There are a host of different quality tools that you could use for continuous Quality Improvement, one of the tools you could use is the Ishikawa Diagram or the Fishbone Diagram. A very effective tool to help you find all of the potential root causes for a specific problem, this quality tool helps you to organise your thoughts to solve these problems.
The Fishbone Diagram, or Ishikawa Diagram is one of the simple quality tools that can help a company achieve Continuous process Improvement. Without a planned program of continual Improvement of your business processes you will be unable to compete with your competition, these cause and effect diagrams will help you achieve continuous process improvement. Named after it's creator the Ishikawa or Fishbone diagram is an effective way to find the causes of many business problems and help you to solve them.
Named a Fishbone diagram because of its resemblance to a fishes skeleton the Ishikawa diagram allows you to arrange potential causes to a specific effect into a number of specific categories, the 4,5 or even 6Ms, Man, Method, Material, Machines, Metrics, and Mother nature.
This is a very simple and easy to use tool, especially when combined with the disciplines of other quality tools such as brainstorming. This cause and effect diagram can quickly and easily help you to identify the many causes of your problems.
With this quality tool available for your use you can work towards identifying all of the potential causes of your problems (the effect in a cause and effect diagram) and focus on eliminating then to continuously improve your quality and your business.
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