Six Sigma Basics

Photo by palindrome6996 Six Sigma Belts loosely parallel the merit-based belt system you see in American martial arts school. Lighter...

William Shewhart Walter Shewhart is often called the “Father of Quality Control” – he worked as a process engineer for...

Michael Porter developed Porter’s Five Forces to help companies analyze their competitiveness in the marketplace. It looks at five different...

Introducing Six Sigma to an organization doesn’t just require a few management-level changes. In fact, Six Sigma deployments succeed when...

Design for Excellence (aka Design for X, DFX) is a systematic approach that is used to achieve a targeted objective....

photo by Larry Odebrecht To be an effective change agent, you must recognize the importance of your own perceptions and...

Critical Success Factors for Six Sigma. Photo by Bernard Goldbach When you’re deploying Six Sigma to an organization, there’s a...

Deming William Edwards Deming was an American management consultant and educator who greatly impacted the process management and control fields...

A Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a framework for managing business strategy. It maps strategic choices to aspects of your business....

Kaoru Ishikawa Kaoru Ishikawa is considered the Father of Japanese Quality. He invented the Fishbone diagram (aka 4M/5M or cause...