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Lean Six Sigma Tool 5S is Perfect for Spring Cleaning

Let’s face it — every home is notorious for waste. We seem to work twice as hard at keeping things we don’t need. We buy twice as much, because we can’t see what we already have, and we keep doing it over and over, even though we know what is causing the waste. Why don’t […]

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What Employers Can Expect from Green Belt Training

The foundation of Six Sigma team work, Green Belts are, in many ways, the core of your project team. As such, they are essential to the smooth-running of projects and completion of process improvement objectives. Six Sigma Green Belts all share a range of key qualities that make them stand out from the rest. These […]

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Avoid Decision Delays with Six Sigma

Six Sigma Project Success: How to Deal with Decision Delays

Decision delays are the bane of a well-run Six Sigma project. Your time is valuable and we understand how frustrating it can become. Delay is also a problem in production, executive, and administrative processes all over the world, but it can be overcome. Not only is delay detrimental to Kaizen but it also violates Lean […]

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Basics Explained: Lean Six Sigma

What is Lean Six Sigma? Six Sigma aims to increase the profits of the company or organization to increase the profits by getting rid of the variability, defects and the waste which will weaken customer loyalty. There are three levels to learn Six Sigma and they are metric, methodology and philosophy. To a person who […]

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Lean Six Sigma Service: Best For Maintenance Services

Lean Six Sigma Service: Best For Maintenance Services

It is not easy to implement the Lean Six Sigma service in several companies. The main reason behind this fact is that in many companies the maintenance activities are conducted by comparatively less-skilled professionals who do may not have the capability to recognize the complexities of lean methodologies and concepts. Another reason why these professionally […]

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Six Sigma Combats Organizational Problems and Criticisms Too

Six Sigma is the hottest selling cake in the world of business around the globe now-a-days. Six Sigma is a compilation of strategies and tools that manages business organization and tries to bring about changes that not only eliminates the negative elements but also enhances the turn over percentage of the business venture. It ensures […]

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Lean Six Sigma Methodologies

Background The basis of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies was laid long back when the manufacturing sector started getting pressurized for Process, Quality, effectiveness and timeliness. Both Lean and Six Sigma methodologies aim at improving the process in one or the other way. How do both of them differ then? This is a question asked […]

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Lean Six Sigma essentials For Effective Sales Operations

There are many businesses that are successfully using the Lean Six Sigma services in their sales operations and getting benefits. Basically, Lean Six Sigma is an pioneering tactic to achieve the high performance by integrating the production efficiencies of Lean manufacturing with some effective tools of Six Sigma like cutting cost and high quality out […]

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Everything About Six Sigma

Everything You Wanted to Know About Six Sigma

Two questions first. 1. Have you recently come across the news of some company drastically improve their performance levels or another claiming to triple their annual turnover, or even have better employee harmony? Wondered how? 2. Are you one of the many hapless business people wishing for a spray of pixie dust to miraculously save […]

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Difference between: Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma vs Six Sigma Lean and the Six Sigma business strategies have proven in the past two decades that it is possible to achieve significant improvements in terms quality, cost efficiency and time by focusing and upgrading performance of various in-house processes. Whereas Six Sigma is focused on reducing process fluctuations and improving […]

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Lean Six Sigma in the US Air Force – Towards a Lean Mean Air Force

Lean Six Sigma is a concept that is used to improve business processes by combining elements of Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing. The former focuses on speed while the latter emphasizes quality. When both are combined they produce quality at great speeds. As a business management tool, Six Sigma focuses on trying to identify mistakes […]

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Lean Six Sigma in the US Army – Toward Efficiency

Lean manufacturing combined with Six Sigma have been combined to form Lean Six Sigma. Both are basically techniques to improve business. The concept of Lean manufacturing comes from Toyota Production System while Six Sigma owes its origins to Motorola. Both concepts when combined, can transform organizations. Elimination of waste and reduction in the time cycles […]

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Vital Role of Lean Six Sigma In The US Navy

Vital Role of Lean Six Sigma In The US Navy

The definition of Lean Six Sigma changes according to the type of industry. In a business world, Lean refers to the procedures and changing practices to bring about effectiveness, whereas the word Sigma describes variability. The name Six Sigma comes from number of standard deviations, which statisticians use for describing amount of variance for hundred […]

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Importance of LSS in US Air Force

Importance of Lean Six Sigma In The US Air Force

The US Air Force considers Lean and Six Sigma as a self-motivated, interactive force rather than what people normally perceive as two opposing initiatives. Lean and Six Sigma, which are two primary business process and development strategies, serve as beneficial tools to any place of work, if used accurately with leadership support and dedication. These […]

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Change Management Strategy – Ensuring that Lean Six Sigma Works

Change Management Strategy – Ensuring that Lean Six Sigma Works

Reports of impressive resource savings and improved quality output achieved by organisations employing Lean Six Sigma change methodology have been nothing short of breath taking. However, not all Lean Six Sigma initiatives have resulted in such pronounced gains. So what are the differences between star performers and organizations that yield less than spectacular results when […]

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VSA - A first step in Change Management by Lean Transformation

Value Stream Analysis (VSA) – A first step in Change Management by Lean Transformation

Lean Transformation, otherwise known as Lean Six Sigma, seeks to streamline and add customer value to the manufacturing process by: i. Eliminating resource wastage ii. Developing a system that generates a consistently near perfect final product iii. Optimization of the system for continuous flow and removal of non-essential links Lean Transformation makes use of a […]

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Big Role for Lean Six Sigma in the Army

Big Role for Lean Six Sigma in the Army

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a performance enhancing methodology synthesized from the marriage of two related approaches, Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing, which were both developed by the hugely successful Toyota Corporation during the half century following the second world war. Developed specifically for use in a manufacturing environment, both methods sought to cut costs, […]

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Lean Six Sigma – The Volcano beneath the US Air Force

The low steady rumble, of a volcano about to erupt, is audible below the vast territory spanned by the US Air Force. A process improvement tool known as Lean Six Sigma has already exploded across the military and naval landscape and is about to render the US Air Force it’s next Pompeii. Developed from improvement […]

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Failure: Why do Great Six Sigma Project Teams Still Fail?

Six Sigma is defined by teamwork, which, in turn, influences the success of Six Sigma projects. However, even the most foolproof projects can collapse under their own weight if you aren’t careful. And what factor, more than any other, causes these project failures? The answer: Six Sigma project teams. If your team isn’t up to […]

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Six Sigma Calling: 9 Ways to Improve Call Center Quality

You might not associate Six Sigma and call centers right away, and we wouldn’t blame you! However, they rely on efficient processes, and high quality control, to maintain optimal results. This makes it the perfect environment to use Six Sigma, maximizing results and upholding quality. Read on and learn how Six Sigma principles can be used to increase call center quality. […]

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