{"id":1492,"date":"2018-11-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2021-01-26T22:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T05:55:40","slug":"making-process-improvements-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/making-process-improvements-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Process Improvements Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nov-Dec 2018 HBR reports that Lean, Six Sigma and Agile &#8220;always work well initially, but often the gains fade quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21% of improvement projects failed to yield any improvements<\/li>\n<li>Only one-third of improvements continued to yield results after two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s needed to sustain improvements?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consistent measurement and monitoring (i.e., control charts)<\/li>\n<li>Leadership support and coaching<\/li>\n<li>Avoid initiative fatigue caused by jumping from one improvement initiative to another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Start monitoring your improvement projects using QI Macros control charts.<br \/>\nDownload a free trial at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\">https:\/\/www.qimacros.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nov-Dec 2018 HBR reports that Lean, Six Sigma and Agile &ldquo;always work well initially, but often the gains fade quickly.&rdquo; 21% of improvement projects failed to yield any improvements Only one-third of improvements continued to yield results after two years. What&rsquo;s needed to sustain improvements? Consistent measurement and monitoring (i.e., control charts) Leadership support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,5,7],"tags":[302,56,168,170],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jay-arthur-blog","category-lean","category-qi-macros","category-six-sigma","tag-hbr","tag-improvement-projects","tag-qi-macros","tag-six-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}