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SSGB Study Guide: Introduction
This exclusive five-part series by Dean Christolear, one of Six Sigma Forum’s top contributors, uses a project-focused approach to teach you the tools and skills you need to be an effective Six Sigma Greenbelt...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2008-12
- Keywords:Six Sigma; Green Belt; Quality Tools; DMAIC
Metrics that Trigger Actionable Discussions: Prioritize Process Improvements Using Gauge R&R and SPC Capability
Integrating tools like FMEA, GR&R, and SPC provides a quality improvement framework for monitoring process health and prioritizing improvements. An eight-step model begins with documenting quality characteristics and leads to the creation of a "process he..
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2007-12
- Keywords:Master Black Belt, SPC, Metrics
Metrics that Trigger Actionable Discussions: Prioritize Process Improvements Using Gauge R&R and SPC Capability Presentation
Integrating tools like FMEA, GR&R, and SPC provides a quality improvement framework for monitoring process health and prioritizing improvements. An eight-step model begins with documenting quality characteristics and leads to the creation of a "process he..
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2007-12
- Keywords:Master Black Belt, SPC, Metrics
Help Desk Improves Service and Saves Money with Six Sigma
The help desk for a telecom company used Six Sigma to reduce the average solution time for customers from 9.75 hours to 1 hour and decrease operating costs...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2006-08
- Keywords:Case study; Black Belt; Six Sigma; Cycle time reduction; Cost reduction; Quality function deployment (QFD); Design of experiments (DOE); Fishbone diagram; Process improvement; Process capability; Business results
Is Your Company Culture Ready for Six Sigma?
What are the components of a Six Sigma culture of continuous improvement? What does it take to develop this culture?
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2004-07
- Keywords:Six Sigma, Organizational culture, Statistics, Defects, Teamwork, Customer focus
Thirteen Keys to a Successful Large Project
These thirteen tips emphasize the power of strategic thinking, a clear vision, and careful planning in making large projects seem small...
- Filetype: pdf
- Copyright: 2008
- Keywords:Black Belt, Six Sigma, Project planning, Project management
What's Wrong with Six Sigma? Part Three: Six Sigma Perfection Isn't Always Perfect
The final part of this series airs contradictory but parallel criticisms, one pronouncing that Six Sigma perfection does not go far enough, the other that it goes too far...
- Filetype: pdf
- Copyright: 2008
- Keywords:Master Black Belt
Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins
As a partner and senior consultant with Kepner-Tregoe, Inc., a management consulting firm that works with manufacturing and service organizations, James Zimmerman has seen too many Six Sigma implementations fall short of achieving their potential. He has identifie
- Filetype: pdf
- Copyright: 2008
- Keywords:Champion, Six Sigma, Program management, Organizational strategy
Proving Six Sigma for Healthcare
A Six Sigma instructor discusses project results and explains how Six Sigma can improve not only quality of care and patient satisfaction, but also staff satisfaction, productivity, and the bottom line...
- Filetype: pdf
- Copyright: 2008
- Keywords:Executive, Six Sigma, Business results, Healthcare
Lean-Six Sigma, Healthcare, and the Senior Leader's Nondelegable Role
Chip Caldwell, who specializes in strategic deployment of clinical and systems quality improvement and cost reduction initiatives in healthcare, explains how the keys to achieving Lean-Six Sigma healthcare results are systemic, organization-wide improveme..
- Filetype: pdf
- Copyright: 2008
- Keywords:Executive, Leadership, Six Sigma
