Practical Application in the Workplace

After the quality control has been done, companies are able to start applying new techniques to improve the workplace.  One of the methods suggested is to start using continuous data, like the average sales per region as opposed to sales per day.  This allows workers to draw more/better generalizations from the data overall.  In the long run this allows businesses to find more effective data collecting methods and make subsequent improvements over time. 

Another implementation in the workplace is training workers to be better organized.  They are trained to keep their workspaces in better order and for some workers to keep a better eye on the inventory.  By keeping better tabs and organization on what’s going on in the process and production the workplace becomes much more efficient.  By taking part in these methods companies are able to monitor ongoing performance and if something comes up that is wrong it is much more easily and efficiently corrected. 

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