Try This Today: Flip the Focus
Try This Today: Flip the Focus
A new approach to documenting project benefits
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- June 2026
- Issue:
- Volume 59 Issue 6
- Pages:
- pp. 56
- Author(s):
- Kumar, Satish
- Organization(s):
- Worldwide Clinical Trials, San Antonio, TX
Abstract
Often, organizations focus on problem solving but lack structured methods to document project successes. The reverse fishbone diagram (RFD) flips the traditional fishbone diagram’s problem-analysis approach to capture and categorize project benefits after solutions or change is implemented successfully. This innovative method ensures no success is overlooked and provides a structured framework for continuous improvement efforts.