Posts Tagged ‘Lean Six Sigma’

Per our discussion, my five book series description on the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE), which goes below Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard, is described in the following links. I am confident that your organization could benefit a lot from the IEE business management system. Put link to all books and five book series [...]

QUESTION: What is the difference between conventional quality, total quality, process quality, process performance and process excellence?  Does ISO, Lean Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM),  Deming prize,  European Quality Award (EQA), and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) have target quality or performance? If quality is the answer, which quality; i.e., total or process [...]

I have found the AGI-Goldratt institute’s book Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance – A Business Novel to be very good. I highly suggest reading the book.  The penny exercise described in the book will open many people’s eyes.  However, Velocity alone has some shortcomings.

When organizations undertake a Lean Six Sigma deployment, management often lists improvement projects that they would like to have someone complete within their training.  Management will then send people to Green Belt or Black Belt training, where each person is assigned a project.  Often the expectation is that this effort will lead to a successful [...]

Some application examples of Lean Six Sigma projects for the supply chain that have been completed are: A specialty package and shipper worked on creating orders; e.g., a sample product was attached to a product that they purchased A company used the techniques to reduce their inventory needs in Mexico, resulting in several warehouse closings A school district improved [...]