Using Six Sigma to Set Up a Consulting Business
Posted by: meikah | 21 May 2010 | 12:07 am
John Weathington of TechRepublic blog shares that when he started his business consulting he had nothing much, and so he had quite a problem.
So for those who plan to go into business consulting, he recommends to view the business as a process and look quality methodologies such as Six Sigma and its tools: DMAIC to DMADV. Using this tool, here are his suggested five phases of building a consulting process.
- Define – First, determine what you want your business to produce, or its output.
- Measure – You need to consider who will benefit from your service (i.e., your clients), and what their definition is of a quality service.
- Analyze – In this brainstorming phase, you start putting down ideas for how to systematically run your business to accomplish your goals and provide a quality service for your clients.
- Design – This is where you start organizing everything into the set of processes that will run your business.
- Verify – This phase starts with prototyping. Try out your process on a small scale in the real world and see what happens.
Filed under: Business Improvement, Processes, Project Management, Six Sigma
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Insights from Thomas Farrell, Six Sigma and Business Improvement 2009 CEO of the Year
Posted by: meikah | 3 March 2010 | 7:55 pm
Last year, The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards, organized by WCBF, awarded Thomas Farrell as the Six Sigma and Business Improvement CEO of the Year.
Now, hear from him. Click here for his insights.
Filed under: Business Improvement, Dominion Resources, Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma
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The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 8 February 2010 | 7:54 pm
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.
The Business Organizational blog says that Six Sigma is important in business because it takes values much higher than other techniques to improve quality, such as TQM. Read on…
Over at Sigma blog, there is a good discussion about Six Sigma assessment. The assessment of Six Sigma is necessary, especially if new attempts by companies to improve the plans show that the trip will belong and difficult. Read on…
Recruitment blog discusses Six Sigma projects in the Human Resources department. The article says that the HR department is suited for Six Sigma projects: on implementation of a project in the HR activities and the involvement of the HR department in carrying out some of the activities in the execution of Six Sigma project at the organizational level. Read on…
Pharma Business Intelligence blog asks this question about what is happening at Toyota these days: did Six Sigma fail or did people fail? The article is saying that processes don’t produce results, people do. It takes people to engage in a process – for better or for worse – to produce something. Read on…
The Scratching Post blog features a Lean Six Sigma movie. It is about convincing management to go into Lean Six Sigma. It’s an interesting one, actually. View the movie here.
Filed under: Business Improvement, Human Resource, Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma
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Learn from the 2009 Winner of the Six Sigma and Business Improvement CEO of the Year
Posted by: meikah | 18 January 2010 | 9:27 pm
Six Sigma Zone is kind enough to share the case study of the 2009 Winner of the Six Sigma and Business Improvement CEO of the Year.
