The words for the acronym SMART.
What is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound.
$1 spent on prevention will save $10 on correction costs and $100 on failure costs.
What is the 1:10:100 rule?
Acronym that describes the impacts to our workflows when silos are predominant in an organization.
CRIMP: Customer Exp, Resources, Innovation, Morale, Productivity
Direct costs associated with producing a product. Includes direct labor, materials, and overhead.
What is Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)?
Who said "a bad system will beat a good person every time".
Who is W. Edwards Deming?
Strategic measurement tool to understand business performance from an employee, customer, internal process, and financial perspective aligned to daily management metrics (S,D,Q,P,C).
What is a Bowler?
This key tool helps us move away from blaming the human for a mistake and keeps us focused on digging into why the mistake was even possible.
What is Root Cause Analysis?
A team-based, in person, visual process to ensure process discipline and drive daily improvements. Critical metrics are focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People.
What is Tiered Daily Management?
PDSA evolved with this person's vision in 1993.
What is PDSA - Plan, Do, Study, Act
Any deviation from the "Happy Path" and what resources it can take to back to that path.
What is COPQ (Cost of Poor Quality)?
Name 2 of the 3 additional capital analysis tools when considering which projects to approve and fund?
Follow a workflow in person where you ask questions of the team to identify improvement opportunities or barriers to the work and encourage real-time continuous improvement.
What is a Gemba Walk?
An integral part of the IDEXX quality management system describing the process for resolving quality issues.
What is 8D?
To achieve consistent, high dependability with our products and services, we must do this.
What is reduce the variation?
Teams can mature from reactive (fight the fire) to preventive (don't introduce the match & tinder) when focused on creating this.
What is a Culture of Waste Elimination?
True/False: Goals are specific and measurable and tied to a project with a deadline. Metrics are understandable, actionable and ongoing with no "finish line".
What is "True"
Name the four components typically included in standard work.
What are content, sequence, timing, and outcome?
A methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor that stands in the way of achieving a goal.
What is Theory of Constraints?
To achieve a productive change, the effort must have these elements.
What are the five factors of managing change?

What do we call an organizational leadership shift from top-down thinking to more of a coaching/mentoring/teaching style?
3 lines can be plotted on a chart which includes upper and lower control limits along with the center line to represent what aspect of SPC?
What is common cause variation?
Available Production Time \ Customer Demand =??
Takt Time
A tool that helps drive and align clarity on problems and solutions and will ensure accountability to both process and results
What is an A3?
These are calculated from the actual process performance.
What are control limits?
Name the 3 pillars of our IDEXX Excellence System (IES).
What are Daily Management, Continuous Improvement, Strategic Initiatives?