Balancing the way we think

As companies move forward in the assessment of their success and failures, many identify a need for better project management.  Typically, structure is desired but not so much structure that the team is caught up in an endless loop chasing perfection.  Occassionally teams should come up for air and take a broad look at what they are doing in order to identify impacts to upstream and downstream processes.  Teams should utilize a mixture of product and process expertise with DMAIC or DMADV tools in a balanced manner.