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Accountability: Ensure You Tidy Up ‘You’ First
Setting a Bad Example We have all seen it many times before. That meeting organizer that comes into a meeting 25 minutes late. Everyone in the room respectfully held off starting the meeting and...
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Minitab: Developing Your Statistical Skills
Reasoning and Justification What is the importance of Minitab training to a Six Sigma professional? The practice of Six Sigma requires us to rely on statistics and hard data. This allows the...
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Lean Six Sigma Tools: What’s in Your Toolkit?
Using a Wrench to Drive a Nail When you think about all of the Lean Six Sigma tools that are at your disposal, the question comes to mind …what’s in your toolkit? Getting a job done, whether simple or...
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Lean Six Sigma Teams: Finding the Right Size
One Size Fits All? Sometimes there is a misconception with Lean Six Sigma Teams that the more ‘brains’ involved, the better the results. This can especially become a trend when the problems are more...
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Celebrating the Fourth of July
A History of the Celebration The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They’d been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was...
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Embracing Lean Six Sigma: Sometimes Easier Said Than Done
Embracing Lean Six Sigma Embracing Lean Six Sigma methodology is, for some, an impossible task. At first glance, that just doesn’t make sense. There are volumes of case studies that prove the value of...
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Voice of The Customer: What They Really Think of You!
Living the Fantasy Voice of the Customer programs are crucial to the success of your business. The problem is so many think they know exactly what their customers think and feel. You have been in...
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Veterans: Lean Six Sigma Skills Are In Demand
Ready to Transition? Veterans, are you ready to transition? That one single question strikes fear in the heart of more veterans than any other. Once the decision to transition from military service...
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Organizing For Success: Design Does Matter
Breaking Old Habits Organizing for success with Lean is a interesting proposition. The fact is, most organizational designs are poorly thought out and disappointedly implemented. Lean practices and...
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FMEA Tool: Predicting the Possibilities
Can You Predict the Possibilities? Understanding the power and potential of the FMEA tool is crucial. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to predict the future? If you follow a path, under a given set of...
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Quality Awards Recognize Medical Center
Healthcare is an ever-evolving industry that is achieving significant results with quality initiatives. Leaders are learning from other industries the value of Lean Six Sigma programs in their...
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Brainstorming: A Powerful Six Sigma Tool
Brainstorming combines a relaxed, informal approach to problem solving with lateral thinking. It encourages people to come up with thoughts and ideas that can, at first, seem a bit crazy. Some of...
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Online Certifications: Trends Move Away From The Traditional
Online certifications are making new inroads. For decades, it has been an accepted principle that if you want a solid professional career, you must obtain a four year degree. This has been a minimum...
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Lean Standard Work: Importance of Calendar White Space
Lean Standard Work has become a major component of most Lean systems. This is fundamentally a lean-principled way for managers at all levels to execute their work. There is a natural push back from...
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Executive Leadership: What Is Your Role?
In today’s environment, executive leadership is in the middle of an identity crisis. Studies tell us that 80% of new CEOs lose their position within 18 months of taking the reigns. That fact alone,...
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Food Service: Serving Up Six Sigma Quality Daily
The food service industry is tough. The challenges of the industry range from food costs and quality, to customer service and effectively using labor. To create the perfect experience, owners must...
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Olympic Gold and Six Sigma
Can you win Olympic Gold with Six Sigma? Are there similarities between an Olympic athlete and Six Sigma? A little half way through the Olympic Games in Rio, we are witnessing some of the best...
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Andon System: What Does It Tell You?
What does your Andon System tell you? Typically, it is a manufacturing process that says there is something wrong and your attention is wrong. The word Andon simply means ‘lantern.’ Just like any...
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Spaghetti Diagram: Eliminating the Redundancies of Flow
Untangling the twists and turns of workflow in a process can be frustrating. Have you ever tried to visualize the flow of a process, from start to finish? In most organizations, it can be convoluted...
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Statistical Process Control (SPC): Are You Monitoring the Behavior?
Are you monitoring vital behavior using Statistical Process Control (SPC)? Operating a business is is all about knowing what is going on across all of your platforms. For many who hear that statement,...
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