Creating a Six Sigma Workplace
Organizations embarking on the journey to process excellence have much to gain if appropriate actions are taken in the early stages of deployment.
Creating a Sustainable Innovation Process
Today’s hyper-competitive business environment is creating a need for even more new products, new services, and new processes. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) offers a generalized and effective approach for designing new products and services from the ground up.
Don’t Think Logically!
A physics exam question asked students to describe how they would use a barometer to measure the height of a skyscraper. One student who failed the test contested that his answer was correct.
Articulating the Business Problem
"We have had a series of power outages even though we have central and local uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems. This disruption causes a loss of service to our customers.
Six Sigma and Leadership
When organizations decide to deploy a Six Sigma initiative, there are several foundation stones requ
The Balanced Scorecard and Beyond
We examined the practices and major problems that can easily occur in the use of balanced scorecards in the June 3 issue of InsideSixSigma.The Balanced Scorecard and Beyond
We examined the practices and major problems that can easily occur in the use of balanced scorecards in the June 3 issue of InsideSixSigThe Balanced Scorecard and Beyond
Over the years, scorecards have progressed through many changes, good and bad.Six Sigma Busy Work
Manufacturing firms intent on capturing and distilling rich streams of data will find them. Companies will often look at a capability maturity model (CMM) in rows and columns—a format common across many industries and many applications—in Excel.