Workshop 5: PICK Charts

Situation:

Consider that you/your group works for the City of Houston and you have been tasked with increasing the amount of waste that is recycled each year. In the Improve phase of your Lean Six Sigma project, you need to identify methods for getting more residential neighborhoods to participate in recycling programs. So, you decide to do some benchmarking and investigate what other cities, etc. have done to increase recycling. Then, you will use a PICK chart to determine the idea(s)/solution(s) you will implement in Houston to increase residential recycling.

Instructions:

• Search for information using Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/), Google Books (http://books.google.com/), ASQs online resources (http://asq.org/knowledge-center/search/), or through the UH Library (http://guides.lib.uh.edu/tels4342 - note, this is available for UH students only)

After you have identified a list of ideas/potential solutions to increase recycling in residential neighborhoods, proceed with using a PICK chart to select the best ideas.

Activities:

1. List your ideas/potential solutions to increase recycling in residential neighborhoods based on your benchmarking activities, labeling each with a unique identifier:
2. Create a PICK chart that depicts the evaluation of each of your ideas/potential solutions: Note: Simply double click on the text box below to enter the unique identifier of one of your ideas/potential solutions, and then move it to the appropriate place in the chart based on the scales provided. This can be copied and pasted into the chart to show the unique identifiers for each of your ideas/potential solutions listed in Activity #1 of this Workshop.

Based on the PICK chart you created for Activity #2 of this Workshop, what ideas/solutions are:

3. 1. Possible ideas for plan B:
   2. Implement ideas to implement now:
   3. Challenge ideas to change/modify:
   4. Kill ideas to abandon:
4. Describe one example of how you would change or modify one challenge idea.