With its focus on facts, cause-and-effect thinking, and documentation, every element of the Six Sigma framework (process improvement, process, product and service design, process management, and dashboards) can substantially increase the organization’s knowledge capital in the following ways: ... ->

By looking at the performance of the entire process, the team can identify where a yield improvement project would be most beneficial. Here, the identified project may be either a process improvement or a design project. Process management can also be used as a framework to standardize processes or ... ->

In some companies, dashboards facilitate decisions by using traffic light approaches that compare the current performance with the target and that assess the gap as green (on track or better), yellow (the process is still in control but deviates from the goal), or red (the measure is moving away sig... ->

5.    Six Sigma’s belt-training and leadership development Companies that aim for transformation and that intend to use Six Sigma as the way they run their businesses are well advised to train all executives as Green Belts and to implement a dashboard management system (at the very ... ->

·                 The United States Postal Service’s five-year strategic plan identifies quality as a key strategy, using Six Sigma as an underlying framework. ·        &nb... ->

Six Sigma was developed by Motorola in its semiconductor business (Breyfogle 1999, 43). Semiconductor manufacturing is typically a high-volume business where profitability is dependent on process yields. Defects in the process can make entire lots unusable, and therefore the Six Sigma methodology wi... ->

His fourth deadly disease is job-hopping. Deming contrasts excessive turnover of executive talent in the West with the stability of employment in Japanese companies. Certainly companies that experience high rates of employees turnover realize the impossibility of maintaining any long-term program. ... ->

The 14 points are Deming’s unique contribution to the understanding of quality. In addition, he also developed a guide to the barriers that stand in the way of quality improvement – his ‘seven deadly diseases’. The ‘seven deadly diseases’ or barriers to a new style of ma... ->