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• Finding the Green in Lean Six Sigma In traditional Lean thinking, what is waste? Running across the factory floor to get a tool? Yes. Waiting for someone down the line to finish up their part of the assembly? Definitely. Leaving the lights on in the warehouse? A definite yes! Environmental wastes—including wasted energy—can cost companies thousands of dollars a year. As fuel costs rise and awareness of climate change issue....Read more

  Contributor:  Chris Reed Tags: Lean | Lean Six Sigma | environmental wastes 12/15/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• Setting a Standard for Lean Six Sigma Belt Certification Does anyone else find it ironic that Lean Six Sigma—a successful methodology with a history of almost 25 years—still has no widely accepted independent standards to guide professional certification? In the Define phase, we teach the need to turn customer requirements into operational definitions so we can clearly understand, in objective and practical terms, how to meet customer requirem....Read more

  Contributor:  Bill Hathaway Tags: Six Sigma Belt certification | Lean Six Sigma Belt certification | Six Sigma Black Belt certification 03/02/2010  12:00:00 AM EST

• 	Deploying Lean/Six Sigma In Our Turbulent Economy
  Tags: performance measuement | balanced scorecard | cost reduction

• Lean Six Sigma Speeds Testing for Hospital Emergency Rooms More and more healthcare organizations are adopting Lean Six Sigma methodologies to help cut costs and improve patient services. No where is this more true than in hospital laboratories. HCA’s Integrated Regional Laboratories (IRL) manages the clinical laboratory operations of its East Florida Division hospitals and has been applying Lean Six Sigma to improve its operations for more than four years....Read more

  Contributor:  Fred Patton and Janice Pini Tags: Six Sigma hospital | Lean hospital | Fred Patton 07/15/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Process Excellence Essentials for Every Successful Continuous Improvement Culture How can you encourage employees to learn, embrace and use Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC or other process excellence tools for control and planning? Every company might take a slightly different approach, but some fundamentals are necessary for a process to gain momentum. Using Process Excellence Methodology for Continuous Improvement Engagement begins with a senior-level management commitment to the c....Read more

  Contributor:  Mark Fendley Tags: Kaizen | Lean Six Sigma DMAIC | DMAIC 11/24/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• Sustaining a Lean Six Sigma Training Program During an Economic Crisis: An Interview with Mark Fendley of BMW Manufacturing With the onset of the global recession, most companies have had no choice but to cut certain internal programs. Lean Six Sigma training is no exception. In this Six Sigma IQ interview Mark Fendley, Continuous Improvement Manager for BMW Manufacturing in South Carolina and an advisory board member for Six Sigma IQ, describes how the recessionary pressures have affected many companies’ Lean Six Sigma tr....Read more

  Contributor:  Mark Fendley Tags: Lean Six Sigma | Lean training | Process Excellence 08/10/2009  5:22:00 PM EDT

• Lean Six Sigma—Not Just for the Big Guys No, Lean Six Sigma is not the new diet you saw late last night on that TV infomercial, and DMAIC is not a type of vitamin. Lean Six Sigma has been working its way into organizations for over half a century; however these difficult economic times provide another opportunity to review this process management theory’s relevancy in today’s business world. A Brief History of the Origins of Si....Read more

  Contributor:  John Blowers Tags: process management theory | Toyota Production System | just-in-time 11/17/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• The Legend of Motorola: Embracing the Next Generation of Process Improvement In the 1980s, Motorola made waves in the business world with the development of its process improvement strategy Six Sigma. Today Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma are widely-upheld methodologies and tools used to reduce variation in a business process by using a statistical process control to measure variance and standard deviation. Tina Huesing, Director of Six Sigma at Motorola, speaks with the Process Exc....Read more

  Contributor:  Tina Huesing Tags: Six Sigma | Lean Six Sigma | Six Sigma Process Improvement 11/17/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• 	Six Sigma Belt Certification: What You Need to Consider Before Choosing a Training Program Thinking about becoming a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt? Have you done the research on certification training programs, but don’t know how to narrow down your options? Then this Profit through Process podcast may help. Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Jim Wasiloff,
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Six Sigma | Six Sigma training | Lean Six Sigma 01/12/2010  11:04:00 AM EST

