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What Comes After the Low Hanging Fruit?
Making smart choices about lean Six Sigma applications
There are four major approaches for organisation wide improvement efforts that fall under the label “lean Six Sigma,”
as evidenced by current practices at many industrial organisations, service organisations and consulting firms:
Traditional Six Sigma (TSS)
Lean Six Sigma plus (LSS+)
Lean Six Sigma light (LSSL)
Traditional lean (TL)
Each has its own strengths, but how do you determine which deploy... Read Full Story
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From: sigmapro.co.uk
What Comes After the Low Hanging Fruit?
Making smart choices about lean Six Sigma applications
There are four major approaches for organisation wide improvement efforts that fall under the label “lean Six Sigma,”
as evidenced by current practices at many industrial organisations, service organisations and consulting firms:
Traditional Six Sigma (TSS)
Lean Six Sigma plus (LSS+)
Lean Six Sigma light (LSSL)
Traditional lean (TL)
Each has its own strengths, but how do you determine which deploy... Read Full Story
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How to Identify and Select Lean Six Sigma Projects
Lean Six Sigma is a powerful method for improving existing products, processes and services. Six Sigma was developed by Motorola in 1987. Motorola’s Six Sigma yielded significant financial results and became popular with many other companies, even though Six Sigma was practiced without the benefit of the define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) strategy, Black Belts (BBs), or a defined project selection process.
In the mid-... Read Full Story
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How to Identify and Select Lean Six Sigma Projects
Lean Six Sigma is a powerful method for improving existing products, processes and services. Six Sigma was developed by Motorola in 1987. Motorola’s Six Sigma yielded significant financial results and became popular with many other companies, even though Six Sigma was practiced without the benefit of the define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) strategy, Black Belts (BBs), or a defined project selection process.
In the mid-... Read Full Story
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How to identify and select a Six Sigma project.
There is usually no shortage of projects to work on in an organisation, in fact there are nearly always too many. However these can be conflicting in both objectives and resources used to carry out these projects.
For example a sales department may be under pressure to convert more business through its sales pipeline, whereas the operations department is struggling to cope with the variety of work. The two departments are not strategically align... Read Full Story
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How to identify and select a Six Sigma project.
There is usually no shortage of projects to work on in an organisation, in fact there are nearly always too many. However these can be conflicting in both objectives and resources used to carry out these projects.
For example a sales department may be under pressure to convert more business through its sales pipeline, whereas the operations department is struggling to cope with the variety of work. The two departments are not strategically align... Read Full Story
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Experience has shown that obtaining organisational support for a Six Sigma project is one of the major success factors, and anyone attempting to undertake a project without the necessary support will find it a very difficult and unpleasant task.
So what we can we do to ensure we get the support we need?
The tool set we use to obtain support in Six Sigma is called ‘Stakeholder Analysis’, and it consists of five simple steps:
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Identify project stakeholders (individuals or groups)
Define the cu... Read Full Story
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Experience has shown that obtaining organisational support for a Six Sigma project is one of the major success factors, and anyone attempting to undertake a project without the necessary support will find it a very difficult and unpleasant task.
So what we can we do to ensure we get the support we need?
The tool set we use to obtain support in Six Sigma is called ‘Stakeholder Analysis’, and it consists of five simple steps:
?
Identify project stakeholders (individuals or groups)
Define the cu... Read Full Story
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How do we actually make this Lean Six Sigma thing work for us?
Once you’ve made the decision to deploy Lean Six Sigma you then need to plan the deployment to make sure it succeeds. A deployment is a big undertaking for an organisation and usually involves significant investment of energy, commitment and funding, and so you need to make sure every aspect is covered, every eventually foreseen. Many companies have been through the deployment scenario – and some have got the scars to show for ... Read Full Story
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From: sigmapro.co.uk
How do we actually make this Lean Six Sigma thing work for us?
Once you’ve made the decision to deploy Lean Six Sigma you then need to plan the deployment to make sure it succeeds. A deployment is a big undertaking for an organisation and usually involves significant investment of energy, commitment and funding, and so you need to make sure every aspect is covered, every eventually foreseen. Many companies have been through the deployment scenario – and some have got the scars to show for ... Read Full Story
