Free Lean Six Sigma Simplified Articles

• Lean Six Sigma Welcome and Overview
• Lesson 1: Laser-Focus Your Improvement Effort
• Lesson 2: Double Your Quality
• Lesson 3: Double Your Speed
• Lesson 4: Sustain Your Improvements
• Lesson 5: Implementing Lean Six Sigma using crawl-walk-run
• Lesson 6: Principles of Lean

• Faster, Better, Cheaper Healthcare in Five Days Using Lean Six Sigma
  • Faster Hospitals in Five Days (PDF)
  • Better Hospitals in Five Days (PDF)
  • Cheaper (More Profitable) Hospitals in Five Days (PDF)
    
• Bar Codes Bust Medication Errors
• Emergency Department (ED) Length of Stay (PDF)
• IHI's 5 Million Lives Campaign - I Pledge Allegiance to Science and Evidence
• Friday Night Lights
• Lean Doctor's Office
• Lean Healthcare? - A Case Study
• Lean Healthcare
• Mistake Proofing ICU Rounding Forms
• Virginia Mason Medical Center - Case Study

• If It Wasn't on Fire, You Wouldn't Have to Put It Out! (PDF)
• Customer Supplier Relationships
• Quality in Customer Service
• Oops!
• Call Center Quality
• Measuring Marketing
• Service vs Manufacturing
• Lean 5S for Software Development
• Lean Computer Programming
• Lean Software
• Moneyball
• Signals vs Noise
• Software Quality
• Transactional Six Sigma
• Box Plot Case Study

• Six Sigma in a Nutshell
• Finding the Invisible Low Hanging Fruit
• Control Charts for Breakthrough Improvement
• Histograms to Reduce Process and Product Deviation
• Pareto Charts for Breakthrough Improvement
• Root Cause Analysis Using Fishbone Diagrams

• AIAG Measurement System Analysis MSA Gage R&R
• Gage R&R Bias and Linearity
• Gage R&R Destructive Testing
• Gage R&R One-Sided Destructive Testing

• 50 Shades of Red
• Curse of Randomness
• Exceeded Expectations
• FedEx Days to Deliver Results Fast
• Firefighters Guide to Root Cause Analysis
• Go and See
• Green Lean Six Sigma
• Growing Your Business with Lean Six Sigma
• Inventory is Evil
• Lean 3 P
• Lean 5S Strategy and Broken Windows
• Lean Knowledge Work
• Lean Learning
• Lean Offices
• Lean Services - Do More With What You've Got
• Lean Six Sigma
• Lean Six Sigma the Easy Way
• Lost Time Analysis
• Management by Quality
• Mind the Gap
• Mousetraps or Processes?
• Multiply Your Time
• New Year's Resolutions - Minor in Major Things
• Parkinson's Law and Lean
• Red Tape
• ROTI - Return on Time Invested
• Six Sigma Sports
• Talent vs Process
• Theory of Constraints and Lean Six Sigma
• The Religion of Reuse
• The Seductive Backlog
• Three Simple Rules for Success
• Time Distortion
• TLS - Theory of Constraints and Lean Six Sigma
• Visual Thinking
• Workarounds
• Xerox
• You Don't Need More People

• Data Collection and Measurement
• Dirty 30 of Manufacturing
• Fix the Problem, Not the Blame
• How I Saved Millions Using a 1960s Movie Title - Dirty Dozen Process for Root Cause Analysis
• The Foolishness of the Five Senses
• The Process Paradox
• Process 101
• Are You a Six Sigma Salmon?
• Spring Forward, Fall Back
• The Death of Manufacturing Special
• Leadership Commitment to Six Sigma
• The State of Six Sigma
• The Guerilla Guide to Six Sigma
• What comes first: Process or Technology?
• Show Me the Money
• Taguchi Loss Function - stability vs capability
• Freakomomics - The Importance of Using Data
• Freakomomics 2 - Become a Detective Superhero
• Jack Welch on Six Sigma and Winning
• Defects, Mistakes and Errors
• The Hole in Krispy Kreme
• Job Security
• Pareto Power Law
• Six Sigma BC - Before Computers
• Six Sigma Billing
• Workarounds
• What is a Process? SIPOC Diagram
• Why Is Six Sigma So Slow?
• Winning

• Reverse Engineering an Improvement Story
• Project Selection
• Lack of Connection Between Project Steps
• Fishbone Problems

• Emergency Department (ED) Length of Stay
• Risk Free Way to Implement Six Sigma
• Develop Your Master Improvement Story
• Focus, Focus, Focus
• Double Your Quality with Six Sigma
• Double Your Speed with Six Sigma
• Training vs Experience
• Measurement Simplicity
• Finding the Invisible Low Hanging Fruit
• Prerequisites for Six Sigma
• Core Score - Choosing the Right Metrics
• Mistake Proofing with Color
• Mistake Proofing with Choice Architecture
• What to Measure

• Barriers to Lean Six Sigma
• Bridezilla Meets Six Sigma
• Plows vs Tractors
• CEO Kills Six Sigma
• Defending Your Data
• Good Data - Bad Decisions
• Primitive Cultures
• The High Cost of Bad Data
• Six Sigma Tarpits
• The Biggest Barrier to Lean Six Sigma
• Why Do Six Sigma Teams Fail?
• The Overtime Barrier to Lean Six Sigma
• Brainstorming Pitfalls
• Trend Lines Can Lie
• Primitive Charts Hide Improvements
• Statistical Bullies
• Why Six Sigma Teams Fail
• Go No Go Decisions - Hypothesis Testing for Business Decisions

All of these tools are included in QI Macros Add-in for Excel

• Box and Whisker Plot
• Control Charts
• DPMO Six Sigma Calculator
• Flow Chart
• Frequency Histogram
• Gantt Chart
• Histogram with Cp and Cpk
• Fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram
• Pareto Chart
• PPAP Forms - AIAG 4th edition
• Run Chart
• Scatter Plot Matrix
• Scatter Plot Diagram
• Sample Size Calculator
• Six Sigma Software
• SPC Software
• SPC Charts
• Statistical Process Control Software

• Design of Experiments DOE
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis FMEA
• FMEA Example
• FMEA Template
• Quality Function Deployment QFD House of Quality
• Reverse R&D - May 2005

• Can Six Sigma Kill Your Company?
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Measuring Innovation
• Innovation vs Improvement
• Innovative Countermeasures
• Process Innovation

• Change Management - High Reliability Organizations
• Change Management - What is It?
• Change Managment - Transition Planning
• Conflicting Goals
• Barriers to Six Sigma
• Broken Reward Systems
• Decision Delays
• Decisive Force
• Decide Fast, Act Fast
• Fear of Defects, Mistakes and Errors
• Honor Your Progress
• Large Scale Change
• Right Sizing Your Teams
• Tips for Helping People Embrace Change
• You Don't Need More People, You Need Less Waste and Rework