Are you contemplating a Lean Six Sigma deployment in your organization to drive operational excellence? Remember the principles. Have you already introduced a Lean Six Sigma effort, but it is ...

Quality assurance methods address quality issues in the output of businesses. Lean and six sigma principles apply approaches and metrics to a process to promote efficiency with a minimum number of ...

The Six Sigma approach to manufacturing is a set of techniques and tools developed by electronics company Motorola in 1986 to improve its development and manufacturing processes. It improves quality ...

While the full impact of healthcare reform is still unknown, hospitals will be under tremendous reimbursement pressure from insurers and the government. Hospitals will need to improve their ...

Lean Six Sigma is the fusion of two popular business principles -- lean and Six Sigma-- into one methodology, to improve organizational performance and eliminate waste processes. It combines Toyota's ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Lean Six Sigma, a certification program that combines the ...

While cutting red tape or reducing hassles for employees can sound unrelated to saving money, a training program in Lean Six Sigma principles has been teaching UC Davis employees how to streamline ...

Many business owners may have heard of and implemented lean production principles - a method for eliminating waste - or Six Sigma, a data-driven approach to eliminating defects, but practitioners ...

I’ve always been keen on lean — the productivity methodology that minimizes inefficiency and emphasizes continuous improvement. I was first introduced to lean manufacturing in 1997 when I was hired by ...

Ries is, at first glance, very different from the quality gurus who presided–either physically or in spirit–over GE in the last century. In the 1950s William Edwards Deming taught the Japanese to ...

The Department of Defense, thousands of private sector companies and even the state government of Iowa uses it, so why are Congress and the president silent on it? Six Sigma, and more specifically ...