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SixSigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Looking beyond Japan, iconic sixsigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. the United States.
When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , SixSigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). Many companies adopted SixSigma in the late 1990s. Consider this example.
To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one. No one has looked at things quite this way.
Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and SixSigma. When complaints to elected officials started mounting from property developers dissatisfied with delays, Girard pulled together a team from many divisions to address the problem.
We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. I was about to teach the customer segment of a SixSigma class near Palmdale, CA, for Lockheed Martin. The benefits were significant. Fun Leaders Are Light.
Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.
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