Posts in category Implementation

More governments continue to adopt Lean Six Sigma methodology, convinced of its benefits to taxpayers. It’s already worked for governments in Houston, Miami-Dade County and Kern County, California. Now it’s …

Human Resources and Six Sigma aren’t often mentioned together, and there’s a good reason. HR is difficult to analyze objectively. It’s not manufacturing. It’s not labor. So much of the …

Everything in your life is a process. The coffee you brewed this morning. Your commute to work. The lunch you packed. The apps you launched. The conversations you had. It’s …

If you run the phrase “Lean Six Sigma” through a search engine, you’ll find hundreds of stories about organizations benefiting from process improvement. There are case studies about huge corporations …

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 …

If there was ever a group that could benefit from the principles of Lean and Six Sigma, it would be the nonprofits. It’s not that they have more waste and …

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 …

Companies are continually working to improve performance, quality and efficiency in order to achieve optimum growth and customer satisfaction. However, every now and then, most organizations need to stop and …