The Greatest Waste
Question:What do you call it when a quality manager is caught cheating on a quality exam?
Answer:Benchmarking
Online Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification Test
(SBTI: San Marcos, Texas) -- Sigma Breakthrough Technologies Inc., an international business process solutions consulting firm is now offering lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification testing online.
Six Sigma and Innovation
Six Sigma promoters and innovation advocates have emerged as opposing camps in the battle for tool supremacy in the organization improvem
Homoscedasticity
For the last couple of columns, we have been analyzing a simple experiment where we look for the best choice for a new gear material.
Business Process Management Spring Summit
(IQPC: London) -- Top companies will be sharing their case studies at IQPC’s Business Process Management Spring Summit on April 14–17 at the Intercontinental West Miami Hotel in Miami, Florida.
NCQA Certifies Eight Software Vendors
(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently announced the certification of eight leading software vendors for their Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)-related software.
ISO/IEC Standard for IT Disaster Recovery
(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO/IEC 24762:2008—“Information technology—Security techniques—Guidelines for information and communications technology disaster recovChanging to Lean, Part 2
As is the case with any lean implementation in a traditional environment, culture change is the most difficult obstacle to success. A company can hire consultants, develop work teams, and begin lean initiatives, but if it only talks the talk, the initiative soon becomes just talk.
Changing to Lean, Part 2
As is the case with any lean implementation in a traditional environment, culture change is the most difficult obstacle to success.
Establishing Datum Reference Frames
What’s a datum reference frame?