quality – Business Performance Improvement (BPI)

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Online statistics training from Minitab has great animation and examples

Minitab statistical software is one of the most powerful and popular programs around, especially for those in the Six Sigma

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Problem solving is critical for any business

Does your company have a problem solving process, like PDCA or 8-D? If so, do people use it? How do

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We don’t need any help, we are already lean!

“Lean and Six Sigma are only for manufacturing organizations!” “Our processes/company is unique, so that won’t work here!” “We’re already

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Don’t “check the box” with soft improvement tools

We recently were reminded of a problem that comes up every so often in regards to process improvement tools. The

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New spin (literally) on an old quality tool

I love the Pareto chart. It’s one of the simplest quality tools, yet one of the most powerful, and underused

Lean Six Sigma Bursts

We share our takes and thoughts on a variety of topics related to process improvement (specifically Lean and Six Sigma methods), Bursts are rapid improvement activities, so this sounded like a good word to use for these short audio clips. We’ll try to keep them under 5 minutes each.

In one of my recent Lean classes, I discuss the difference between planning kaizen events and working kaizen events. Planning events end up with a 90-day implemenatation plan. Working events end up with 80% completion of actions by the end of the event, with 30 days to complete the remaining 20% of the actions. I try and encourage more working sessions, but planning is sometimes really important to decide where to focus the working sessions in the future.

To better understand this podcast, watch the State of Washington VSM video (about 10 minutes).

Links

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