People generally ignore the Kill ideas as being not worth the effort. Generally, you choose the Implement ideas first – easy to do and a high impact. High impact, hard to implement – Challenge.High impact, easy to implement – Implement.
Often the four quadrants are labeled as one of the PICK letters: Today we introduced our brand new Idea Board here at VIBCO: /cNJClpSGjP While the PICK chart is used at health systems like ThedaCare, here's a picture that was recently tweeted by my friend Karl Wadensten at his manufacturing company, VIBCO:
The concept was supposedly invented at Lockheed Martin, but it's a pretty common-sensical approach that's used to sort and rank ideas based on two dimensions: The so-called “ PICK chart” has become a pretty common sight in healthcare as a way of visualizing and prioritizing Lean or Kaizen improvement ideas.
