It’s time again for some link-loving and see what other blogs are saying about Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma and other quality improvement processes.
Brain Needed Space puts out ideas in his post that can make you think more about tools and their functions. Read it’s post on a Butter Knife Works, too.
The Cameron-Brooks’ Blog says that communication skills are important for management or leadership posts, especially when you are working on Six Sigma, Lean or other quality projects that involve peer to peer interaction, influencing and persuading higher level personnel and leading change initiatives.
Organizational Change blog talks about how company politics and Six Sigma is America’s new genesis. Six Sigma successes demand certain and persuasible communication at all levels. When government can effectively consult that it is behind that change-over and can consult the matter-of-fact aspects of the change-over, partisans and turf maneuvering can be countered and destroy. Any change-over in an order determination heed some partisans, either contrived or lately from lassitude. Read on…
The Tao of Zen Nihilism blog has an interesting explanation or a logical presentation on the premise that sales do not equate quality.
LSS Academy‘s post on Line Balancing at MacDonald’s makes you think about your processes. Are you adding one more step to improve a process, or is adding one more step to the process is really the solution? Well, we do that here, too, especially in collecting toll fees. The toll management would field workers down the line to collect the fees ahead. It sure wors, but as Ron asked, is it the only way to improve things? For me, bottlenecks in tollgates can be eliminated if the e-pass (electronic pass) is made more affordable and mandatory to all motorists. 
