Archive for July, 2009
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009I believe that Lean Six Sigma Consulting has the greatest opportunity ever and in my terms, opportunity = NEED. What we need is the greatest transformation of efficiencies from know-how to implementation, and I think Lean Six Sigma is ideally suited to fulfill that need. The Duct Tape Marketing principles state that marketing is defined [...]
What to do with the Root Cause?
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009We have found the root cause but how do we correct it? The correction may seem easy at this point but how do we know it is just not a band-aid. My preference is to go back to the Fishbone diagram and use the same method we use in discovering the root cause to discover [...]
Operational Excellence, It’s about the People not the Tools
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009I had Robert Stapp of OP•EX Direct Results Inc. on the Business901 podcast and in part 2 of this podcast, we had a discussion on operational excellence. He discussed several ways to leverage Lean and Six Sigma in achieving excellence.
The lesson I learned from the podcast was that these were not the only tools he [...]