Posts in category Implementation

We know that Six Sigma has found a happy home in the healthcare sector, helping to address everything from patient safety to resource utilization. So too has Lean established its relevance …

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 …

Every business has functions that are less efficient than desirable, driving up costs and resulting in missed opportunities. For the banking industry, the loan processing methodology stands out as a primary …

There’s no question that Lean Six Sigma has earned its position as one of the most important management methodologies ever devised for operational improvement. Its deployment alone speaks to it: …

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 …

Project failure is more common than we would like to think. In spite of careful planning, strong management support and a team’s best efforts projects come in overdue, over budget …

Data warehousing can be made more efficient and errors in its processes can be greatly reduced by using Six Sigma methodology. Quality and improvement specialists recognize Six Sigma as the …

It may surprise you to know that as many as 80% of Six Sigma projects fail to increase quality as much as anticipated. How is it possible that a methodology …

Like their counterparts in manufacturing, today’s farmers know that efficiency is the ultimate controllable factor in commodity margins. Doing more with less – and doing it better – is the …

It’s been less than a year since newly installed El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez proposed a budget that, among other items, allocated $50,000 for Lean Six Sigma training. Results …