• Get a Tax Break for Your Professional Development Training

    The Lifetime Learning credit may be available on your tax return during the year in which you purchase and complete a professional development course. The credit is available for courses which qualify for job improvement skills, up to $2,000 (20% of the first $10,000 in tuition fees) per year. While I’m not an accountant I…

  • Lean Six Sigma Could Up Pharmaceutical Industry’s Process Improvements

    According to a recent report from CPhI — a group devoted to supporting growth and innovation in the pharmaceutical supply chain — the pharmaceutical industry must do more to initiate improvements to its manufacturing processes and create efficiencies in order to drive down costs while improving profits and drug quality. These improvements, which include implementing…

  • Some of the Most Successful People in Business Have Six Sigma Training

    Atlas Research has a new senior vice president by the name of Keith Phillips. The company — which is an integrated health solutions and research firm — also named Phillips a subject matter expert for enterprise and business unit level organizational transformation and operational improvement. Included in Phillips’ lengthy resume? Lean Six Sigma training, of…

  • Political Candidate Believes Lean Six Sigma Can Help California

    According to a recent article in the Hi-Desert Star, if Chad Mayes gets elected to the 42 District seat of the California State Assembly, one of the things he plans to do is implement a Lean Six Sigma approach to how the state does business. Mayes, of Yucca Valley, stated in the article that he is…

  • AHP Spreadsheet

    When working on a Six Sigma project, once you’ve obtained the voice of the customer, or other stakeholder, you’ll have a list of items that they say are important to them. But how important are they compared to one another? This question must be answered because you’ll want to devote more resources to the more…

  • How Lean Six Sigma Benefits Society and Your Company

    In a recent post to the ReliablePlant blog the ability of Lean Six Sigma to achieve dramatic improvements in quality and sustainability were discussed. The article made recommendations for how plants can reap substantial rewards from a Lean Six Sigma program. The article points out that Lean by itself encourages a sustainable, cost-effective outcome, but that…

  • How to Create, Understand and Use Individuals and Moving Range Charts

    The Individuals and Moving Range chart (IMR chart) is the workhorse of statistical process control (SPC). These charts, sometimes called process behavior charts, can be constructed quickly. People who are new to SPC can be brought up to speed on IMR charts in just a few minutes and they can be taught to plot new…

  • Another Example of How Six Sigma Training Guides a Career

    A recent press release shows yet another example of how Six Sigma training training can guide, define, and improve a career. Susan Whitehurst, the article explained, recently joined TeleTracking Technologies as the Managing Director of Consulting Services. The company stated in its release that Whitehurst’s Lean Six Sigma experience “ideally complements” its mission to support…

  • Lean Six Sigma Saves Texas City More Than $5 Million

    The city of Tyler, Texas, recently celebrated more than $5 million in savings from their Lean Six Sigma program, according to an article in the Tyler Morning Telegraph. The program launched in 2009, with a goal of making Tyler’s city services more efficient and providing better customer service. An earlier editorial piece from the city…

  • Lean Strategies Save a New Hampshire Hospital from Financial Ruin

    According to an article on the blog FierceHealthcare, the 2009 ice storm that hit the state of New Hampshire created a crisis for the Monadnock Community Hospital. As a result the 25-bed critical access hospital faced a huge deficit. “I had to pull a rabbit out of a hat,” recalled hospital President and CEO Peter…

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