When working on improvement projects it can be difficult to gain buy in and consensus from within the team on which ideas to go for.
Whether you are trying to decide which problems to work on or which solutions to try out first, there are a number of methods and tools that can help the group prioritise. In the past I have found these two to be particularly useful:
- Ease-Benefit Matrix - for high level prioritisation with clear distinction between ideas
- Nominal Group Technique - for ranking those ideas that have less obvious differences