Six Sigma, a quality-control methodology first developed for manufacturing, is now used by business and organizations of all types.

A methodology like Six Sigma “requires a change in how you think about your organization and how it works,” Taylor said. It requires shifting loyalties from how your organization operates to how those ...

Key Points The cost of quality reflects both poor and good-quality deliverables. There are numerous avenues where costs can ...

As a manager or executive at a small business, “Six Sigma” is probably not on your to-do list. Yet this proven methodology for quality improvement, developed at Motorola in the early 1980s and ...

How do you implement the Six Sigma methodology? Consider the 5W1H approach when implementing it for your organization. 5W1H (who, what, where, when, why, how) is a method of asking questions about a ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

What is Lean Six Sigma? Lean and Six Sigma, two methodologies evolved separately, share the same ultimate goal: answer voices of customers by achieving process excellence 1. While Lean is famous for ...

A dozen Army organizations that have exhibited superior Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) methodologies to transform business processes were recognized during the 12th Lean Six Sigma (LSS) ...

Marc S. Morrison is a manager in the Houston office of Alvarez & Marsal. Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting helps companies grow stronger bypartnering with management to identify opportunity, ...