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When You Expect the Plumber to Build your House

Table of contents Expecting the New Green / Black Belt to Deploy Lean Six Sigma in your Organization is like Expecting the Plumber to Build your House What are some signs that an organization has fallen into this trap: These signs and many more are evidence of...

Can You Train a Green Belt to (Single-Handedly) Save the World?

Table of contentsMy Daily ConversationRelated Articles My Daily Conversation “We want to train a Green Belt to be our CI person (and single-handedly save the world!)” A phone conversation I have almost daily with potential clients calling to get information about...

Are your Executives “Too Busy” for Lean Six Sigma Training?

Table of contentsOur Executives are “Too Busy” for Lean Six Sigma TrainingKey Metric for SuccessWhat the Failure will look likeRelated Articles Our Executives are “Too Busy” for Lean Six Sigma Training “If they support the effort, do they...

How does Traffic and Process Capability (Ppk) Relate?

Table of contentsTraffic and Process Capability (Ppk) Relate?The Capability Indices “Pp” Compares the VOP (Car) to the VOC (Lane)Can Ppk be less than 1?Can Ppk be 0 (Zero)?Can Ppk be less than 0?What if the Car is in the Middle of the Lane?PPK vs. CPK: Key...

Are there Free Excel Alternatives to Minitab?

Table of contentsAre there FREE Excel alternatives to Minitab?Free Microsoft Excel Built In GraphsMicrosoft Excel Data Analysis ToolThird-Party Templates that work with ExcelConclusionRelated Articles Are there FREE Excel alternatives to Minitab? We get...

A story about Effective Instructions and my experience living in Mexico

Table of contentsThis story is about the importance of Effective InstructionsHow does this example relate to Lean and Six Sigma?Could this scenario be avoided?Related Articles This story is about the importance of Effective Instructions Having effective instructions...