Analysis of Variance – Tools of the Trade

Around the world in dozens of offices, someone was trained and then given Six Sigma projects. Some were trained well and recognize that you won’t use every Six Sigma tool for every project. Some were trained by a self-important belt who taught them to use every single Six Sigma tool there is. So what I […]

Six Sigma Strategies, part 3

Picking up where we left off last week, we have hit the home stretch in creating a Six Sigma framework for your organization. So let’s go over the last steps in creating your framework… Create and Validate Measurement Dashboards This is one of the more poignant parts of Six Sigma and it’s one of the […]

Kaizen: More Than Just a Word

This blog post comes out of a recent conversation about Six Sigma specifics. I was discussing a Six Sigma engagement and the client asked to see specific experience in Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese word for improvement, for Six Sigma purposes it means continuous improvement. To be categorized as a Six Sigma project, the project […]