Financial benefit of Lean Six Sigma calculations can be deceiving – an alternative Deployment Solution

Statement: Our Lean Six Sigma project benefits are measured in hard savings, and we’re having a difficult time determining the cost benefits for DFSS (design for Six Sigma) projects and those that address voice of the customer needs.

Response: With Lean Six Sigma we want improvement efforts to financials. However, Lean Six Sigma deployments that focus only on hard savings can lead to the wrong activities, also claims can be such as we saved $125 million dollars – but nobody can find the money. The organization needs metrics and a deployment system that pulls for the creation of the right activity at the right time. This is accomplished through an IEE system, as described in “C-Suite: The Need to Re-think our Business System’s Strategic Planning, Scorecard Creation, and Process Improvement Efforts”

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