Strategic Innovation Review
Strategic review of the functioning of the innovation portfolio and the innovation engine.
ABS KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY
Lean & DBS glossary
Explore lean, growth and leadership terms: definitions, practical explanations and examples, freely available in English and Chinese.
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Strategic Plan
The management team's vision of how to win over clients, products, channels, quality, delivery and costs over the long term, answers the question "What game to play, how to win".
Strategy Partner Grow
Open Innovation DBS Tools: Successfully through a set of workshops and standard operating definition of target programmes, screening of partners, development of transactional elements and management of collaboration.
Stratification
An analysis method that breaks down data by business-meaningful dimensions such as shift, equipment, material, personnel, product, or time, to avoid overall averages masking local differences.
Subject
First layer of the operational entity: things that persist in reality and on which events occur — projects, plants, value streams, production lines, stations, equipment, parts, standard work, people, and external organizations, ten types in total. Not DBS training content.
Subject Matter Expert
Staff members who are recognized as having expertise in a tool, process or concept within Danaher.
Successful Relationships
The section on how to establish and maintain an effective working relationship is taught in key dialogue courses.
Sunk Cost
Future decision-making should not be affected by the already incurred and irreversible expenditures.
Supermarket
Inventory of controlled parts used for production into upstream processes.
Supplier Partnership
The way in which both supply and demand operate in close cooperation, mutual recognition of benefits and responsibilities and joint realization.
Supplier Performance Factor
The decimal parameter 0-10, ICL uses to calculate the supplier's performance buffer: the higher the value, the higher the supplier's secure inventory of the cards; and the only way to translate the "this is not a good one" into the inventory.
Supplier Quality Management
Systematized management of vendor quality.
Supply Base Management
Management bandwidth is allocated by relationship slot (tactile/integration/strategy), with a 3x3 scorecard (quality/delivery/costs) to be assigned to vendors and a frequency review by slot is decided.
Supply Chain & Logistics Best Practices
The chain of determinations for the supply base management, the lean supply chain, material pull, inventory guidelines and the sections of the stock distribution plan, which is "to what extent the last paragraph is allowed to enter the next paragraph " , does not repeat the algorithm defining any paragraph.
Taguchi Methods & Design of Experiments (DOE)
The final rung of the tool upgrade ladder, addressing problems where multiple potential causes act simultaneously and interact; Taguchi's three core elements are parameter design, signal-to-noise ratio, and orthogonal arrays; on the DOE side, resolution describes the cost of reduced trial runs (confounding of interactions with main effects).
Takt Time
Rate of demand for products from clients: The time available for the shift is divided by the client ' s demand for the class, usually in seconds.
Talent Review
A process, covering all employees with no entry threshold, that surveys the distribution of talent and the internal succession situation; the paired organization review assesses each function's execution capability against each strategic initiative.
Target Costing
Methods for establishing product cost targets at the design stage: sale price - target profit = target cost.
Target to Improve
Quantitative improvement targets set in strategic deployments to improve priorities.
Task (Flow Run)
A single run obtained by 'walking through' a process: how many steps, which step reached, and judgments left at each step; the task bar follows globally under the top bar.
Technology Development Process
A process for developing valuable new technology while reducing technology risk, protecting new product development from late-stage disruption; it uses TRL levels and TRA assessments, with visual management to drive progress.
Technology Readiness Assessment
Standardized evaluation of assessment of technical maturity.
Technology Readiness Level
A standardized scale that defines levels of technology maturity.
Technology Roadmap
A visual tool to support "possession of the required technology at the right time" discusses and decides on how to break down the relationship between market demand, product attributes and technology on the timeline.
Tender Standard Work
DBS workshop tool for establishing a standard operating framework for business management of large long-cycle bids.
TG-2 Kaizen / Simplified QFD
A one-week Kaizen Event before Gate 2 to converge customer needs into a Product Concept: Simplified QFD walks through the six rooms of the House of Quality, scoring characteristics H/M/L = 9/3/1 and setting negative levels NH/NM/NL.
The Seven QC Tools
Seven chart tools that measure defects and explain them clearly (check sheet, Pareto chart, cause-and-effect diagram, histogram, scatter plot, control chart, stratification)—three collect data, two find causes, two check stability; stratification is not parallel to the others but is a prerequisite for the first six.
Three-Point Estimate
Estimate duration or cost using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic values; the system has three sets of same-named measurement definitions (average, value selection by risk factor, PERT weighting). They measure different things and are not interchangeable.
Three-Second Rule
Looking at a viewed area, you can understand what's going on there in three seconds.
Time Fence
Three segments (needs/plans/rates) cut at the SIOP plan period to determine what to do at a given point in time.
Time Observation Sheet
The sheet used on the floor to record how long each of an operator's steps takes and the full work sequence; normally 7 to 10 observations are taken and the shortest observable time for each step becomes that step's standard.
Time to Fill
Time from vacancy to completion of filling of post.
Time to Market
The time required from concept to market launch.
Toll Gate
The stage review gate in the project flow; the source defines it as "(somewhat) arbitrary points in the project life cycle at which the management team reviews the project"—the arbitrariness is the source's own wording. For Kaizen Events around Toll Gate 2, see also "TG-2 Kaizen / Simplified QFD". Not the same thing as [[gate-review]] (Gate Review): a Toll Gate is a gate in a product development flow (such as APD), while a Gate Review is a gate check in the playbook engine that can stop people.
Total Productive Maintenance
From first-line operators to top-level full-time participation in equipment improvement to maximize resources, quality and full life cycle costs to eliminate operational waste.
Training and Facilitation Techniques for Instructors
Training in teaching and facilitation skills for in-house instructors.
Transactional Process Improvement
Eliminate waste in non-manufacturing processes, establish pull/standard operations/mobility, and improve the quality, delivery and cost of transactional work.
Transactional Waterfalls
The "falls" created between catalogue prices and exchange prices by leakage of price margin for predatory pricing (freight, return, discounts, concessions, advertising subsidies, etc.) should be incorporated into pricing strategies or eliminated.
Transformative Marketing
A set of processes and tools to enhance the contribution of marketing to income by building standard operating and organizational capacities.
TRIZ
An ideation method that starts from technical contradictions and works back from generic solutions collected by others to ask what else the product itself could become; it is the fourth of the five idea generation methods in the ideation course.
True North Metrics
The few metrics that provide long-term direction during a transformation (typically covering quality, delivery, cost or productivity, and people), used to judge whether improvements are accumulating in the right direction rather than as monthly appraisal scores. From published works, not a textbook measurement definition.
Turn Around Time
The overall turnaround time from receipt to completion of return.
User Experience
The emotional responses and attitudes that the users have accumulated in full interaction with the products and services of the company.
Valuable Problems in Attractive Segments
Understanding processes where clients see value issues in a market that you see value-along, focusing on issues in the client ' s ecosystem rather than on its own product defects.
Value Added
DBS refers to the process or operation of shaping/transforming the product or service into the final form that the client is willing to purchase.
Value Analysis Value Engineering (VAVE)
Continuous critical review of existing and newly designed functions to achieve the necessary functions in the most economical manner, reducing material and labour costs and activating core growth on a yearly basis.
Value Map
Tools for insight into price/benefit trade-offs in markets, and for mapping price and aggregates of competitive products.
Value Proposition
A one-page value commitment for a target segment profile: it defines the problem being solved, product attributes, enabling technology, credible evidence, and target price.