• Lean Six Sigma: Improving Health Care in Developing Countries

    Medical XPress recently reported that researchers believe the application of Lean Six Sigma principles in rural hospitals in India will shorten patient queues by 91 percent and reduce consultation time by a third. Given the limited resources of hospitals in the country and the numbers of people who enter them, Lean Six Sigma has the…

  • Fort Benning Department Looks to Lean Six Sigma for Efficiency

    Another Army department is turning to Lean Six Sigma to improve efficiency. The Bayonet & Saber, the publication at Fort Benning, Georgia, announced recently that twelve employees from the Directorate of Training and Doctrine (DOTD) were undergoing training to earn their Lean Six Sigma green belts. According to the DOTD deputy director at the post’s…

  • Management Team of Georgia Medical Center Receive Six Sigma Training

    Four members of the management team at Habersham Medical Center, in Demorest, GA, recently received Six Sigma Training and earned their Green Belt certifications, the center reported. The staff receiving the training included the chief clinical officer; the director of quality; director of the emergency department, respiratory, and prime care; and the director of obstetrics.…

  • Lean Six Sigma Project Leads Texas City to Opt for In-House Paratransit

    A Lean Six Sigma project in Tyler, Texas, has lead the city to opt for providing in-house paratransit services rather than contracting that service out to a private company. According to an article in the Tyler Morning Telegraph, the city began its analysis in January and included a customer survey about the city’s paratransit services…

  • Six Sigma Project Turkeys

    I’ve looked at thousands of projects in the 20 plus years that I’ve been reviewing projects for Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification. I personally review all certification projects for Pyzdek Institute Certification Candidates. I’ve seen fantastic projects which have saved millions of dollars, launched exciting new products and services, delighted formerly dissatisfied…

  • 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…

  • City Official Encourages Small Businesses to Implement Lean Six Sigma Initiatives

    Recently, the director of the Milwaukee Department of Administration called upon small businesses to implement Lean Six Sigma to achieve cost savings and increase efficiency. In an op-ed published by the BizTimes, director Sharon Robinson stated that the city, itself, is in the process of implementing Lean Six Sigma initiatives so that, like other companies,…

  • New City Manager Considers Six Sigma Training a Must-Have

    There’s a lot of work to be done regarding the state of finances in the city of El Paso. According to a recent report from the El Paso Times, new city manager Tommy Gonzalez has proposed a $826 million budget that includes a tax increase of about $34 a year on the average valued home.…

  • Healthcare Consultant Says Lean Six Sigma is Crucial to Delivery System

    The purpose behind healthcare delivery, according to healthcare business consultant Austin Kirkland, is to eliminate under-performers for the good of value-based medicine. And the way to prevent your practice from being one of the under-performers? Lean Six Sigma. Lean Six Sigma, when applied to the healthcare revenue cycle, Kirkland wrote in a recent article for…

  • Six Sigma Training: Bringing Quality to a Digital World

    Have you ever tried to shop online, only to find that the website wasn’t working efficiently, or clicked on a page only to find the link broken? Have you suffered through slow internet, applications that crash, email programs that do unexpected things? Of course you have. We all have. According to a recent article from…

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