by admin | Sep 24, 2015 | Business Improvement, Certification, Learning, Productivity, Six Sigma, Training
Today we want to discuss Six Sigma certification and the decaying of certification standards, an understanding of our journey to becoming Master Black Belts will help. I started out being trained as a Black belt in the first wave of Black belts trained outside of...
by admin | May 28, 2015 | Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Uncategorized
This week we decided we should have a look at another case study. In this case a European Cell Phone Manufacturer/Assembler with manufacturing plants in China. This Cell Phone manufacturer assembled cell phones for one of a leading global cell phone brands. In this...
by admin | May 20, 2015 | Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Throughput, Training, Uncategorized
Process Analysis is one of the key areas to making significant improvements in any process. Process Analysis can take various different forms however we’ll start at the beginning. When ever we start a Business Improvement Project there is always a process involved....
by admin | May 13, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Uncategorized
We are often asked, how quickly can we achieve some improvements? In this day and age everyone wants to make improvements straight away. It’s understandable to want to get results right away however you need to remember that a process has not suddenly started...
by admin | May 6, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Training, Uncategorized
Businesses collect data. If your business is like most businesses you have a lot of data, and only a small proportion of the data is used in a meaningful way. However it is not uncommon to find that the data required for a Business Improvement Project does not exist....
by admin | May 1, 2015 | Business Improvement, Kaizen, Lean, Pipeline, Productivity, Results, Risk, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Training
When working on Business Improvement Deployments with larger clients we are almost always asked “Should our Business Improvement team have a centralised or a decentralised structure?” The answer is “it depends”. First lets take a look at what we mean by the two...
