S​electing a project to apply Six Sigma methodology to is an important first step. There is no argument that Six Sigma is beneficial, yet the process also has a significant cost element. The project must be selected on factors that will justify the resource and time commitment (effort) vs the potential gain (result). ​Considerations​ResultDoes it

Factors and Considerations in Selecting a Six Sigma Project

Customer satisfaction is an essential aspect of any business. It is vital to keep customers happy and satisfied with your product or service. If you fail to do so, you risk losing them as customers. KEY Takeaways When you deliver products/services which are different from what the customers expect, it leads to customer dissatisfaction.The main

Customer Dissatisfaction – Reasons and Ways to Deal with it.

As a Six Sigma Black Belt, you will have to deal with teams. You will have a project team doing the project with you and you being the leader of that improvement project team. To perform that function of a team leader, you need to understand how teams work? What makes teams successful? How to

4 Types of Teams

In a team, different individuals have different roles to play. Here are four roles for a team: Leader, Facilitator, Coach or Member. All these are the components of a team, but remember that these need not be exclusive. A leader can act as a facilitator and a coach as well at different times. It’s not necessary that

4 Types of Team Roles

KEY Takeaways Internal customers are those within an organization. External customers are people or organizations outside of the organization.Customer segmentation helps businesses to understand the target market better and offer customized products and services.There are four main ways to segment customers into smaller groups: demographic, psychographic, geographic, and behavioral. Customer TypesBroadly speaking, there are two

Types of Customers and Customer Segmentation

Introduction When you are doing a Six Sigma project, you are trying to take the performance of the process to the highest level. When you want to reduce the defect level, you want to reduce that to that level which the best in class companies have. If you are improving the delivery time, you want

Benchmarking – Definition, Types and Steps