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What is your principle?  Is it I am to brilliant to waste my time with lesser beings trying to teach me what I already know?  Look if the money for the MBB program is your ultimate aim and you can’t achieve it any other way than to sit through those classes than do it and get on with your life.

Pitch yourself as an indepent consultant (even if you’re working now), contact hospital department leads, and offer to do Lean Six Sigma work on a pro-bono (free) basis.  That’s how I broke into healthcare/hospital work 8 years ago. 

Hi,
Can I suggest you start with a visual factory (scoreboard). In my experience, over a time period of around a month, performance will improve just by measuring data and throughput. It will also highlight variations between crews, shifts, operators etc. 5S is also an important tool as this can been driven through safety initiatives. Good luck.

Hi,
There are quite a few OR efficiency studies on the web. Type in OR efficiency. Most have been theoretical, not six sigma standard.  I have heard of pathways projects in OR’s but would be keen to hear about your approach. I have always wanted to see a pareto of the key causes of delays in OR’s. This could point to where a project should be…[Read more]

I am curious as to how these measures really affect throughput. In Australia, hospital sites use a OR utilisation measure and also a labour expended measure. Eg they start measuring the first operation from the time the Anasthetics team commences the first line of fluids (outside the OR) and completes the time at the time the patient leaves the…[Read more]

Great advice Dr Maass!  You appear to be the exact type of Professional MBB that folks need leading them.  Based on your advice, Vee will get the experience and then can decide based on his work /efforts, what he wants to do.  I appreciate your comments.
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Eric, I am currently in the…[Read more]

Thanks George. I will alert the staff here at the nursing home so they allow me to use the computer.

Thanks George,
I have been waiting 19 months for your answer and it finally came. Appreciate the feedback. Now, I can get on with my project.

Brandon, actually what she meant was $4K…(Your original post said your GB project was not successful….now you would have us believe it saved $4 million??? Your story is not making much sense.) However Nisha, how come all of a suddent you made $4K impact and earlier you mentioned that the project was screwed up?

If the r square is less than 0.80 or between 0 – 0.80 your correlation could have an error greater than 20 %. In few words, the chances for your calculated values to match the real ones may be 1 in 5. However on natural systems r squares are found to be between 50 – 90 %. This is why it was suggested that you a simple student t evaluation and s…[Read more]

A correlation having an r square less than 1 is already suspicious, especially when it is 70 %. May I offer a suggestion, do a calculation to see the minimum number of samples needed to get a 95 % degree of confidence (alpha = 0.05) and this will tell wherther 10 samples is enough to obtain a robust correlation. From a personal perspective, I…[Read more]

Tamlyn – thanks for the great answer! I really do appreciate it.

Brandon – you are entirely correct about inspecting in quality. The drivers for the fail test is if the product leaks then it won’t be shipped. The customers expectation is that they won’t get a product which leaks and they don’t. All products which leak are captured internally. This is the problem; no one really understand why they leak.I guess…[Read more]

Dr. Scott, didn’t you recently apologize for such useless posts? This is a Six Sigma forum, not an alcoholic forum.

email address is:
 
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Thanks for all your help.

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Thanks for the advice – time to start clicking I think!Rob

Some great guidance – thanks for this!Rob

Any luck with the case study scenario?
10 years of mortgage banking under my belt
What’s in your background?
 

Thnx.