Six Sigma

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Can Six Sigma Help The Recycling Problem With China?

July 21, 2019July 21, 2019 bizpi China, contamination, defect, dmaic, Environment, football, iowa football, kinnick stadium, p chart, recycling, sigma, Six Sigma, six sigma projects, SPC, statistics

You might be hearing a lot about recycling and the changes going on in China over the past year, called

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Six Sigma 

Using Six Sigma to Improve B Corporation Assessment Scores

July 28, 2018July 28, 2018 bizpi B Corps, Certified B Corporation, Six Sigma, Teagen Stalte

For Teagen’s internship project, I asked him to use the Six Sigma DMAIC framework to help me improve my B

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sustainability 

BPI is a Certified B Corporation! So what does that mean?

February 4, 2018July 6, 2018 bizpi B Corps, B the Change, Benefit Corporation, Certified B Corporation, Economic, Environment, lean, lean six sigma, Lean Six Sigma Consulting, People, Planet, Profit, Six Sigma, Social, Triple Bottom Line

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Portland, Oregon, 2/3/2018 – Business Performance Improvement (BPI), a Lean and Six Sigma consulting firm focused on sustainability,

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training 

How to use candy to teach or learn Six Sigma

February 27, 2016January 28, 2019 bizpi M&Ms. statistics with candy, Minitab, Six Sigma, six sigma certification, six sigma exercises, six sigma training, Skittles, teach six sigma, teaching statistics, Yellow Belt

During our Yellow Belt (beginner Six Sigma) class, we have found lots of success teach statistical concepts using candy. It is a

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Leadership 

Employee engagement that will make you jealous!

May 16, 2015December 16, 2018 bizpi 2 second lean, employee engagement, everyday lean, lean, paul akers, simple lean, Six Sigma, Toyota, toyota production system, TPS

One of the most difficult things for business owners and managers is to engage their employees in continuous improvements every

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ANOVA charts confidence control correlation design DOE experiments gage R&R graphs hypothesis Minitab MSA quality regression Six Sigma software SPC statistics training 

Online statistics training from Minitab has great animation and examples

December 13, 2012August 4, 2016 bizpi ANOVA, charts, confidence, control, correlation, design, DOE, experiments, gage R&R, graphs, hypothesis, Minitab, MSA, quality, regression, Six Sigma, software, SPC, statistics, training

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

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50 assessment benchmarking best practices book company comparison excellence improvement lean pollock process qmss score Six Sigma waste 

How many of the 50 Best Practices for Process Excellence has your company implemented?

November 29, 2012May 15, 2018 bizpi 50, assessment, benchmarking, best practices, book, company, comparison, excellence, improvement, lean, pollock, process, qmss, score, Six Sigma, waste

Lee Pollock and Mark Kiemele are authors of a new book, Reversing the Culture of Waste – 50 Best Practices to

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business customers data document efficiency employees improvement lean optimization problems reduce report satisfaction Six Sigma sub time upset value waste 

Reducing your time might seem like lean, but you can easily anger your customers

August 18, 2012July 9, 2016 bizpi business, customers, data, document, efficiency, employees, improvement, lean, optimization, problems, reduce, report, satisfaction, Six Sigma, sub, time, upset, value, waste

Lean is about increasing value to your customer. Often times, this requires you to eliminate waste in the process. However,

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cycle time deliver employees errors improvement lean manufacturing measure multitasking office process quality reviews Six Sigma templates throughput transactional value wip workplace 

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

July 25, 2012July 9, 2016 bizpi cycle time, deliver, employees, errors, improvement, lean, manufacturing, measure, multitasking, office, process, quality, reviews, Six Sigma, templates, throughput, transactional, value, wip, workplace

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

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bottom line chart completions cycle time event excel financials improvement lean process project reductions savings Six Sigma variation waste wip 

Cost savings from process improvements can be misleading

April 25, 2011July 9, 2016 bizpi bottom line, chart, completions, cycle time, event, excel, financials, improvement, lean, process, project, reductions, savings, Six Sigma, variation, waste, wip

I’ve been to many conferences, and have seen lots of companies claim cost savings and metric improvements that are very

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