When Your Management Staff Is Losing Ground

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
It may seem like a small problem but when people lose momentum within a position in a company this tends to have a negative effect on the entire company. Of course, people do tend to become complacent in their jobs and it is for this reason that those in upper management must find new and better ways to keep their employees...

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Categories: Six Sigma

Getting The Most Out Of Your Employees In The Coming Year

Tuesday, January 10, 2012
A new year is upon us and most companies and managers are looking for ways to improve their business in the coming year. Some are making changes internally while others are looking towards outside resources and successful businesses for the answers they seek. It is a dog eat dog world and when it comes to making the most out of your...

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Categories: Six Sigma

Calculating COPQ Using Weighted Risk of Potential Failures

Monday, January 02, 2012
One of the first steps in identifying the cost of poor quality calculation is to do the financial analysis from Six Sigma, which is used to reason the logic of starting and initiating a new project. The biggest challenge with calculating this number is knowing that there is no measurements to judge or base anything off of. Most of these calculations...

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Categories: Strategies

Project selection and Tracking

Monday, January 02, 2012
Objectives and goals are important to the survival of any business. If, for any reason, the business is not meeting its objectives and goals, there is a crack somewhere in the business's structure. It is now the business's responsibility to find and fix all hindering problems. Once the projects are ready to begin, prioritize the projects. The project that improves a...

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Categories: Six Sigma

VOC/Customer Focus

Monday, January 02, 2012
Ever since Motorola Oil developed its "six sigma" program in 1986, businesses from all different areas, including General Electric and Honeywell, have been applying it. Its two objectives are (1) to pinpoint the causes of errors, and (2) to maximize consistency in business and manufacturing procedures. The six sigma methodology is abbreviated as DMAIC, which stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve,...

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Categories: Processes and Methodologies

Remembering Bill Smith, Father of Six Sigma

Thursday, December 29, 2011
Six Sigma was a revolutionary business tool, developed in the 1980's. The process tries to unify manufacturing standards so pieces are built the same way and there are fewer errors. Reducing errors helps improve the overall quality. This process was first helmed by Motorola, garnering them success and awards. Now, it is a practice used in many different industries. The ingenuity...

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Categories: Six Sigma

SIPOC

Thursday, December 29, 2011
SIPOC is an acronym, a six-sigma tool that stands for suppliers, inputs, process, outputs and customers. Six-sigma a business management strategy was developed by Motorola in 1986 to improve production and minimize mistakes. The basic idea was to create a format for the improvement of quality process, by creating an infrastructure for companies to follow. Six-sigma projects follow a specific series...

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Categories: Six Sigma Success Stories

Getting Your Employees On Board With Six Sigma

Monday, December 26, 2011
There are so many different management techniques and philosophies available globally. Some have been around for a long time and some are just making their way onto the scene. When it comes to selecting the right one for your business, where should you turn? Who can you really trust? Well, before stepping in any such direction it is a good idea...

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Categories: Strategies

Effective Lean and Six Sigma implementation is about behaviour as much as the tools

Sunday, December 18, 2011
When Six Sigma first came on the business analysis scene it seemed like a new era in environmental assessment of organizational performance. We were all seeking lean and agile solutions to the rapidly expanding global business picture. The advent of multinational enterprises in the 1980s accelerated the need for efficient and effective models of analytical instrumentation. Feasibility studies to strategic forecasting...

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Categories: Six Sigma Certification

The Most Important Ways To Build Up A Business

Thursday, December 15, 2011
So many individuals are confused about what to do with their business. In the current economy it can be difficult if not darn near impossible to keep a business not only afloat but moving forward. When it comes to running a business when the numbers are going down most people start to panic but it is important that no matter how...

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Categories: Case Studies