Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma is an organizational process improvement methodology. Motorola initiated Six Sigma in the 1980s to address company quality issues.

GE under Jack Welch popularized Six Sigma deployments in the mid-1990s. Many companies have followed the GE Six Sigma model. The GE model for Six Sigma incorporated process improvement practitioners called black belts and green belts to facility improvement efforts. Champions are to be executives that support the completion of the process improvement efforts, which are to have significant financial benefit.

Lean was added to Six Sigma around the beginning of the 21st century.

Six Sigma is traditional considered a methodology for reducing defects. Lean efforts focus on reducing organization waste. The seven types of lean waste are overproduction, waiting, transportation, inventory, over-processing, motion, and defects.

The metrics often associated with Six Sigma are striving to achieve a process output response of Six Sigma or 3.4 parts per million non-conformance rate. This rate of issue occurrence could be expressed as defects per million opportunities. Other metrics associated with Six Sigma are process capability indices such as Cp and Cpk.

Both Six Sigma and lean deployments have issues relative to metric reporting and silo implementations. These issues are overcome with the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system.

Lean Six Sigma Deployment Strategy

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  Structured steps for a Lean Six Sigma deployment strategy are provided in the below “Steps for Lean Six Sigma Success” PDF written by Forrest Breyfogle. With the described deployment strategy, focus is given to the avoidance of silo projects that may initially look good but do not provide much (if any) organization-as-a-whole benefit.  The described […]

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Lean Six Sigma Certification Requirements

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Have Lean Six Sigma certification requirements changed over the years?  I believe the answer is yes! I was reading LinkedIn this week and saw a posting by an “Universal Lean Six Sigma Certification” organization (http://www.sixsigmacouncil.org) that certifies providers as meeting their rigorous standards.  The post was about “see our list of top lean six sigma

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Benefiting from Lean Six Sigma and Business Process Management (BPM) Together

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Many organizations have deployed both business process management(BPM) and lean six sigma. There is some natural overlap, as well as some fundamental differences between the two, but organizations can benefit from a structured integration of these two techniques in their business…Take a look at this 3 page magazine article to understand the purpose of each system and see an orchestrated method to integrate the two.

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Webinar: Lean Six Sigma Training Providers Selection, the Most Important Factors

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This one hour webinar gives tips on what to research when looking for a quality Lean Six Sigma training course. Considering a Black Belt course or a Green Belt course? Not all classes are created equally. Rick shares the most important factors and recommendations to research in order to achieve the goal you ultimately desire.

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