- April 19, 2025
- May 3, 2025
What is “CBAP”?
Hello everyone. This time, I would like to write about “CBAP” as one of the qualifications for problem solvers. “CBAP” is an abbreviation […]
- September 22, 2023
- May 3, 2025
Key points for “Decision Tree Analysis”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Root cause analysis” as “Problem Solving Practice Edition”, with “Another dimension of countermeasures again […]
- September 2, 2023
- May 3, 2025
How to conduct “Root Cause Analysis” – Practice Edition
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Logistic regression analysis”. This time I would like to cover Root cause analysis as Practice Edition […]
- June 24, 2023
- May 3, 2025
Key points for “Logistic Regression Analysis”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Thorough utilization of data that is sleeping in your company” as “Problem Solving Practice Edition […]
- April 29, 2023
- May 4, 2025
What is Data Utilization? – Practice Edition
Hello everyone. This time is also “Problem Solving Practice Edition”. This time, I would like to take up “Thorough utilization of data tha […]
- February 23, 2023
- May 3, 2025
How to conduct “Strategic Decision Making” – Practice Edition
It’s been a long time since I posted last time. From this time, I would like to write about the “Problem Solving: Practice Edition”. […]
- December 30, 2022
- May 3, 2025
Icebreaker games – Part 2
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Ice Breaker – Part 1 (General ones)” as one of the soft skills required of problem solvers. I wo […]
- December 30, 2022
- May 3, 2025
Icebreaker games – Part 1
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Presentation” as one of the soft skills required for problem solvers. This time, I would like to […]
- December 30, 2022
- May 3, 2025
What is “Good Presentation”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about how to develop “GRIT (the ability to persevere)” among the three qualities (1. Tacit knowledge, 2 […]
- December 29, 2022
- May 3, 2025
What are “GRIT” and “Growth Mindset”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Knowledge Management” as one of the soft skills that problem solvers should have. Among them, &# […]
- December 29, 2022
- May 3, 2025
Key points for “Knowledge Management”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about the relatively new (although it has been around for over 20 years) “Agile” method in “Proje […]
- December 29, 2022
- May 3, 2025
“Agile” Project Management
Hello everyone. Last time, we extracted the tasks that should be added as “Project Management” by mapping PMBOK, which should be understoo […]
- December 28, 2022
- May 3, 2025
Key points for “Project Management”
Hello everyone. Last time, I introduced three representative approaches (PMBOK/PRINCE2/CMMI) and provided an overview of “project managementR […]
- December 28, 2022
- May 3, 2025
What is “Project Management”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about Change Management which is one of the soft skills that support problem solvers. I wrote about the tasks that […]
- December 27, 2022
- May 3, 2025
How to conduct “Change Management”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote the overview of “Change Management” which is one of the soft skills that support problem solvers. By co […]
- December 27, 2022
- May 3, 2025
What is Change Management?
