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I often hear horror stories from companies that started lots of teams, let them choose their own problems to solve, and waited patiently for the money to start rolling in. Months pass; years pass. Teams become frustrated. "Six Sigma doesn't work!" they cry. Don't let this happen to you! Laser focus every team you start. This means that leadership will want to work with an improvement expert to develop the first two elements of a successful improvement story:
This should take no more than 3-5 days using existing data. If a leader working with an improvement expert can't get to this level of specificity, neither can a team! Never start a team that doesn't have a good chance of succeeding. You'll just waste their time and threaten the survival of Six Sigma. Now that you've narrowed your focus, you can identify the experts who should be involved in the root cause analysis. (This is another good reason to laser-focus your improvement efforts; otherwise you won't have the right people on the team.) Laser-focus your root cause analysis in 4-8 hours. TQM teams met once a week for an hour. This built weeks of delay into the process. If a problem's worth fixing, if it's a mission-critical problem, fix it fast! I've rarely had a team that couldn't find the root causes in a day or less. Then disband the root cause team and identify an implementation team (leaders and workers). Laser focus the implementation: Implementing the changes may take days, weeks or even months, depending on changes to information and other systems. Project manage the implementation and find another "big bar" and do another root cause analysis. This approach will save you a fortune in time and money usually wasted on "shotgun" problem solving. Focus, Focus, Focus. © 2007 Jay Arthur, the KnowWare® Man, works with managers who want to plug the leaks in their cash flow. Hire Jay Arthur to train your staff in his one-day Lean Six Sigma Workshop! Contact Jay at (888) 468-1537, lifestar@rmi.net. Rights to reprint this article in company periodicals is freely given with the inclusion of the following tag line: "© 2007 Jay Arthur, the KnowWare® Man, (888) 468-1537, lifestar@rmi.net."
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It contains over 70 fill in the blank templates such as the Ishikawa diagram, QFD, DOE, FMEA, PPAP, and Gage R&R for MSA. Performs ANOVA, t-test, F-test, and regression analysis.
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