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Excellence in Healthcare with Lean Six Sigma This 9-page whitepaper discusses the application of Lean Six Sigma in the Healthcare industry. The roles Lean Six Sigma can play in Healtcare as well as some success stories are presented. Download now History of Six Sigma This short 10-slide powerpoint provides an overview of the history of Six Sigma, tracing its roots from the "normal curve" to GE's global promotion and beyond. Download now Changing the Compliance Formula .. and Improving Competitiveness An executive brief that discusses the importance of basic process management and improvement discipline for effectively and efficiently managing compliance requirements and the risks associated with those requriements. Download now Design Basics - QFD Overview A high-level overview of QFD and how it can be applied to drive good, customer-focused designs by aligning technical / product / service requirements with real customer requirements. Download now VOC Deployment and Maturity Model Download now
Why Six Sigma Is on the Downslope - Tom Davenport
by Tom Davenport | 9:25 PM January 7, 2008 I was never a big fan of Six Sigma. As approaches to business process improvement and management go, it always had some glaring shortcomings. First, there was all the statistical mumbo-jumbo it implied — but seldom delivered on in most companies’ implementations. Second, it didn’t incorporate information technology — arguably the most powerful force available for improving (or screwing up) processes — in any way. Third, it was overly elitist. So what’s the best alternative to Six Sigma for process improvement? Companies should also incorporate some techniques for combining process change with the information systems they’re installing. I hope that when companies start getting excited again about process improvement, they resist one method for doing so. Read all of Tom Davenport’s “Next Big Thing” posts.
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Unit #5. Six Sigma | Logistics4Dummies
Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1981.[1] As of 2010, it enjoys widespread application in many sectors of industry, although its application is not without controversy. Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturingand business processes.[2] It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization (“Black Belts”, “Green Belts”, etc.) who are experts in these methods.[2] Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified targets. These targets can be financial (cost reduction or profit increase) or whatever is critical to the customer of that process (cycle time, safety, delivery, etc.).[2] Historical overview Like its predecessors, Six Sigma doctrine asserts that: Methods
TRACtion Lean Six Sigma Project Tracking and Management
TRACtion - A Tool for the Entire Team TRACtion pricing is a function of several factors, the foremost of which is level of usage. We believe that ALL team members should be empowered to access and view project data, status updates, summaries, and project tools on an as-needed basis. To encourage deployments to involve all their team members in project management, we do not charge for licensed usage by team members (e.g., non-team leaders, process owners). We only charge annually for "Power Users" - our term for the group of your practitioners who will gain the most value from TRACtion. Power Users are the heaviest users of TRACtion's features (e.g., Team Leaders, Champions, and Financial Auditors). How Is TRACtion Priced? TRACtion is licensed per year and is based on the number of Power Users in your company. Example If you have 10 Team Leaders (Black or Green Belts) and 2 Champions, you would need to license TRACtion for 12 Power Users. Contact Us to Discuss Pricing
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I would like to know more about six sigma certification and the eligibility criteria Six Sigma at many organizations simply means a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects (driving towards six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process — from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service. The statistical representation of Six Sigma describes quantitatively how a process is performing. To achieve Six Sigma, a process must not produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. A Six Sigma defect is defined as anything outside of customer specifications. The fundamental objective of the Six Sigma methodology is the implementation of a measurement-based strategy that focuses on process improvement and variation reduction through the application of Six Sigma improvement projects. Who and What Type of Training?
MIT article comparing Lean, TQM, Six Sigma, “and related enterprise process improvement methods” | Michel Baudin's Blog
Last week, my Suggested Content on Scoop.It! contained a link to a May, 2010 working paper from MIT's Engineering Systems Division (ESD) by Kirkor Bozdogan, entitled Towards an integration of the Lean enterprise system, total quality management, six sigma, and related enterprise process improvement methods . For a scoop, it is a bit stale but it nonetheless caught my attention and I would like to supplement Bozdogan's academic perspective with my implementation experience. Describing these approaches as "complementary," as Bozdogan does, avoids controversy, but I don't believe it is accurate. Exposure to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest in manufacturing, in Japan in 1980, but then I immediately went to work in the semiconductor industry, where TPS is not much of a fit. The sequence of topics is as follows: Brands versus Science Product developed to match its name Sometimes, the name is coined before the content is developed. This is not a criticism of consultants.
Six Sigma Training and 6 Sigma Certification
