{"id":6756,"date":"2024-01-30T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:03:39","slug":"the-rise-and-slide-of-six-sigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/the-rise-and-slide-of-six-sigma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Slide of Six Sigma"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>When companies start up Six Sigma programs, they are often gung ho and over commit. Here&#8217;s how to start and sustain Lean Six Sigma without as much effort and expense.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/869867148?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>Download my free ebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\">Agile Process Innovation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, I&#8217;ve been around Quality Improvement now for over 30 years. Because of the QI Macros, I see a pattern occur in a lot of companies: They get really excited, they&#8217;re going after Six Sigma and they buy a bunch of licenses. Then a few years later, they only upgrade about half of them. Then a few years later they upgrade maybe two thirds of those, and that&#8217;s kind of where they stay.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I think that sometimes people get overly excited about Lean and Six Sigma and overcommit and overtrain. It takes them a while to learn what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;One of the things that I have found is that these long training programs\u2026 really are not useful because you get people who take the training, they do one project (maybe) and then they&#8217;re done. That&#8217;s it. Their resume looks just fine now.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Guess what? I came up with a method to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/use-just-in-time-training-to-accelerate-lean-six-sigma-results\/\">do Lean Six Sigma training and get results in about a day<\/a>. You&#8217;re not going to learn everything. I&#8217;ve noticed over the last few years there&#8217;s a number of companies who are doing presentations at quality conferences about how they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/hacking-lean-six-sigma-training\/\">narrowed their training days down to a couple of days and get results<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Let&#8217;s do things a little bit faster, better and cheaper; use some Agile Process Innovation.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When companies start up Six Sigma programs, they are often gung ho and over commit. 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