When To Use a Fishbone Diagram

Fishbone diagrams work for most entrepreneurs and almost any industry or person having a problem. Professional diagramming software may help you create Fishbone (Cause and Effect or Ishikawa) diagrams. When people are unclear about what is causing an issue, ConceptDraw PRO will be your lifesaver. When to use a Fishbone diagram? Originally developed as a quality control tool, you may find a Fishbone diagram helpful when used in many cases, such as to analyze a complex problem when there are many causes, for identifying all possible root causes for an effect or a problem, when you need different point of view to look on a problem, to uncover bottlenecks and identify where and why a process doesn't work, for acceleration a process when traditional ways of problem solving consume many time.

Fishbone Diagram

The use of specific types of visual diagrams is effective way to problems solving and decisions making. Fishbone diagram is a graphical tool used for visual and systematical analyzing the relationships between the solved problem and causes affecting its occurrence. It has hierarchical structure and that's why is well-suited for capturing in a mind map for a process of reviewing what branch is a real root cause of a given issue. ConceptDraw Office products and PM solutions offered by ConceptDraw STORE give the powerful help in questions of planning and project management. ConceptDraw PRO and ConceptDraw MINDMAP applications perfectly suit for designing professional-looking Fishbone Diagrams and allow effectively identify the root causes of quality issues using the Fishbone diagrams. The PM Response solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is powerful for improvement the response time to project changes, helps with iteration planning, with solving project challenges and discussing project layout approaches.

Fishbone Diagram Design Element

ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Fishbone Diagrams solution is a perfect tool for software designers and software developers. If you need to create Cause and Effect diagram, Fishbone diagram, Ishikawa diagram from templates and examples, or using the predesigned elements, ConceptDraw PRO can do this easily. ConceptDraw PRO software gives ability to design Fishbone diagrams that identify many possible causes for an effect for problem. Each Fishbone diagram design element included to Fishbone Diagrams library is vector and ready-to-use.

Fishbone Diagram

Fishbone diagram or Cause and Effect diagram resembles to the fish and is dedicated to representing of a single effect and multiple causes. Fishbone diagram is effective technique to determine the root causes and solve any problem or business task, identify the defects and eliminate them, detect the inefficiencies of a product or process, that's why Fishbone diagram is popular for using in business, product development, management, quality improvement, etc. It is well known that any problems begin from the head, so the first the Fishbone diagram includes the head that depicts a problem, task or question that is need to be analyzed. The bones on the fish body depict all causes, which contribute to the overall effect or a problem. Fishbone diagram is also sufficiently effective for visual organizing the causes that were defined during the brainstorming session. ConceptDraw MINDMAP application is a unique software with powerful capabilities of problem solving, holding brainstorming sessions, and drawing effective and professional-looking Fishbone diagrams.

Improving Problem Solving and Focus with Fishbone Diagrams

When you need to focus on the problem, professional diagramming tool helps you create a Fishbone diagram also known as Ishikawa diagram. Understanding of the problem via Fishbone diagram will improve the processes between departments and teams. ConceptDraw PRO extended with Fishbone Diagrams solution gives a powerful tool for improving problem solving and focus with Fishbone diagrams.

8 Step Problem Solving

Time by time the problems appear in any field of our life and activities, and we can't to escape this. Any problem always has a certain content, the reasons and the circle of involved people. But the main task of any human, any organization, any company that was faced with a problem, is not to get lost and vice versa confidently look for the ways of solving this problem. The first you need to clarify the problem's essence, then to breakdown your problem and set a target. The most responsible step is to identify the cause-effect relationship, because each problem has its own root causes, and their detection will allow qualitatively solve this problem and avoid the similar problems in a future. Then you need to develop the countermeasures to counter the root cause of the problem and to make sure in their effectiveness, that they lead to the desired results. And finally standardize successful processes. This Mind Map designed with help of ConceptDraw MINDMAP software represents step-by-step the 8 steps approach of solving any kind of product or service problems.

Relations Diagram

The Relations Diagram is used to identify how the factors influence each other, to determine what factors are causes and what are effects. The factors mostly influencing are called “drivers”, the primarily affected factors are “indicators”. The problem solving is focused on the change of "drivers" factors by applying the corrective actions. The "indicators" factors help establish the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor the changes and also define the effectiveness of the corrective actions in resolving a problem. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software ideally suits for designing Relations Diagrams. The easiest way to create the MINDMAP Relations Diagram, is to use the included Relations Diagram input template. Open it in ConceptDraw MINDMAP application from the Input tab and hold a new brainstorming session, identify the central issue and the contributing factors to this issue. Click the Finish Brainstorm button to generate a Mind Map and begin the further work with it, or select Relations Diagram item from the Output tab to automatically draw it in ConceptDraw PRO application.

Business Productivity - Quality

Quality control is a process directed on the maintaining of proper standards in manufacturing and engineering, on the monitoring of manufacturing defects and their elimination. The quality control process is quite capacious and extensive, and in many cases requires the use of specialized software in help to quality managers, to facilitate their work. This process will be effective with Flowcharts and Mind Maps that are recognized as the main tools in quality management, and are perfect for visualization the key quality points, quality instructions and depiction in details the quality control process. The ideal software for Mind Maps design is offered by ConceptDraw Office suite, it is a ConceptDraw MINDMAP. The Quality Mind Maps solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park and ConceptDraw MINDMAP application provide creative and professional approach to business productivity and visualization quality processes. They support you in tasks of drawing Quality Management Diagrams and Mind Maps, such as Value Stream Maps, Total Quality Management Mind Maps, Quality Management Presentations, Quality Meeting Diagrams, etc.