Control Phase – Lean Six Sigma Moneybelt

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Control or Sustain to Ensure Improvement Sticks

Teams often fail to implement the Control Phase of DMAIC. That results in waste on a grand scale. Here’s why:

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“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].

“I don’t know about you, I talk to people all the time and they say “Jay, I made this great improvement and 6 months later it was gone…” Made this great improvement; six months later, it was gone. I say, “Did you implement the Control phase of DMAIC?

Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.

Forgetting The Control Phase?

Are you making one of the most common mistakes in Six Sigma? Are you forgetting the control phase?

If you do forget to implement a control plan and control charts to monitor and corrective actions, you might just as well have not wasted everyone’s time.



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Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Jay Arthur Blog, QI Macros, Six Sigma.