Classical Management tools

These tools are the ones that people are being using through many years, so that
proves that this tools are effective in this management process. This tools are basic
graphs and statistics. So this tools look for:
Mean: the center value of a series of data points that is affected for his
maximum or minimum values
Maximum: The maximum value of a series of data points
Minimum: The minimum value of a series of data points
Sample size: The number of value in a series of data points
Range: The value between the maximum and the minimum value
Standard Deviation: Describe how the values are spread around the mean
So that mean that this tools are based on statistics and we have to learn the
different type of graphs that there are, so we can use the one that most fits in our
goals of what we want to know.

Pie Charts
This kind of graphs show us the all data set in a pie
and every slice of that pie stands for a percent or an
amount of data of the all set, its a simple way to
show in a very graphic way a simple data set.

Bar Charts
This ones are a little more descriptive that the
pie charts and you can compare your results
with more data sets to see a better analysis.
But you had to be aware that the scale you
use in your bar charts because the variation
of scales can give to you a confusing view
about what you are analyzing. Also you had to
be assure that the classes that you are using
are all equal.

Run Charts
This type of charts show us the
performance over the time,
show the highs and lows of a
process through time. They can
contain more the one variable to
study showing them in different
lines. This can be useful for
analysis of a process through
time so you can see the period
where you had for example
better sales and the period when you had just a few sales, so that give you an
advice to start for analyze those periods to improve more your sales.

Radar Charts
This ones are very useful when you are
analyzing many characteristic of one item,
many factors of an item. So while you had more
points closer to the center of the radar that
means a low value and while you had more
points far from the center that means high
values, so the shape of the graph will give you
an idea of where to improve.

Scatter Plots
Scatter plots or also called scatter diagrams are
used to investigate the relation between two
variables, how what thing affect to the other
through time. But they arent always too accurate
because sometimes there are three variables
that affect a process.
You can draw an imaginary line to see what
points are closer to the goal that you are looking
for.
Histograms
Its like a kind of bar chart, but you can had an idea of
how frequently the data in each class occurs in the
data set, by setting your values in periods of times.
One of the weaknesses of this graph is that it only
shows to you one part of the big one history.

Pareto Charts
This one show us the percentage of the
problem that we are studying, to see
sometimes that just a few factors are
causing the most part of the problems.
They let us see what variables had more
impact and affect the other areas of the
process.

Cause and Effect

Theyre shape is most like a skeleton fish where the bones are the different types
of variables that are affecting the problem and the spine will be the central idea.
This ones help us to explore all the
potential or real causes, help us to
search for some root causes, and
identify the areas where there may
be problems.
Flowcharts
This one show us the full process, every step for example of an ensemble line, this
one it has to be done by people who is really involved in the process so they can
describe every step of the process, to see if there are areas we can skip some
task, or improve other ones or make simultaneous task to reduce the time of a
process.
There are three types of flowcharts:
High-level flowcharts map only the major steps in a process for a good
review

Detailed flowcharts show a step-by-step mapping of all events and decisions

in a process

Deployment flowcharts which organize the flowchart by columns, with each

column representing a person or department involved in a process.