{"id":918,"date":"2017-09-24T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2017-09-24T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:32:24","slug":"measuring-six-sigma-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/measuring-six-sigma-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Six Sigma Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailygazette.com\/article\/2017\/09\/24\/downsizing-of-ge-workforce-was-painful-period\">article talks about how GE measured Six Sigma success<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Engineers and scientists were measured on how many Six Sigma projects they completed during the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since I know that 4% of the business is causing over half of the waste, rework and lost profit (the 4-50 rule), making everyone do &#8220;Six Sigma projects&#8221; is a form of <em>overproduction<\/em> (violating a Lean rule). It creates waste, rework and unhappy employees. It makes people put trivial improvements in Six Sigma format to achieve the goals.<\/p>\n<p>Measure Six Sigma success by<em> bottom-line, profit and productivity enhancing results<\/em>, not projects. