Blogs

Blogs from iSixSigma Version 1.0 and 2.0 (Years 2000 to 2011).

Have you been paying attention to your iSixSigma User Profile rankings? We've had a couple of community members jump levels in the past few months.

Using Performance Boards Successfully in Services

Faced with stiffening competition, increasingly demanding customers, high labor costs, and, in some markets, slowing growth, service businesses around the world are trying to boost their productivity. Although manufacturing businesses can raise productivity levels by monitoring and reducing waste and…

Leveraging Lean Six Sigma Tools for Strategic Planning

NRMC CMIO began development of a strategic plan in October 2013.

Kaizen

Rework

Normal Distribution

The Cox-Box: Normal Distribution

Cold Beer

Recently I toured the Ellis Island Casino and Brewery in Las Vegas. Our guide stated that their customers loved "cold" beer. Like most of you I immediately thought of Six Sigma critical-to-quality (CTQ) trees.

Project Report

A Look at 6S

The Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tool 6S has long been used by LSS practitioners as a tool for organizing work spaces from shop floors to operating rooms. This tool can also have tremendous value in organizing an area where many workers spend the majority of their work time – the electronic workspace.