Compensation for Black Belts
Posted by: meikah | 27 May 2010 | 11:22 pm
If you are an organization that are developing Black Belts and doesn’t have an idea about the compensation, here’s a good article for you.
Read: Six Sigma Black Belts – Salary and Compensation
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“How do you measure a year in the life… with Six Sigma?”
Posted by: meikah | 24 May 2010 | 7:44 pm
Here’s an interesting account from Tiffany Westendorf about how it is to be a Six Sigma practitioner and practically live a Six Sigma life.
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Six Sigma Review: A Fresh View of Six Sigma Data and Tools
Posted by: meikah | 2 December 2009 | 9:34 pm
David Hallowell, writing for iSixSigma, encourages Six Sigma practitioners to create a fresh view of Six Sigma data and tools.
David says that this fresh view will help practitioners get a broader understanding of Six Sigma and how it can be applied to processes, especially when you are dealing with new situations.
Read: Creating a Fresh View of Six Sigma Data and Tools
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Spotlight on Six Sigma Professionals
Posted by: meikah | 3 November 2009 | 9:51 pm
Two Six Sigma professionals this week vow to continue doing their work applying their Lean/Six Sigma expertise.
Katina Kravik is the new CEO of Northwire. She says, “We will continue to invest heavily in our valued employees in the areas of professional development, including Design for Six Sigma, project management and lean manufacturing. These platforms will enable us to add more value to our customers, and innovate a wider and deeper breadth of product offerings with increased velocity.” [Source]
Vikas Bhalla is the new Head of Outsourcing at ExlService Holdings, Inc. (EXL). As Head of Outsourcing, Vikas will lead outsourcing operations for all EXL delivery centers globally. Vikas is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has been with EXL for the last eight years. [Source]
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PowerSteering Software Customers Cited for Outstanding Six Sigma Achievements
Posted by: meikah | 1 November 2009 | 7:42 pm
Three PowerSteering customers were recognized at The 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards.
- Thomas F Farrell II of Dominion was named the Six Sigma & Business Improvement CEO of the Year.
- Colonel Robert C Morris Jr. of the US Army received the Six Sigma & Business Improvement Deployment Leader of the Year Award.
- The US Army’s Distributed Learning Directorate was a Joint Winner of The Platinum Award for Process Excellence Project.
Other PowerSteering customers, including Merck, Raytheon, and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, were named as finalists in several award categories.
Congratulations!
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iSixSigma’s Top 10 Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals
Posted by: meikah | 26 October 2009 | 6:24 pm
Again, this year, iSixSigma comes up with the Top 10 Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals (2009). According to Jessica Harper, editor in chief of iSixSigma, “these companies establish an environment that Six Sigma professionals want to work in – and will excel in.”
Here’s the list in alphabetical order:
- Cardinal Health Inc.
- Computacenter AG & Co. oHG
- Ecolab Inc.
- McKesson Corp.
- Merck & Co. Inc.
- Pfizer Inc.
- Piramal Healthcare Ltd.
- Starwood Hotels, North America Operation
- Vought Aircraft Industries Inc.
- Xerox Corp.
Compare it with last year’s list (2008), McKesson Corp. and Xerox Corporation again made it on this years’ list. The companies will be awarded and recognized next year at the iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards, Feb. 3, 2010 at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, South Beach, Miami, Fla., USA.
Read here how the companies were chosen.
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Does Being a Six Sigma Certified Save You Your Job?
Posted by: meikah | 28 April 2009 | 7:38 pm
Layoffs seem to be the trend these days. I can’t say I blame all the companies who had to let go of their employees. I know many of them had thought long and hard before laying off people. Times are just hard and they have no choice but to streamline or cease business.
Over at SixSigmatuts, it appears that certified Six Sigma practitioners have a lower rate of being laid off than those who are not. A study can attest to this. Here are the results:
- There is a statistically significant lower layoff rate between those that are training in the Six Sigma methodology and those who have not.
- People who have not been trained and certified in Six Sigma are twice as likely to lose their job than certified Green Belts.
Well, if this were true, and you are a certified Six Sigma practitioner then you’re among the lucky ones. 
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Schwarze Industries Take on a Six Sigma Black Belt for President
Posted by: meikah | 29 March 2009 | 7:41 pm
ForConstructionPros.com reports that Schwarze Industries has a new president, Bob Faulhaber. What interested SixSig in this announcement is Faulhaber’s background on Six Sigma:
He is Toyota Production System trained, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and has over 30 years of manufacturing experience serving a variety of industries, including automotive, fire and rescue vehicles, telecommunications and industrial controls.
With this in his sleeve, I’m sure Faulhaber will bring in new good opportunities to Schwarze.
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Six Sigma in the University
Posted by: meikah | 10 February 2009 | 9:45 pm
Ferris State University Board of Trustees has just taken in a new member, Alisha Baker. Ms. Baker used to work for DuPont Automotive Finishes as a customer service manager. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Ferris President David Eisler says,
“Ms. Baker’s experience with quality as a Six Sigma Black Belt and with manufacturing in the automotive sector is a wonderful addition to our board of trustees as we seek to improve the Michigan economy. We are very pleased that she brings her perspective of southeast Michigan to our board as Ferris continues to meet the needs of our citizens in this area.”
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The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 10 February 2009 | 7:10 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.
Discover6Sigma shares the concept of Affinity Diagram. If you’re handling large and complex data, and you need to evaluate and come up with a decision using that data, then affinity diagraming may just be useful.
At Your Marketing Machine, an entry talks about companies going into lean, but whose lean efforts don’t t even touch marketing operations. Thus the post recommends to lean your marketing.
The Art of Service talks about the need for discipline in the IT service management. Since ITSM is a process-based framework, then it is complementary with Six Sigma or business process management.
noank6.com talks about the role of the champion in Six Sigma. Six Sigma Champions have to undertake the very important task of aligning the Six Sigma projects to the objectives of the organization.
GembaTM Panta Rei asks, where did value stream mapping come from? The idea might have originated from John Shook and Mike Rother who are both pioneers in introducing material and information flow diagramming and developing lean thinking.
