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Successfully implementing Six Sigma depends on numerous factors that are not necessarily related to the work itself, such as the company’s culture and the commitment of upper management and project …

It’s rare when popular culture uses Six Sigma principles to entertain the masses. It is rarer still when that entertainment incorporates professional sports. The rarest of the rare is when …

More and more small businesses are recognizing how Six Sigma’s methodologies and tools can benefit them just as much as the big corporations who are implementing multiple Six Sigma projects …

You may be familiar with the urban legend of the time-traveling hipster. It stems from an image that has been circulating on the internet for a few years now. But …

For Six Sigma projects to achieve impressive bottom-line results, they must be accurately defined. Six Sigma projects that are properly defined will typically meet certain criteria: they are approved by …

Being an innovative leader means making tough decisions that can involve prioritizing one competing project over another. Upon first glance, it may seem like various projects would yield similar successes, …

Completing a Six Sigma project is cause for celebration. A dedicated project team has worked tirelessly to apply the tools and techniques of Six Sigma to create a new process …

The Analyze phase of DMAIC helps project teams identify problems in the production process that cause product defects. This phase of Six Sigma methodology is loaded with tools to help …

How Variations on Traditional Brainstorming Can Boost Impact of Business Projects Brainstorming has become almost ubiquitous in business today, and small wonder. Done right, it’s an effective way of harnessing …

What is Six Sigma, and how can Six Sigma training reduce costs? Six Sigma can refer to a metric, a management philosophy, a business strategy or a methodology. In many companies, it means striving for near perfection by continuously measuring and analyzing data, to reduce variations in quality, eliminate product defects and malfunctions, and reduce service failures. Its methods for improving quality and efficiency are as important as reducing costs, but our focus will be on the latter.