Project Management Articles
Benchmarking is comparing the results of other organizations for the superior processes and results achieved by them with that of your organization. It is comparing your own processes with the best practices of the top-level companies. It is not mere goal setting, but evaluating the approach of these companies to achieve the sustained results.
82: What Is DFSS?
An overview of DFSS, or design for six sigma, and how it relates to six sigma methodology overall.
83: Understanding Six Sigma Deployment Failures
There is no specific definition of "failure" of the Six Sigma deployment. However, there arises a need to get the assistance of the Black Belts and Green Belts to support the business when the consultants have moved on.
84: The Six Sigma Cycle of Change
To achieve Six Sigma, a company ought to concentrate on a change in process aimed at specific results. Change - like anything else- involves following certain steps that will lead to your goal and the implementation of Six Sigma. Six Sigma is about culture change. It involves a cycle of changes in behavior, company culture change and achieving results from experiences.
85: Sustaining Results From Six Sigma
Many companies are now facing a problem of lack of commitment and loyalty from their own employees.
86: Six Sigma: Making Good Change Agents
When a business leader finds the need to carry out changes, the most important thing they need is a good team to carry out the initiative. Six Sigma team leaders carry out overall responsibilities with the support of the project managers who focus on specific areas.
87: Six Sigma Costs And Savings
The emphasis of Six Sigma is on the quantification of each aspect of improvement, including the cost of improvement or the saving gained out of this improvement as well due to reduction in the defects. Six Sigma project implementation becomes the motivating force of Six Sigma operational level controls.
88: Six Sigma: Keys To A Successful Change Deployment Process
Continuous improvement initiatives are undertaken by many companies to ensure that they are up to the mark to the specifications of the customer and on a strong base, even in adverse conditions. Depending upon the sector and the needs of the organization, tools such as TQM, Six Sigma, Lean Transformation and so on are used.
89: Six Sigma And Workout
Six Sigma deployment leaders usually find change management to be the most challenging aspect of deploying Six Sigma. In many deployments, the resistance to change is overcome through exercise of command or by mandating or by relating belt certification to promotion. Both these strategies have a negative impact.
90: Which Customers Should A Six Sigma Company Listen To?
The two things that are most important for the success of a Six Sigma initiative are customer satisfaction and alignment of the project to the organizational objective. The first thing companies are usually told about with respect to Six Sigma strategies is listening to the customer.
91: Tips And Technology For Six Sigma In Mobile Workforces
Many companies have successfully used Six Sigma as a mechanism to improve processes and satisfy customers. Six Sigma projects have been undertaken in various areas, and there have been some relevant changes and gains from it.
92: Measuring And Improving Service Processes With Six Sigma
Services are primary to any organization, be it manufacturing, financial or service sector. Loan processing in financial institutions, the accounts departments in manufacturing companies and recruitment units of all sorts of companies are nothing but the services processes of the organization.
93: Six Sigma Cost of Quality
Cost of Quality has been typically associated with the costs incurred due to defects in production and the restoration of better products. However, costs incurred on the delivery of a product at acceptable levels of quality and preventing delivery of inferior quality product or service can also be covered under the cost of quality concept.
94: Six Sigma Training In 3 Easy Steps
Training and education are the keys to Six Sigma success. Successful deployment of Six Sigma projects can be possible if the Green Belts and Black Belts are trained fully to handle any situations in the execution of the project.
95: Quality Function Deployment for Competitive Advantage
In today's competitive environment, companies fall short when they just concentrate on giving what the customer wants and do not consider the need to exceed these desires. Truly listening to the voice of the customer (VOC), and providing accordingly, is one way to ensure that competitive advantage.
96: Involving Finance in Six Sigma - Do It Early and Fully
Six Sigma projects claim to reduce costs and increase savings. However, assumptions are not enough - there should be sound proof. Organizations need to measure the financial benefits achieved from the project implementation. Who else would be a better candidate for assessing this financial change but the finance department?
97: Guidelines For Making Lean Six Sigma Work In Sales
For a long time, Lean Six Sigma has been implemented in the manufacturing and engineering sectors. One recent area of implementation is sales departments. It has been proven by successful implementations in various companies that Six Sigma can be equally effective in the sales process.
98: 10 Eternal Truths of Project Management
In the life of any project, big or small there's a number of 'unexpected's' an experience project manager will learn to expect.
99: Things A Six Sigma Green Belt Should Know
One of the improvements of Six Sigma is the definition of quality management functions. Six Sigma borrows terms from martial arts ranking terms to identify several roles for its successful implementation. You will find Executive Leadership, Champions, Master Black Belts, Experts, Black Belts, Green Belts and Yellow Belts.
100: Six Sigma: Choosing The Best Method For Listening To The Customer
The success of Six Sigma is dependent upon the quality given to the customer. A Six Sigma project starts and ends with the customer. To determine the quality expected and to understand the process, input, output, and changes required, companies need to listen to the customer properly.
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