{"id":7959,"date":"2026-06-23T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:48:55","slug":"if-a-six-sigma-yellow-belt-can-save-10000-per-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/if-a-six-sigma-yellow-belt-can-save-10000-per-project\/","title":{"rendered":"If a Six Sigma Yellow Belt can Save $10,000 per project"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a Six Sigma Yellow Belt can save $10,000 per project, wouldn&#8217;t you spend a few hundred dollars to make them more successful? What are costs of not getting them the tools they need?<\/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\/1123932320?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#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;I forget that sometimes I can see things that other people can&#8217;t see. They&#8217;re just intuitive to me. So, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikel_Harry\">Mikel Harry<\/a>, I saw him maybe a decade ago and he said the next wave of Six Sigma is Yellow Belts&#8230; saving $10,000 or $20,000 per project. Now, if you can spend&#8230; $400 on QI Macros to help your Yellow Belts save $10,000 this year, how often would you do that? Endlessly, right? Endlessly.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;And yet, I find that the bean counters who control the purchase of software are only thinking about today&#8217;s little cost here. They&#8217;re not thinking about the opportunity benefit of having their Yellow Belts save tens of thousands, millions of dollars. They&#8217;re not thinking about that. They only think about their little bottom line thing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So, sometimes we have to look into the future, not just be trapped in the past or the present. We have to anticipate what is possible and then go chase that.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week. Let&#8217;s spend a little money to make our people wildly productive.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a Six Sigma Yellow Belt can save $10,000 per project, wouldn&rsquo;t you spend a few hundred dollars to make them more successful? What are costs of not getting them the tools they need? 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