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Quality Function Deployment (QFD). How do you develop new services?. Typical product development process. A company crisis prompts action… Angry customer Hot selling product/service from competitor Obsolescence Negative Reactionary Impacts Poor selling dud Hot selling, but defective
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How do you develop new services? Presented by XONITEK Corporation
Typical product development process... • A company crisis prompts action… • Angry customer • Hot selling product/service from competitor • Obsolescence • Negative Reactionary Impacts • Poor selling dud • Hot selling, but defective • Lots of development but no product/service Presented by XONITEK Corporation
When should you use QFD? • Incremental Innovation • Making improvements to an existing service • (Easy to gather customer needs) • Operations Planning • Matching a set of equipment/operators/IT resources to a set of product families/service offerings • Human Resource Strategy • Comparing current employee skillsets to the results of a strategic planning process Presented by XONITEK Corporation
The QFD Approach, Step 1 • Identify the Customer • External • Market segment? • Use profile? • Key success factors? • Internal • Why is this product/process needed? • Is it really valuable to meeting external customer demands? • Establish the project team! Presented by XONITEK Corporation
The QFD Approach, Step 2 • Gather Needs Data • Surveys • Focus Groups • Studies • Complaints • The Blogosphere • Your competitors’ products Goal: Product features + relative importance Presented by XONITEK Corporation
The QFD Approach, Step 3 • Organize the Input • Affinity Diagrams Find key concepts • Tree Diagrams Identify Cause and effect • Pareto Charts Quantify results for factors Be careful not to “bias” the results; Ensure this is really the customers’ voice. Presented by XONITEK Corporation
The QFD Approach, Step 4 • Build the QFD, incorporating… • Customer needs • Design requirements • Ability to deliver on requirements • Competitors’ performance Examples to follow… Presented by XONITEK Corporation
How the QFD is Built…. Design Correlation Table The elemental structure of the house… Design How’s Or Company offerings Category Header Customer and Competitor Ratings Customer “What” Or “Needs” Customer and Engineering/Company Relationships Technical Ranking Technical Values for Objectives Presented by XONITEK Corporation
Building the Relationships… 2 Develop the relationship between a customer’s Needs and a Gym’s Offerings…. The Customer Needs are derived from interviews and surveys…. Company Offerings 1 Customer Needs First list the customer needs and the company’s offerings 1 2 Presented by XONITEK Corporation