Problems to solve
Start with the Basics
It's Fundamental
Go for Growth
Wild Card Category
100

A tool we use to get to true root cause and implement effective, sustainable countermeasures. 

What is PSP or Problem Solving Process?

100

Inventory, Overprocessing, Waiting, unused creativity, Defects, Overproduction, transportation, and Motion

What are the 8 wastes?

100

It is how we ensure sustainment of our KPIs, Policy Deployment and installation of a new process. 

What is Daily Management?

100

The key levers that we have to help us outperform the market, grouped into three areas of growth at Fortive known and the 3D Framework. 

What are Dream, Develop and Deliver?

1. Dream: Generating stronger ideas through deeper customer insights

2. Develop: Improving returns from investment in research and development

3. Deliver: Improving execution to increase and accelerate growth

100

A standard format in which we capture, track and manage activity or actions to help us understand if we are making progress, on track or behind. 

What is an action plan?

200
The necessary four elements of a problem statement.
What is TAGS:  Trend, Actual, Gap, Standard (or Plan)? 
200

An effective, documented, understood, and followed standardized process that enables us to meet or exceed our customers quality, delivery, and cost requirements. 

What is Standard Work?

200

It is how we deploy FBS in a "hands-on" way, at Gemba. It also means Change for the Good, and describes a continuous improvement mindset.

What is Kaizen?
200
Tool and framework we use to understand the customers buying process and the key personas that impact the sale. 

What is Value Selling?

200
It is who we are and how we do what we do.
What is Fortive business Systems (FBS)?
300

A chart using a method that was named after an Italian economist that observed the 80/20 concept used to show where the highest impact is and why. 

What is a pareto charte?

300

It is a visual representation (graph) of data that is plotted over time.  It helps us find trends and patterns over time. We use them in multiple contexts such as Daily management and Problem solving.

What is a run chart?

300

It is a tool that helps us to visually represent all of the process steps and information flows that help us to complete a product or service. 

What is Value Stream Mapping (or VSM)?
300

The different 3 types of Customer Jobs to be done.

What are Functional, Social, Emotional?

1. Functional: Help me do...

2. Social: Help me seem...

3. Emotional: Help me feel...

300

How frequently a product or transaction must be completed to meet customer expectations.

What is Takt time?

400

A gap or miss between actual result and existing plan or given metric, and a gap or miss between the actual and the new desired future plan or metric. 

What is a Caused problem and a Created problem?

400

Set of Tools that are the foundation of FBS and rooted in our Core values: We build extraordinary teams for extraordinary results. 

What are the fundamentals (DM, SW, Experimenting, PSP, TPI, VSM, VOC, Kaizen Basics, 5S)?

400

Testing assumptions and gaining insights in a structured and data driven way.

What is Experimentation?
400

These 3 elements make up the framework of Funnel management at Fortive.

What are: Sales process, Standard KPIs and Targets, and Funnel Review cadence and processes. 

400

A monthly team-based meeting where the business performance related to KPIs and CVDs (Core value drivers) is reviews and actions are taken to deliver on commitments made. 

What is an operating review?

500

Actions that address the root cause and tend to be focused on process creation, an improvement to avoid future problems which are different than Actions that take care of the customer or issue today - relieve an immediate pain of the gap and allow the team to continue problem solving.

What are Permanent countermeasures and Temporary countermeasures?

500
It is how we accelerate the execution of our strategy through a set of tools, way of thinking and working.  It starts with using the company's strategic plan and translating that into breakthrough initiatives using a matrix.   

What is Policy Deployment (PD)?

500

Applying this tool on an ongoing basis enables us to gather insights, an develop or improve products, marketing and sales, and services offered in all areas of business.  It is the method for gathering, analyzing and acting on spoken and unspoken customer needs.

What is Voice of Customer?

500
This selling approach is focused on long term relationships that can provide significant upside via a systematic and disciplined coverage strategy and uses a methodical basis to assess strategic importance in account selection.

What is Key Account Management?

500

50% of the target required to reach the 3-5 Year goals are set in this. 

What is an annual Policy Deployment Breakthrough Objective?

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