Lean Six Sigma is the combination of two, time-tested process improvement tools that are essential to a company’s success.
Six Sigma, a methodology designed to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects, has gained industry-wide acceptance as a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. It is therefore important to understand your current business performance and what processes are keeping your organization from reaching its full potential.
Lean deals with improving the speed of a process by reducing waste and eliminating non-value-added steps.
Six Sigma improves performance by focusing on those aspects of a process that are critical to quality from the customer perspective and eliminating variation in that process. Identified project work is driven by utilizing DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), the formal Six Sigma methodology to execute change across functions.
What improvements can be expected in applying a Lean Six Sigma strategy?
- Significant bottom-line results within the first year, often covering the cost of the initial investment
- Involvement of key members of the organization in a focused/efficient way
- Development of skill sets within your organization that can be used to effectively support other initiatives
We achieve these improvements in the three key elements that constitute quality—the customer, the employee and business processes—the chief drivers of operational excellence. At the strategic level, our custom approach aligns an organization keenly to its marketplace, delivering bottom-line financial results. At the operational level, we move business product or service attributes within the zone of customer specifications and dramatically shrink process variation, the cause of defects that negatively affect customers.
Training and Coaching Support is Available:
Performance improvements are generally achieved within a few months of the program’s start. Our flexible boutique offering allows our qualified consultants to trigger a faster return meeting individual client needs.