Posts tagged six sigma implementation

The Project Management Institute (PMI) published some startling numbers in their 2018 Pulse of the Profession report… Organizations, on average, waste almost one cent of every dollar they invest. No …

The perfect business solution doesn’t exist. There’s no catch-all organizational structure, no bullet-proof product development strategies, and no one-size-fits-all sales tactics. Every business has different needs, which means no single …

Six Sigma has proven to work for huge companies like Motorola and GE, which accumulate a lot of waste and redundancy because of their sheer size. But what about smaller …

Imagine it’s Christmas Eve and you are the parent of child about to receive their first bicycle. The only issue is this: You’ve got one night to put it together. …

Faced with a tight budget, like so many other local governments around the country, officials in King County, Washington, began in 2013 to search for ways to maximize the benefits …

Applied Technical Services’ (ATS) story characterizes what makes a winner of IndustryWeek magazine’s prestigious “Best Plants” awards. In just two years, Applied Technical Services (ATS) has gone from a plant …

A medical center in Amsterdam, concerned over the failure to consistently dispatch medical reports in a timely manner, utilized a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) initiative to study the underlying problems …

The primary goal of Six Sigma is to eliminate defects in a process. The desired outcome is improved quality and efficiency for the business. This overall result is achieved by streamlining …

A recent project bringing together the best of Six Sigma and Lean at the help desk of a financial services firm in India yielded significant results in reduced customer response …

Kaizen – the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement – is the ultimate objective of Lean Six Sigma. While Kaizen is normally thought of in association with manufacturing processes and how they can …