{"id":3270,"date":"2021-01-05T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2023-04-10T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:16:28","slug":"six-sigma-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/six-sigma-dogma\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Sigma Dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>When I started in quality improvement, everyone preached Total Quality Management (TQM). Before that it was quality circles. I&#8217;d like you to consider that the gospel of Six Sigma is holding back progress. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/491734697?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/store\/lean-six-sigma-demystified\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and the QI Macros [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The other day I was [presenting] a webinar for one of the ASQ sections; I\u2019ve been doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Lean-Six-Sigma.pdf\">Agile Lean Six Sigma<\/a> webinars for the Agile sections that want something to do during this pandemic. One of the guys said, \u201cWell, you&#8217;re sort of telling me that that we don&#8217;t need Green Belts and Black Belts to do a project. You don&#8217;t have to have one of those two belts to do a project,&#8221; because I was talking about how [with] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/\">Yellow Belt training<\/a> you could do that in a day and get results.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;They were (he was) kind of freaked out by that. I&#8217;m going to suggest to you that this&#8230; we&#8217;ve been immersed in this Six Sigma dogma that somebody dreamed up. Right? Michael Harry at Motorola, they came up with the whole Six Sigma and the belting thing, and [the question is] how much did you learn?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Guess what? I don&#8217;t believe that you need a belt of any color to start solving problems, you just need to know what I call \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/breakthrough-improvement-excel\/magnificent-seven-tools\/\">the magnificent seven tools<\/a>,\u201d have software like QI Macros to help you do the data mining, drill down and get into stuff and you can start making improvements right away. I don&#8217;t think you have to be an expert. I don&#8217;t think you have to spend years in training and months in projects. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessary.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Start using the Tools of Quality. Save time, save money, save lives, and I don&#8217;t care what color belt you have, even the master senseis go back to wearing a White Belt because they go back to being a learner. They get over their &#8220;Black Beltness&#8221; and they just start going back to the White Belt of the learner.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started in quality improvement, everyone preached Total Quality Management (TQM). Before that it was quality circles. I&rsquo;d like you to consider that the gospel of Six Sigma is holding back progress. 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