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Pull Production Makes Only What the Customer Demands
In Lean production, it is commonly understood to use pull production instead of push production, which is implemented with a Kanban system. But what makes the pull production system the way to go?...
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Push/Pull Production for Your Manufacturing Process
Push and pull models of manufacturing are two major approaches implemented by organizations. The decision on which approach to use is often based on their business strategy. Push and pull-based models...
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4 Practical Process Improvement Methods for an Academic Institution
A key part of Business Process Management (BPM) is the application of process improvement methods. These methods are a representation of an overall approach toward achievement of efficiency and...
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Building a Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement
All organizations exhibit a unique culture, whether it has been shaped on purpose or not. However, smart managers understand that this culture is a crucial and important reason for the organization’s...
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How to Implement a Lean Marketing Strategy
Lean brings a fundamental change in the way companies build products and manage activities. It is about validating hypotheses and aims to reduce the waste activities (not bringing value to the...
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3 Ways Lean Six Sigma Can Reduce Absenteeism
Worker absenteeism is a problem that causes countless managers and business owners headaches as they try to figure out how to run their businesses effectively without all hands on deck. Employees are...
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8 Six Sigma and Lean Tools to Improve Your Business
Lately, Six Sigma and Lean have become key buzzwords for progressive organizations that seek to improve their efficiency. Six Sigma denotes a methodology used in business management that makes use...
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Kanban Board Optimizes Efficiency and Process
The Kanban board is a lean tool for managing flow in a process. From simple processes to the most complex, the board will visually represent a every step in a process process and show the status at...
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[VIDEO] Kanban Board Creates Opportunities
Kanban is a lean method to manage and improve systems and process across an organization. The methodology balances the demands with available capacity, and improves the handling of system level...
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What is the Importance of Employee/Customer Involvement in Six Sigma?
There are a few things that will cause a company’s performance to suffer, like non-driven and unmotivated employees. True, your workers may come to work on time each morning and not clock out until...
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8 Concepts of Lean That Are Sure To Smooth Your Work Life
Lean principles not only can be employed by whole companies or whole teams, but can even be adopted at the individual level, to make your life easier and your work more productive. Value is everything...
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How to Improve Service Delivery in Government with Lean Six Sigma
Many challenges exist when trying to implement lean in a governmental context. These include workforce structure, complex relationships with stakeholders, policies that discourage risk taking, and the...
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The Impact of Guanxi on Lean Practices
The Chinese business concept of Guanxi can be translated to mean ‘networks,’ ‘connections’ or ‘relationships.’ However, these oversimplified terms mean that few people understand this fairly complex...
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How to Apply Six Sigma in HR Analytics
Human Resources (HR) is a field that keeps showing stronger and stronger potential for reaping the benefits of proper data analysis procedures, and it should be no surprise that Six Sigma has found a...
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Key Performance Indicators Can Predict an Impending Storm
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are among the most common tools used in business to help manage more effectively and guide the progress of the organization. They provide clarity to murky issues and...
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[VIDEO] Building Strength With Key Performance Indicators
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can shape strategy and fact-based decision making inside businesses, only if those inside the organization act on them. It doesn’t matter how brilliantly you’ve...
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How to Use the Six Sigma Methodology to Improve Student Performance
As a service which is delivered at cost to its customers, education requires that product and process be carefully defined. However, a lack of definition has resulted in a large number of institutions...
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Big Data and its Six Sigma Application in Manufacturing
As the adoption of big data technology is on the rise, we keep seeing some amazing applications in various industries. It should come as no surprise that manufacturing is one of the prime areas for...
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Why is Lean Six Sigma Important to the Environment?
Lean and Six Sigma are among the most powerful and popular business process improvement methodologies which are being rapidly deployed by a variety of service and manufacturing organizations across...
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3 Effective Six Sigma Tools for Higher Education Process Improvement
The Six Sigma methodology is a process improvement tactic that was originally introduced within the manufacturing space, but has quickly found adoption into higher education. With the concepts of the...
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