Tag: Six Sigma

Lean and Six Sigma Behaviors

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By Mike Lopez:Before Lean, many of the activities that are presently structured as Lean projects used to take place anyway. They flew under corporate...

Keeping high-tech Valley jobs with Lean and Six Sigma

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East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale It's not often we read about manufacturing work coming back from Asia...

Toyota Asks "What is Six Sigma?"

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Six Sigma Stigma (PDF) Here's an article from Fast Company magazine. The author visited Toyota in Japan and asked a somewhat uninformed question: Eager to show we...

Lean or Six Sigma?

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In his article "Putting Six Sigma in Perspective", Michael Hammer uses the mantra:"Use the right tool for the right problem". An excerpt that summarizes...

Six Sigma Blog: Book Review: Lean Six Sigma for Service

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Six Sigma BlogThe Six Sigma Blog has a link to a review of the Michael George book, Lean Six Sigma for Service.Please check out...

Bringing Lean Systems Thinking to Six Sigma

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Quality Digest Magazine: Another article by Jamie Flinchbaugh and Paul Mullenhour, of the Lean Learning Center. They outline failure modes, including: "One...