Hello everyone. Last time, at the end of “to-be (future state design)”, I wrote about monthly management (30/60/90 days review) and daily […]
- December 27, 2022
- May 3, 2025
“30/60/90 days review” and “Daily Standup”
Hello everyone. Since last time, we have entered the final stage of “to-be (future state design)”, and also entered “Control”, […]
- December 27, 2022
- November 23, 2025
What are “RACI” and “KPIs”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “brainstorming” which is the standard for generating ideas in “to-be” phase, and espe […]
- December 26, 2022
- May 2, 2025
Brainstorming – Practice edition
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “brainstorming” which is the standard for generating ideas in the “to-be (future state desi […]
- December 26, 2022
- May 2, 2025
How to conduct “Brainstorming”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “facilitation” which is a super important “soft skill” for problem solvers. From this […]
- December 24, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “Facilitation”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about the “workshop” where to ask Gemba members to come up with solutions to solve problems in the R […]
- December 18, 2022
- May 2, 2025
How to conduct “Workshop”
Hello everyone, since last time, we went into “to-be (future state design)”. Now it’s time for problem solving. Last time, I wrote t […]
- December 17, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “to-be (future state design)”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about the “5 Whys”, one of the techniques used in the “Analyze” phase of Lean Six Sigma to […]
- December 11, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “5 Whys”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Fishbone Analysis”, one of the methods used in the “Analyze” phase, which we can say […]
- December 10, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “Fishbone Analysis”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Value Stream Mapping (VSM)”, a method used in the “Measure” phase, which we can say […]
- December 4, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “Value Stream Mapping (VSM)”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “business process analysis”, which is one of the methods used in “internal research”. This time, it will be L […]
- December 3, 2022
- May 2, 2025
Key Points of “Business Process Analysis”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “internal interviews” as one of the major methods used in “internal research”. This time as well, I woul […]
- November 27, 2022
- May 2, 2025
How to conduct “Internal interviews”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “stakeholder analysis” as one of the methods used in “internal research”. This time, I would like […]
- November 26, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “Stakeholder analysis”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “5W2H” and “Project Charter” as tools used in the first step of Lean Six Sigma, ̶ […]
- November 23, 2022
- May 2, 2025
5W2H and Project Charter
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about CTQ, a tool used in the first step of Lean Six Sigma, “Define”, to identify improvement opportunities within […]
- November 19, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “CTQ”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about SIPOC as a tool that can be used for “scoping” in the first step of Lean Six Sigma, “Define”. This time as we […]
- November 13, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “SIPOC”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Pareto analysis”, one of the tools often used in the first step of Lean Six Sigma, “Define […]
- November 12, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “Pareto Analysis”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “how to present analysis results” for problem solving. From this time, I would like to write a li […]
- November 5, 2022
- May 2, 2025
How to present analysis results
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Design of Experiments” which was introduced as one of the analysis methods when conducting primar […]
- November 4, 2022
- May 2, 2025
What is “Design of Experiments”? – The difference from “Conjoint Analysis”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Conjoint Analysis” which was introduced as one of the analysis methods when conducting primary researc […]
- October 29, 2022
- May 1, 2025
Key points for “Conjoint Analysis”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Regression Analysis” which was introduced as one of the analysis methods when conducting primary resear […]
- October 22, 2022
- May 1, 2025
Key points for “Regression Analysis”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “KANO Model” which was introduced as one of the analysis methods when conducting primary research. This […]
- October 15, 2022
- May 1, 2025
What is “KANO Model”?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about “Customer Journey Mapping” which was introduced as one of the analysis methods when conducting primary resear […]
- October 15, 2022
- May 1, 2025
Key points for “Customer Journey Mapping”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about the survey planning (generally called as survey design) when conducting the primary research. In survey desig […]
- October 10, 2022
- May 1, 2025
Survey design of “primary research (customer survey)”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote that “fact collection” is necessary at first for problem solving, and that fact collection can be broad […]
- October 9, 2022
- May 2, 2025
How to collect “Facts”
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about the importance of “Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive (MECE)” regarding how to proceed with “as-is”. […]
- October 8, 2022
- May 1, 2025
MECE – “Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive”
Hello everyone. From this time, along with the general flow of problem solving from “as-is (current state analysis)” to “to-be (futu […]
- October 8, 2022
- April 29, 2025
What is “Black Belt” ?
Hello everyone. Last time, I wrote about the overview of “Lean Six Sigma” as one of the problem solving methodologies. Several roles have […]
- October 1, 2022
- April 29, 2025
The difference between “Lean” and “Six Sigma”
Hello everyone. Last time , I wrote about the high level flow of problem solving, from “as-is (current state analysis)” to “to-be (f […]
- October 1, 2022
- May 1, 2025
What is as-is and to-be?
Hello everyone. My name is “Yoshi-san”. This is my memorable first post. As you can see in Profile for my biography, but I’ve been i […]