• 	Lean Six Sigma: The Next Generation Simplify your continuous improvement efforts with Lean Six Sigma! In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with John Blowers, a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and the Senior Manager, HR Services and Solutions for GLOBALFOUNDRIES, who introduces how Lean Six Sigma can cut
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Six Sigma | Lean Six Sigma deployment | DMAIC 03/11/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Can Lean Six Sigma Training Be Done Online?   Online Lean Six Sigma Training I was recently awarded my Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from an online Lean training program. The Lean Six Sigma training addressed understanding the physics of flow, waste components, statistical process control, Theory of Constraints and the principles of both Lean and Six Sigma DMAIC. The use of statistical software, Minitab and Sigma XL, were covered in the c....Read more

  Contributor:  Joseph T. Dager Tags: Joseph T. Dager | lean six sigma training | lean training 08/17/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Lean Six Sigma Logistics: Strategic Development to Operational Success
  

  By Thomas Goldsby and Robert Martichenko Published August 2005 by J. Ross Publishing Speed to market, reducing costs, and accelerating lead times are vital for survival in today’s competitive environment. This “how to” book illustrates how to integrate Lean, Six Sigma and Logistics into a cohesive process that will help you eliminate unnecessary inventories through disciplined....Read more
  

  
  Contributor:  Book Review
  Tags: Lean | logistics | Lean Six Sigma
  05/13/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Bringing Back the Romance for Lean Six Sigma I am a CNBC fanatic. I started watching it religiously when I exited the executive ranks of the corporate world and launched my own business from home. My primary motivation for increasing their ratings was to learn more about how and why I had lost so much money in the latest drama of the world financial markets. I found it ironic that I have spent a career saving companies millions of dollars by deploying....Read more

  Contributor:  Julie Brignac Tags: Lean Six Sigma | Lean | change management 05/18/2009  5:56:00 PM EDT

• Leveraging Front-Line Employees for More Effective Continuous Improvement: Words of Insight from the Lean Six Sigma Trenches As an attendant at the IQPC Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Summit 2009, I was able to see first hand how continuous improvement is being used and integrated into companies around the world. Speakers representing global giants such as Toyota, Walmart and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation discussed how forging Lean Six Sigma into an organization is essential to build and maintain a compet....Read more

  Contributor:  Melanie Schallow Tags: front-line employees | continuous improvement | Six Sigma 06/22/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• 	Best Practices in Financial Validation of Lean Six Sigma Projects
  Tags: process improvement | Six Sigma | Genna Weiss

• Lean Services: Asia's Preeminent Deployment Leader Gives Global Insights on Lean Six Sigma for Services While Lean has been an effective process improvement method for the manufacturing industry, some service companies have only begun the journey of implementing this methodology to assist with achieving operational excellence. Debashis Sarkar, who currently leads the Organizational Excellence Group at ICICI Bank from its headquarters in Mumbai, India, knows firsthand the trials and tribulations of this proces....Read more

  Contributor:  Debashis Sarkar Tags: eight wastes | Debashis Sarkar | Lean for Service Organizations and Offices: A Holistic Approach for Achieving Operational Excellence 01/12/2009  5:25:00 PM EST

• 	Leaning the Defense Energy Support Center's Culture to Increase Warfighter Readiness
  Tags: vsm | new performance assessment systems | lean six sigma

• 	Beginning Your Lean Six Sigma Journey: How to Engage Your CFO Are you looking to learn how to more effectively convey the financial benefits of your Lean Six Sigma program to your CFO so that you get his or her full support for your initiatives? If so, this Profit through Process podcast will show you how you can accomplish this task. Tapping into the mind of a
  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Lean | executive buy-in | Lean Six Sigma program 06/08/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Value-Driven Six Sigma Requires New Tools and Views Welcome to the Delivering Customer Value through Six Sigma column, where we will be discussing the third generation of Six Sigma, what it means to the evolution of both Lean and Six Sigma in your organization and the tools you will need to leverage Six Sigma into value-enhancing initiatives for superior business performance. We’ll be talking about the importance of a market focus for your initiatives,....Read more

  Contributor:  Reg Goeke and Eric Reidenbach Tags: Six Sigma | Six Sigma practitioners | critical-to-quality factors 01/21/2009  5:54:00 PM EST

• 	Betfair's Accelerated Project Delivery Framework & Applying Lean Six Sigma to Customer Promotions
  Tags: Kanban | Marcus Ruff | Process Improvement

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