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Getting Your First Six Sigma Gig
Since I started teaching students online a year ago I’ve encountered something new: students trying to get into Six Sigma for the first time. This obviously wasn’t a problem when I was training clients whose employers were getting them trained specifically to use the approach in their organizations. I write this for those of you […]
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Jumping to Statistical Conclusions
Have you attributed your results to the right base data? It may come as a surprise that the biggest challenge facing black belts and master black belts is usually not in selecting the best statistical technique for analyzing a particular data set. Most statistical techniques work fairly well even if the underlying assumptions are not […]
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Project Selection – Getting a good one!
Project selection is critical to project success. To insure you have the right project let me give you nine areas that you should think about and if any you do not have then I’d find another that has all nine as they ALL are important. Well I hope that is help. Good luck! Let us […]
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Design of Experiments and Baseball
A Black Belt steps up to the plate with Six Sigma confidence. Bill had a problem. His company’s baseball team wasn’t doing that well, and he was part of the reason. Bill was in a long slump. Frankly, he stunk at the plate. But Bill is a Six Sigma Black Belt. He decided to approach […]
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Six Sigma, Lean, and Lean Six Sigma
Which process improvement approach is right for you and your needs? People sometimes ask me to explain the difference between lean production and six sigma. The question is usually phrased something like, “Should I use six sigma or lean production methods to improve my operations?” Before I tell you my answer, let me provide a […]
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What is a Six Sigma Black Belt?
Who are they and what do they do? I’m often asked about the term “Black Belt” as it relates to Six Sigma. What, precisely, is a Black Belt? Where did the term originate? For that matter, where did the term “Six Sigma” originate? And, while we’re on the subject, what’s a Green Belt or Master […]
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How Six Sigma Can Help With Marketing
Marketing is a process. Six Sigma is an approach for achieving process excellence. It will help you improve the marketing process by providing tools & techniques for identifying what the marketing process is, including suppliers, inputs, process steps, outputs, and customers. Six Sigma helps you understand the need to determine who owns the process and […]
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Evil Process-FDA’s Broken Approval Process
Last night I watched a great movie, Living Proof, which documented a true story about a doctor struggling to get a promising breast cancer treatment drug approved. In one of the scenes the doctor has just completed a Phase I clinical trial and has to explain to one of the patients why she won’t be […]
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Quality, Costs, and Six Sigma
Six sigma isn’t just about quality for quality’s sake. Your employer, Peerless Systems, acquired Acme International for its technology. But your leaders want more than just Acme’s technology; they also want Acme to be successful in its own right. But Acme has problems. Acme, it seems, is still operated as a traditional three-sigma company. Peerless […]
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Selecting Six Sigma Projects
Sometimes just determining which projects to undertake isn’t enough. Six Sigma is project-intensive. Large firms, such as General Electric, report completing as many as 7,000 Six Sigma projects in a single year. Even much smaller companies can complete several hundred projects per year. But this should come as no surprise, as projects are the means […]