Typhoon Ondoy Challenges the Efficiency of Organizations

By this time, I know you’ve heard about typhoon Ondoy and how it devastated many cities in the Philippines.

Since mid-day Saturday, SMS, emails, and all other microbloging networks had been deluged with updates on flooded areas.  Before that Saturday ended, simple message turned into cries for help.

There are many accounts about Typhoon Ondoy, but let me share with you an article that pretty much sums up what happened on the height of the storm: In social media, a deluge of SOS messages

Indeed, the incident has encouraged global attention and spurred worldwide concern. Many Filipinos overseas, friends of Filipinos, countries, even strangers have extended help for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy.
The situation is heartbreaking. Organizations and local government units that are supposed to be on top of the situation in times like these have been deemed remiss in their duties. But the support from all over the world has come pouring in as fast and as strong as the flood waters were. The goodness of the human heart again emerges.

Below are sites that lead you to where you can send in your donations for Typhoon Ondoy victims or help find missing persons.

• ABS-CBN’s Sagip Kapamilya
• Ateneo Task Force Ondoy
• Ayala Foundation US
• American Red Cross
• The Accidental Teacher
• Dumaguete Residents
• GMA Kapuso Foundation
• Google
• Gossip Gehl
• Here’s to Life
• Philippine Aid
• Sour Politics
• Spot.ph
• University of the Philippines

With such magnitude of need, can Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma help local agencies and organizations deliver help and support efficiently?

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Podcast: The Role Of Lean Six Sigma At Xerox

Xerox has made a major commitment to using Lean Six Sigma tools and methodology – both to drive improvements in our own business and to deliver measurable results for customers. Their unique, disciplined approach involves analyzing business processes and identifying ways to eliminate both errors and unnecessary steps. Xerox Global Services looks for ways to deliver improvements quickly and focus on leveraging your existing IT investments. From streamlining paper-choked workflows to automating labor-intensive functions, the results can be remarkable.

Listen to the podcast now!

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Lean Six Sigma in Handwashing Improves Healthcare Service

In the U.S., two million cases of patient deaths or serious illnesses are caused by infection acquired in the hospitals. Because of this, healthcare management embarked on a hand-hygiene compliance.

This effort aims to have 90% percentage in hand hygiene compliance. The system is incorporating Lean Six Sigma principles.

Read the study here.

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Six Sigma Forum: The Next Step to Transformation

Through this Leadership Circle, ISSSP and Software AG will provide a forum where senior leaders in Six Sigma, Lean, and Process, and IT can discuss transformation, along with critical issues and opportunities that face deployments today. Specifically, we will:

• Discuss and share ideas for leveraging the tools, techniques and methodologies of these disciplines for greater synergy
• Explore with peers and industry leaders how might craft a programmatic approach
• Discover best practices, anecdotes, and examples for achieving this leverage;
• Network with a special interest group
• Take away practical ideas that you can implement immediately

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Teaching Six Sigma in the Workplace

The basics in teaching or training apply to all learners. However, the methodology differs depending on the kind of learners. For Six Sigma training, trainers will be faced with adult learners.

How to teach Six Sigma to adults?

An article on iSixSigma give us some tips on how to do it.

Read: Teaching Six Sigma Awareness/Methodology in Workplace

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On Demand Webinar For Lean Six Sigma And Quality Consultants

Business901 introduced Marketing your Black Belt, a webinar for Lean Six Sigma Consultants and Organizations. This webinar specifically addressed issues such as customer acquisition, retention and how you effectively communicate and collaborate with them.

Joe Dager, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and authorized Duct Tape Marketing Coach presented the webinar.

Find out more about this webinar!

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Lean Six Sigma in Fastfood

By its name alone, fastfood restaurants should serve good food fast and quick. So just imagine when it fails to do just that. It will naturally result in disgruntled customers, which could lead to the death of the business.

Now Lean Six Sigma promises to speed up processes without reconciling the quality of performance. Thus, if you think of improving your fastfood business, what better way than to implement Lean Six Sigma.

An article on Six Sigma Online says that indeed Lean Six Sigma can help improve fastfood operations.

For the sake of practical example, imagine that a fast food restaurant is experiencing wastes on the grill line because there are too many steps and too many people completing these steps which of course leads to things slowing down. With Lean Six Sigma, the entire process can be analyzed, and statistical analysis can demonstrate where wastes occur, how to get rid of them, and better ways to improve the situation on a factual and data-driven level. After looking at everything, you can see that there are too many people in the same spot, and it is slowing things down. By reallocating the employees throughout the workplace, it will be much easier to succeed in speed and efficiency.

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Wordless Wednesday

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The SixSig Roundup

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.

Ebooks Nest shares a book titled, Six Sigma Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide. You may download the ebook now! Caution: It’s not free though, though it says free ebooks download.

Defense Inudstrial Base blog shares that General Dynamics demonstrates roll-controlled guided mortar for potential US Army applications. General Dynamics do this by using Lean Six Sigma. Read on…

The Health Care Blog talks about balancing consistency and innovation in healthcare. “The global adoption of the “Six Sigma” program, an initiative originally developed by Motorola to reduce variability and ensure consistency, is perhaps the most visible example of the value most industries place upon achieving uniformity.” Read on…

ReliablePlant Blogs shares how lean evolves, and how to make the most of process improvement. “What we have seen recently is that lean is moving into non-traditional areas of business. A lot of our recent work has been in: maintenance, procurement, distribution, engineering, the office and even the company kitchen! Read on…

Lean Six Sigma Academy shares an introduction to lean video. View it now!

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6 Steps to Get Leadership Involved in Lean Six Sigma

Time and again, we are told that leadership involvement is very crucial in any Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma initiatives. But often Six Sigma teams still have a hard time getting full support from the leaders.

Here are six steps to get leadership involved in Lean Six Sigma.

1. Verify the core needs of the customers and the business. 
2. Identify and map suitable metrics that are aligned with these requirements. This may require the creation of new metrics and possibly the elimination of outdated measures.
3. Understand the performance over time for each of the metrics.
4. Strategically determine which projects have the highest priority. Leaders will need to determine the criteria for the matrix, and having them work through the matrix creates ownership.
5. Provide the resources for projects. This will start with a Champion to help guide the project, secure the resources and report progress to the leaders on a regular basis.
6. Continue the cycle of involvement. As projects are completed and results achieved, leadership must begin the process of continuing to determine the next projects, provide resources…

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Source:
iSixSigma Library

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