As we have previously covered on this blog, the primary purpose of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology is to eliminate waste and reduce variation in manufacturing, service and design processes, thus ...

Anyone who has deployed Six Sigma or has thought about deploying Six Sigma ... The answer is found in the quality of the deployment planning process. To address these common issues in advance ...

Six Sigma is no exception ... an excellent road map for identifying and solving the problems they face. This synergy between methodologies functions primarily to help eliminate the 8 kinds of waste, ...

Six Sigma provides a framework for measuring ... phase is to get a full understanding of how the process is currently performed. Use a process map to visually depict the steps that actually ...

Process mapping is one of the basic quality or process improvement tools used in Lean Six Sigma. It has acquired ... Since the aim here is how to make a process map look better (not how to create ...

While Six Sigma was originally developed to find process variations, or inconsistencies, such as wear and tear on a machine that affects product quality, Six Sigma users learned that the ...

Mike Byrne, ICF wrote the article about applying the Six Sigma and Lean Process Reviews to the disaster response process we have here in the United States. In part he writes, "Good businesses in ...

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement “religions”: Lean, Six Sigma, Business ...