{"id":7953,"date":"2026-02-10T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:47:21","slug":"why-six-sigma-implementations-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/why-six-sigma-implementations-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Six Sigma Implementations Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ever wonder why so many Six Sigma implementations fail? The answer is simple.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Download my free ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation &#8211; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1123924128?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.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Do you ever wonder why some Six Sigma implementations succeed but most don&#8217;t? I can tell you in one word: Results\u2026 dollar signs.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, if we&#8217;re not continuously making improvements and solving problems and affecting the bottom line, boosting profits, reducing cost, more profits. More profits equals more money. More money equals more stuff. If we&#8217;re not doing that, then Six Sigma fails. And that makes it look like, \u2018Oh, Six Sigma bad.\u2019 No, you just weren&#8217;t chasing results. You were chasing training and teams or something, but you weren&#8217;t chasing the right metric: bottom line, profit-enhancing, productivity-enhancing results.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week, like how we implement Six Sigma.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why so many Six Sigma implementations fail? The answer is simple. Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation &ndash; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results. &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;Do you ever wonder why some Six Sigma implementations succeed but most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[168,170],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-qi-macros","tag-six-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","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=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8238,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/8238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}