Business Process Redesign (BPR)
dramatically simplifies business processes, eliminating waste, reducing cycle time and improving quality.

Cycle Time Reduction
strives to reduce the total time required to perform a set of tasks. It typically uses lean business practices found in BPR, TOC and TPS.

Design For Assembly (DFA)
strives for radical simplification of a product design and corresponding manufacturing processes, leading to significant cost reduction.

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
is a risk management approach used to assess and improve the quality, reliability, durability and safety of products and/or processes.

Kaizen Breakthrough Events
are approaches for rapid transformation of a product design, business process or manufacturing process, based on the principles of the Toyota Production System. In most cases transformation occurs in a week.

Lean Business Practices
(see Toyota Production System).

Policy Deployment
is an approach for planning and executing breakthrough business results. It combines some of the best aspects of Vision Development, Strategic Planning, Management by Objectives and Visual Management.

Project Management
is an approach for planning and executing major projects to enable them to be completed on time, in budget and within scope.

Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
helps to ensure that the "voice of the customer" is brought into the product development process, process development, manufacturing and reflected back into the marketplace.

Quality Operating Systems (QOS)
track quality of products or processes and provides an orderly and repeatable means to systematically improve.

Reliability Improvement
seeks to improve product reliability through understanding failure causes, and either eliminates them or neutralizes their effect.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
solves problems by tracing a series of fact and data based clues to get to the basic cause, solving the problem in a measurable way.

Statistical Process Control (SPC)
is an approach for monitoring and controlling a process based on statistical methods, using variation inherent in the process to signal when action is needed.

Strategic Planning
is an approach to mapping a course of action from the present to a desired future state and a way that is achievable and manageable.

Systems Thinking
is an improvement approach that looks for systemic causes, seeking to change the way the system drives behavior.

Taguchi Methods
seeks to make product or processes more robust, (less sensitive to variation), resulting in more stable results.

Theory of Constraints (TOC)
seeks to increase throughput by focusing organizational resources on identification, removal or management of constraints which limit results.

Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)
seeks to solve apparently impossible problems by identifying the underlying conflict, or contradiction and attacking it.

Toyota Production System (TPS)
is a manufacturing approach which strives for the total elimination of waste.

Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE)
strives for radical improvement in product value through greatly increasing functionality or decreasing cost.

Variability Reduction
is a combination of approaches which reduce variability in products and processes, improving performance and yield, while reducing cost.

Vision Development
seeks to clearly articulate a compelling future state to which the organization may be steered. This is often a starting point for Strategic Planning or Policy Deployment.

Visual Management
organizes the physical work environment and work approaches in a manner that enables management at a glance.