We're in our 4th episode into our series about generating ideas with our team toward action. The first two episodes were all about idea generation. The 3rd was about grouping and exploring ideas.

We’re still considering that we're just after brainstorming, at the point where we have many ideas and no next steps.

Let's instead screen our ideas so we can move toward action. We explore these Quality Tools and how to use them after a brainstorming or other idea-generating team activity:

  • 2x2 chart
  • Systematic list reduction
  • Multivoting or Pareto Voting

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Previous episodes in our series about generating ideas with our team toward action:

Episode 1: Ways to Gather Ideas with a Team

Episode 2: Product Design with Brainstorming, with Emily Haidemenos (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)

Episode 3: After the 'Storm: Group and Explore Ideas

Support the showAbout me Dianna Deeney founded Quality during Design through her company Deeney Enterprises, LLC. Her mission is to bridge product designers to the world's quality initiatives and quality-minded people. She teaches product development engineers how to use quality and reliability methods early in design for risk, use, and technical aspects of a product. Engineers that use quality early and iteratively improve the design and the design process, and it helps them to be recognized as star performers. Her vision is a world of products that are easy to use, dependable, and safe – possible by strategically using Quality during Design for products others love, for less. See more about her products and services at www.QualityDuringDesign.com.

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