Yes, I’ve recently watched “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”. That Island of Misfit Toys really got to me. Toys that have been assembled in unconventional ways, yearning to be applied in unique fashions. I started thinking about the “Misfit Tools” in our profession – those tools that sit behind the Pareto Diagram and the Process Map on every event “shelf”. They seldom see the light of day, but when they do, they ROCK!

So…cast your votes. My personal favorites are the Interrelationship Digraph and the Nominal Group Technique.

How about you?