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Business Needs for 21 st Century
The six Cs' change, complexity, customer demands, competitive pressure, cost impact and constraints characterize today's business needs. All of these factors have great impact on organization's ability to meet its business goals and objectives.
Posted: 01 Oct 2006
Tags: Six Sigma Article DMAIC Finance Gemba Kaizen Lean Operations Pareto Chart
Six Sigma Quality - Linking Customers, Processes and Financial Results
Mr. Jack Welch, ex Chairman of General Electric (GE), in his recent book 'Straight from the gut ' writes that when he learnt that GE was running at 3 to 4 sigma level and the cost saving opportunity of raising this quality to six sigma level was somewhere between US $ 7 to 10 billion, he saw a huge opportunity and decided to go for six sigma. He asked his CEOs to take off their bright and best (only the best) people from their existing jobs to train them in Six Sigma methodology.
Posted: 01 Oct 2006
Tags: Six Sigma Article Enterprise Resource Planning Finance Health Care Marketing
Processes For People
Good processes mitigate people's shortcomings while freeing them up to do what they do best on projects -- think, create, improvise. The best processes don't create extra work. Instead, they serve specific purposes, ensure efficiency and consistency, and tend to become 'invisible' to those who use them.
Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Tags: Article
The People Premium
Every project is dependent upon people, processes and tools. They are how the work gets done. But these three essential elements are not equal. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and provides a different value to our projects.
Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Tags: Article Construction
The Role Of Tools
On the best-run projects, people provide the creativity and intellect, while processes help ensure consistency and efficiency without getting in the way. Striking the right balance between the two can be a powerful combination. And supporting tools, adopted wisely, can make both people and processes even better.
Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Tags: Article
Six Sigma And The Supply Chain
It’s likely to be impossible to achieve Six Sigma performance without managing your suppliers and developing a relationship with them. In managing and improving your processes, one of the early activities will be to develop a high level process map (SIPOC)
Posted: 03 Mar 2006
Tags: Six Sigma Article Process Map United Kingdom
Screening Of Six Sigma Projects 'Success Factors' By Design Of Experiments
Alan Harrison presents the application of Design of Experiments, as a hearing aid in order to ‘hear’ what Six Sigma projects have to say about some of their own key success factors. There is an interactive survey in conjunction with this article which we ask you to briefly complete in order to continue to re-asses the results drawn upon in this paper.
Posted: 03 Mar 2006
Tags: Six Sigma Article Operations Scotland United Kingdom
Lean Holiday In Leaning Tower Country
About six years ago, my family and I wanted to go on a sightseeing tour of Italy, to enjoy unique architecture of Italian cities, delicious cuisine and sunny Mediterranean weather.We applied some (lean/six sigma) thinking and achieved our full satisfaction andwe did actually get more for less.
Posted: 03 Mar 2006
Tags: Six Sigma Article Food Heijunka Lean United Kingdom
