Improve Maturity with Capabilities

In today's fast-paced business environment, businesses need a performance framework that can grow over time, be benchmarked against the competition, and stretch the imagination of employees and stakeholders. Capabilities and maturity models can better position your business for future competition and unforeseen threats and opportunities....

Understanding The Increasing Relevancy Of Six Sigma Pilot Projects

Six Sigma may have turned out to be one of the greatest success stories of our time, but even so, businesses need to address caution obviously because there can never be a system that's completely failsafe or risk free....

The Lowdown On Six Sigma Tools, Techniques, Concepts And Methodologies

It's likely that you have heard quite a lot about Six Sigma and the benefits associated with it. But, do you really understand what it signifies and how exactly does it achieve all the prominent objectives such as cost reductions, process improvements and quality enhancements?...

Understanding Commonly Used Six Sigma Methodologies

A simple definition of Six Sigma would be that it is a quality management system with three main objectives (i.e., reducing costs, improving quality and achieving highly efficient business processes) wherein the defect rate never exceeds 3.4 per million opportunities that might exist for such defects to occur. So, how exactly does Six Sigma manage to achieve such seemingly loftier goals and objectives?...

Software Systems - Playing An Important Role In Six Sigma Implementations

Over the years, there have been innumerable Six Sigma implementations worldwide - and what is noteworthy is that most of them have turned out to be successful. When we talk about Six Sigma implementations, it would be worth mentioning that more often than not it is Six Sigma professionals such as Black Belts and Master Black Belts who take all the credit for successful Six Sigma implementations....

An Overview Of Basic Lean Six Sigma Training Tools And Techniques

When Six Sigma Training concepts and methodologies were first developed, they were used mainly for reducing the defect rate. However, over the years many new offshoots of Six Sigma have come into existence, obviously because businesses wanted to achieve a lot more than just a reduction in the defect rate....

DFSS - The Secret Behind The Success Of New Products And Services

Just a few decades back, businesses concentrated more on the profitability aspect when designing new products or services. However, with quite a lot of products and services failing to achieve desired results, businesses were forced to rethink their strategies - and most importantly, identify the main reasons responsible for such failures....

Can Green Belts Shoulder The Responsibility Of Six Sigma Implementations?

Well, a simple "yes" or "no" will never be sufficient for answering this question, obviously because it all depends on the type of Six Sigma implementation and the skills and talents of Green Belts....

An Overview Of Six Sigma Quality Management Systems

Six Sigma quality management systems can be described as a set of concepts, techniques and methodologies that are deployed by businesses to achieve important organizational objectives such as quality improvements and cost reductions. Such systems were designed and developed for the first time in the late eighties by the Motorola company....

6 Common Reasons IT Projects Fail

A project can fail for a combination of reasons. By understanding why projects fail, outsourcers can plan ahead to avoid potential problems....