{"id":6252,"date":"2023-03-21T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:49:40","slug":"lean-or-six-sigma-which-one-is-right-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/lean-or-six-sigma-which-one-is-right-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean or Six Sigma? Which one is right for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People often ask: &#8220;Jay, should I choose Lean or Six Sigma?&#8221; My answer is, &#8220;It depends.&#8221; Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/784809783?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\u2019m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, people ask me all the time, \u201cJay, what should I start with: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/what-is-lean-video.html\">Lean<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/what-is-six-sigma-video.html\">Six Sigma<\/a>?\u201d I always say: Well, are your processes sluggish? Slow? Are you delivering on time or are you missing it all the time? Then you need Lean. If it&#8217;s taking too long, if your patients are waiting too long in the waiting room: Lean.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;However, if you have too many defects, mistakes and errors, you need Six Sigma. Lean for sluggish, Six Sigma for error-prone, and those two things working in tandem can dramatically accelerate the quality and productivity of your business.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask: &ldquo;Jay, should I choose Lean or Six Sigma?&rdquo; My answer is, &ldquo;It depends.&rdquo; Here&rsquo;s why: &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;You know, people ask me all the time, &ldquo;Jay, what should I start with: Lean or Six Sigma?&rdquo; I always say: Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[166,170],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-lean","tag-six-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}