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Using Lean Six Sigma to Improve Employee Engagement
People often see Lean Six Sigma as a method to ‘make a better workplace’ instead of realizing it is equally an important tool for improving employee engagement. Therefore, it’s important to understand...
View ArticleCan Innovation and Lean Six Sigma Coincide?
Companies often introduce Lean Six Sigma because it is an effective way to cut costs and improve profitability. A very powerful tool indeed. However, what if your company goals include innovation? Can...
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Lean Six Sigma Can Help You Achieve ‘Aha’ Moments
Scotty An ‘aha’ moment is a moment of clarity, when all the pieces of a puzzle come together and seamlessly converge to form that perfect realization of what needs to happen next. Terri Stentz,...
View ArticleThe Future of Six Sigma 2013 Update
I am often asked my opinion regarding the future of Six Sigma. Regarding the future of Six Sigma, it continues on despite rumors of its death which began shortly after its birth in the 1980s. For those...
View ArticleCan Lean Six Sigma Make CSI Better?
While the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) teams on television may be able to resolve a case in under an hour, real life criminal cases can take days, weeks, months, even years to finish. And like many...
View Article3 Vital Things to Learn about Lean Six Sigma in Under 30 Seconds
Errors rob your company of money. Money you could use to hire workers, increase wages, add new benefits, purchase new equipment, and more. You probably don’t even see the loss. But every time one of...
View ArticlecGMP and Continuous Improvement
A student in my Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course who works in the pharmaceutical industry was concerned that improvement methodologies such as Lean and Kaizen conflicted with the Current Good...
View ArticleLean Six Sigma and Genchi Genbutsu: The Importance of Seeing for Yourself
The goal of Lean Six Sigma, in brief, is to give customers and other stakeholders what they want by focusing on customer needs and maintaining superior quality and minimal waste. This system combines...
View ArticleLean Six Sigma and the 80/20 Rule
Most businesses recognize the importance of efficiency. Getting the job done at the lowest cost, with the smallest margin of error, and best results are goals of every company, no matter how they...
View ArticleLean Six Sigma is Mission Critical
This is a guest post provided by an MBA, who previously worked in a sales writing and analysis position for a defense contractor that successfully employed Lean Six Sigma. ———————————— Working in sales...
View ArticleMolex, Inc. on the Benefits of Lean Six Sigma
Molex Inc., which supplies interconnect products, has recently been using the Lean Six Sigma program with great success. The company has saved millions of dollars using the program, and clients have...
View ArticleReduce the Cost of Quality with Lean Six Sigma
The cost of quality involves the price organizations pay for inefficient and wasteful operations. Inspections, scrap, over-processing and rework all narrow profit margins and potentially lead to poor...
View ArticleLean Six Sigma: Implementing Process Improvement
Lean Six Sigma and the profitable process improvement in businesses go hand in hand especially where the main objective is to ramp up on productivity. The harsh economic downturn made it more important...
View ArticleHarnessing the Power of Six Sigma in a Mobile World
The world today is dominated by digital technology. All it takes is a glance at the commercials on TV or on the web to see that. With new mobile technologies such as cell phones and tablet computers...
View ArticleSix Sigma And The SME Environment
Motorola, General Electric and Samsung are just three examples of major companies who have used Six Sigmamethodology to improve their business. There are many other global businesses which have used...
View ArticleSix Sigma – It’s All About Service
A number of the world’s most famous companies have products which are, objectively speaking, nothing special. In a way this is hardly surprising; truly extraordinary products are, by definition, rare....
View ArticleNot So Young Frankenstein
Let’s say you were a modern day Dr. Frankenstein and you decided you wanted to bring an organizational creature to life. Let’s further say you were a nefarious Dr. Frankenstein and the organizational...
View ArticleHow Lean Six Sigma Benefits Society and Your Company
In a recent post to the ReliablePlant blog the ability of Lean Six Sigma to achieve dramatic improvements in quality and sustainability were discussed. The article made recommendations for how plants...
View ArticleThe versatility of Lean Six Sigma: it’s not just for manufacturing
Recently, Priya Sinha Cloutier, of law firm Lane Powell’s Seattle office wrote a piece entitled Lean Six Sigma: it’s not just for manufacturing. In it, she detailed the history of Lean Six Sigma, as...
View ArticleBuild Continuous Improvement into the Business Plan
Continuous improvement means applying democratic principles to the running of day-to-day operation of a business. These ideas came from the experience of Japanese companies during the reconstruction of...
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