SCF General Knowledge
Data
Core Concepts
Improvement Tools
NHO
100

The 4th "silent" Operational Principle 

Operational Excellence

100

This metric is used to determine whether changes designed to improve one part of the system are causing new problems in other parts of the system

Balancing

100

Tool often used at the beginning of meetings to help build relationship

Check-in
100

Used for brainstorming and grouping like ideas

Affinity
100

The "A" in READI model

Assess Gaps and Possibilities


200

The year CIRI established SCF as a non-profit organization

1982

200

Data display used to show data over time showing the development of patterns

Run chart

200

The inner dialog you think but don't say

Left-hand column


200

Used to identify the source of a variation

Root Cause Analysis

200

The PDP second core competency

Communication and Teamwork

300

The two years SCF has won the Malcolm Baldridge award

2011 and 2017

300

The number of consecutive data points all going up or down to indicate a trend

5
300

Tool used to help avoid making assumptions by understanding the thinking process of how we get from data to decision/action

Ladder of Inference

300

The four stages of Tuckman's model

1) Forming 

2) Storming 

3) Norming 

4) Performing

300

The key work system ODI falls in

Healthcare Support

400

SCF's Vision statement

A native community that enjoys physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness

400

A chart that uses both bars and a line graph to show cumulative total and percentage of total

Pareto

400

The four players in Kantor's Model

1) Move

2) Follow

3) Bystand

4) Oppose

400

Management approach used to eliminate waste and assure product quality, popularized by the Japanese car industry

LEAN

400

The four committees of the Functional Committee Structure

1) Operational

2) Quality Assurance

3) Quality Improvement

4) Process Improvement

500

The meaning of "Nuka" 

"Strong giant structures and living things"

500

The three pillars of the triple aim of healthcare

1) Population Health 

2) Cost per capita 

3) Experience of Care

500

The four dialogic practices

1) Voice 

2) Listen 

3) Respect 

4) Suspend

500

The Japanese organizational theorist, engineering professor,  and inventor of the fishbone model

Kauro Ishikawa

500

Two of the seven key areas of an organization according to Baldrige

1) Leadership 

2) Strategy

3) Customers 

4) Measurement/Analysis/Knowledge Management 

5) Workforce

6) Operations 

7) Results

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