The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 30 July 2008 | 10:06 pm
It’s time again to do the roundup and learn from similar blogs.
Check out the blogs I’m featuring below.
Mark Graban of LeanBlog shares that the Joint Commission, a non-profit hospital accreditation organization, is investigating the use of Lean and Six Sigma. The reason for doing so is that the Commission wants to improve its internal operations. I say, way to go!
Mike Wroblewski of Got Boondoggle is talking about My CI, my Continuous Improvement, to involve the employees and not only the managers in the continuous improvement effort. This is really swell! Often, an improvement initiative fails because people have not bought the idea because they see little value or involvement in it. Learn more: Top 12 FAQ about My CI.
Ron Pereira of Lean Six Sigma Academy is re-learning an old process, which is fathering a baby girl 
. Congrats, Ron! But he has an interesting post about batching, a process that may not be lean but can be equally efficient as well. I joined the discussion and well you can read my thoughts over there.
Holly Hawkins of iSixSigma Blogosphere talks about Six Sigma for the office. It’s a good post, a down-to-earth, more real application that many non-Six Sigma practitioners can relate. She asks, “Is there variation in the office?” Definitely. What are these? Read on.
Let me end this roundup with lines from Jeffrey K. Liker’s The Toyota Way:
We discovered the top management in the companies with vital programs had a process orientation, while the unsuccessful companies had results-oriented managers. The results-oriented managers immediately wanted to measure the bottom-line results of the continuous improvement program. The process-oriented managers were more patient, believing that an investment in the people and process would lead to the results they desired.
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Lean Six Sigma Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 7 November 2007 | 10:08 pm
It has been a while since I last went around the blogosphere. Today, I’m sharing with you good lean six sigma links. Read on…
Mike of Got Boondoggle? describes the lean journey as taking two steps forward and one step backward. It’s true! Isn’t it that you need to step back to assess a situation in order for you to move forward? And I agree with Mike when he says, “I must admit, part of the allure of the lean journey for me is the challenge. It’s not about the challenge to master the lean tools. It’s not even about the challenge to eliminate waste. For me, the challenge is helping create a learning culture that drives continuous improvement forever, even as we go two steps forward and one step back.” Very well said!
Ron of Lean Six Sigma Academy describes two types of Kaizen: Point Kaizen that looks at only a part and the System Kaizen at the whole. There are good and bad points of each but it’s sure better to have a wholistic view first then break the operation down into more manageable parts. Work gets done faster and better that way.
Over at Lean Blog, Mark shares a link whose writer shares his experience with seeing lean manufacturing in action. The writer claims that seeing lean (literally, as in posters on “lean corners,” 6S, and Kanbans) live is a beautiful thing. Mark’s thinking, on the other hand, makes sense: we should not make platitudes but be champions of action, and always safe action at that.
Let me end this roundup with a news about Transplace, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, that embarked on a lean Six Sigma program. The goal of the company is to bring quality service to its customers, and what better way than going Lean Six Sigma. Read more…
