Category: Lean Six Sigma Topics
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Goal-setting Frameworks: a comparison between Hoshin Kanri and OKR
Ever participated in a Lean Six Sigma project or worked alongside of Continuous Improvement professionals? Then you will probably have heard it mentioned how big of a role organizational culture…
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The Basics of Poka Yoke
The Lean Six Sigma methodology offers many tools to improve your processes with. To help you get started with these tools, we thought it helpful to highlight the most useful…
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The basics of FMEA
A ‘failure mode and effects analysis’ (FMEA) is a systematic, and most importantly, pro–active method for evaluating a process or product to help you find out where, and how, it…
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How one trainer achieved a student project success rate of 78% and an ROI of 700%
After some two decades of training people in Lean Six Sigma, we have concluded that one issue hinders nearly everyone we train. Regardless of who is in front of the…
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The Epic of Lean Six Sigma Terminology
Is it Lean? Is it Six Sigma? Is it Kaizen, Genryou, or TQC? If the language of process improvement feels like a modern-day Tower of Babel, you’re not alone. Despite…
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Cutting profit, the Cost of Poor Quality
A senior leader once told me, “We don’t have a quality issue, our customers never receive defective products.” But here’s the question every Lean Six Sigma professional should ask in…
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No AI Success Without Lean Six Sigma 🚀
AI promises to transform operations, but only if your processes are already under control. Without clean, consistent data, AI becomes a high-tech amplifier of your existing inefficiencies. 📉 Before you…
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Simplifying Media Service Requests: A Lean Six Sigma Project in Education
At a major educational institution, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project transformed how photography and videography requests were handled. Faced with inconsistent communication channels and missing information in over…
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Streamlining HRM Processes at an educational institution
At an educational institution’s Service Center HRM, a six-month Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project tackled inefficiencies in processing employee data changes, known as HR mutations. Faced with frequent submission…
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Speeding Up Public Record Releases: A Lean Six Sigma Approach
In just five months, a public sector organization cut record request processing time from four hours to under one, a 75% improvement, while slashing operational costs by 50%. This Lean…
