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Case Study 1 - Define and Measure
Case Study 1 - Define and Measure
KKNI : C3
Happy Company specializes in selling and delivering industrial hardware products to individual users,
small businesses, and large corporations. Most sales are made by its sales representative (JSRs) in
the Inverness warehouse, Scotland, but more experienced individual and corporate customers buy
direct from its web site.
As the end-of-year is approaching, the company has found out several problems on its Customer
Complaint Division, as it is revealed that a recent survey presents a sharp drop in customer
satisfaction, from 95% to 78%, and complaints about poor customer service were increasing at
alarming rate.
The company’s CEO, Arthur Fleck, seeks some data summarizing a number of calls received during
one business-day on average: 523 calls with distribution as:
• 08,00 – 09.00: 27 calls • 13.00 – 14.00: 33 calls
• 09.00 – 10.00: 121 calls • 14.00 – 15.00: 24 calls
• 10.00 – 11.00: 111 calls • 15.00 – 16.00: 17 calls
• 11.00 – 12.00: 103 calls • 16.00 – 17.00: 51 calls
• 12.00 – 13.00: 36 calls
Mr. Flecks also finds out the most significant drop calls in a day as
Mr. Fleck believes if customers are getting the person they want and when they want them, there
should be few drop calls.
CASE INSTRUCTION:
Your team is hired by the Happy Company to help Mr. Fleck identifying and analyzing cause of problems
he’s experiencing. He also told your team to focus attention on “how to increase customer satisfaction
in Customer Complaint Division”
HOT TIPS:
• You’re in define stage and need to move to measure stage accordingly.
• The output for each stage for this case
o Define: problem statement, including key quality measures; process map
o Measure: prioritization of problem to determine the improvement target
REFERENCES:
The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook, Peter S Pande et. al, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002