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Senior Partner Talks of Learning How To ‘Slow Down, To Speed Up’ With Lean Six Sigma
These days, when Ellen Burts-Cooper, PhD, goes to work, she uses her Lean Six Sigma toolkit. However, it wasn’t always that way. In a recent op-ed in Cleveland Jewish News, Burts-Cooper — an adjunct professor and a senior managing partner with Improve Consulting and Training Group — discussed learning how to ‘slow down, to speed…
Six Sigma Training: Does the Investment in It Ever End?
Perhaps you’ve heard of the examples. The corporations who turned to Lean Six Sigma years ago in order to gain efficiencies in their processes which result in cost savings, better service, and better products. For those corporations — or any company turning to the methodology for strong results — does the investment of Six Sigma…
Waste Prevention a Primary Focus of Lean Innovation at Amazon
Customers won’t pay for waste. That’s why, according to a recent post from Innovation Excellence, waste prevention has been a primary focus of lean innovation at Amazon. Thanks to the understanding of this from the CEO and Amazon creator, Jeff Bezos, the company implements lean principles from the way it ships to how it handles…
Why Would a Company Provide Six Sigma Training to Hundreds of Employees?
Why would a company invest in providing six sigma training to hundreds of its employees? For Irish Life, the largest life and pensions group and fund manager in Ireland, it’s all about innovation. According to a report from Business and Leadership, about 40 of the 300 people involved in the company’s corporate division are focused…
All of IT Consulting Firm’s Employees Now Lean Six Sigma Certified
T2 Technology Group, a Redondo Beach, CA-based company that offers IT consulting services, recently announced that all of its employees are now Lean Six Sigma certified. The employees are already starting projects that will put their training to use. The company is integrating Lean Six Sigma methodology into its project management and internal processes, the…
3M Looks to Continue to Bolster Manufacturing with Lean Six Sigma
According to 3M’s CEO Inge Thulin, in comments made recently on an electrical products group conference call, the company — which has been using Lean Six Sigma for years now — is looking to focus even more on how Lean Six Sigma can help their manufacturing department. They will be looking at how to use…
Lean Six Sigma Expert Named to Top 100 List
The Vice President of 3M’s Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Acquisition Integration and Quality for 3M, Jerome D. Hamilton, was named to Savoy Magazine’s 2014 Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America. The list is a compilation of African American individuals who are facilitating global change through their leadership. Hamilton, known as a LEAN expert,…
3 Examples of Sustainable Lean Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma is one of the best tools in the business to improve the overall proficiency and quality. It has been proven for many years. One of the main obstacles with this tool is to make sure that it stays sustainable and doesn’t run out. If the project is only has the support of management…
Six Sigma And The SME Environment
Motorola, General Electric and Samsung are just three examples of major companies who have used Six Sigma methodology to improve their business. There are many other global businesses which have used Six Sigma to make their operations run more efficiently and therefore more cost-effectively. While this is a tribute to Six Sigma’s effectiveness it is, perhaps, somewhat unfortunate that it fails to…
Lean Six Sigma Supply Management: Have We Forgotten What Customers Want
Customer service is the key buzzword for corporations, and deservedly so. Customer demand drives what we produce and when we produce it, and it therefore drives profits. It also drives value. During the late 1980s, when IBM introduced Total Quality Management — which includes the six sigma quality process improvement approach — they defined customer…