Six Sigma improves business efficiency, reduces defects, and enhances customer satisfaction. Principles focus on understanding customer needs, data-driven problem solving, and stakeholder involvement.

Is Six Sigma for startups viable? Typically, when we think of Six Sigma, we think of deployments of the methodology across enterprises. Large organizations have been the constant domain of Six Sigma ...

As a manager or executive at a small business, “Six Sigma” is probably not on your to-do list. Yet this proven methodology for quality improvement, developed at Motorola in the early 1980s and ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

With an average annual production rate of 2,500,000 units, the estimated savings they would achieve by reaching the desired ...

In her position as a traffic manager for an advertising agency in Wilmington, Delaware, Suzanne Fields’ duties include working on procedures to make sure everything flows smoothly. Looking to ...

The international financial environment is more interconnected than ever, with the effects of unstable or inconsistent monetary policies being felt far beyond a single organization. In today’s ...

Watch for an article, "â ¦And Not a Drop to Drink, Water a Test for Emergency Managers" coming out this month in the Homeland Security Affairs Journal. Mike Byrne, ICF wrote the article about applying ...

What gets measured gets done. And when you analyze what you’re doing in a quantitative way, you identify opportunities you didn’t know you had. That may be a simplistic way of defining Six Sigma and ...

To the casual observer, Professor Wendy Martin is a smart, mechanical engineer who, before entering the world of education, built a successful career in the beverage container industry perfecting the ...

In the EMS environment, poka-yokes are beneficial because they improve throughput or mitigate defect opportunities without product design or process changes. Poka-yoke focuses on three types of ...