Getting Down to Six Sigma this 2009

Posted by: meikah | 4 January 2009 | 9:39 pm

It’s another year again, and time to evaluate processes. If you have been deep into your Six Sigma efforts last year or the previous years, it might do you more good if you stop a while and look into your current situation.

In so doing, you may ask the following questions:

1. How are your Black Belts and Green Belts holding up?
2. How is the whole Six Sigma team handling data?
3. How are your processes?
4. How is management support getting along?
5. How is the organization taking the Six Sigma initiative?

Over at Hertzler Systems, Inc. website, there’s a good discussion on what factors affect performance and success of a Lean Six Sigma project.In that report, the biggest challenge is how to get the organization’s culture adapt to Six Sigma.

That is followed distantly, by “Data c­ollection challenges�. “Excessive time sent scubbing data� is at the very bottom of the list. In the middle are several issues that sound like cultural issues: Resistance from middle management and continued leaderhsip commitment. Perhaps these are two specific categories of cultural change.

So cultural change is by far the biggest challenge in implementing Lean Six Sigma. For those who have been around this industry for awhile this is hardly controversial.

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