ‎27, ‎2015
Project Management

The paper describes one of the possible ways how to easily detect problem’s root cause by using the IS - IS NOT analysis tool. A major benefit of the IS - IS NOT Analysis is its documentation of circumstances leading to the problem as well as those not associated with the problem. IS – IS NOT analysis as an efficient way to narrow the search for a root cause.
Key words problem root cause, analysis, problem detection, quality improvement
Modern problems solving tools
Modern quality management uses different kind of tools and methods to detect a problem root cause. There are plenty of problem solving tools to use. It is only up the team problem solving team leader to choose what kind of tool to use. Organizations mainly use 7 basic tools of quality management to detect the root cause of a problem, such as Ishikawa Chart (Identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem and sorts ideas into useful categories), Pareto Chart (Shows on a bar graph which factors are more significant), Check list (A structured, prepared form for collecting and analyzing data; a generic tool that can be adapted for a wide variety of purposes). Some organizations prefer to use the so-called new quality management tools: Affinity diagram (organizes a large number of ideas into their natural relationships), Relation Chart (shows cause-and-effect relationships and helps you analyze the natural links between different aspects of a complex situation), Tree diagram (breaks down broad categories into finer and finer levels of detail, helping you move your thinking step by step from generalities to specifics), Matrix Diagram (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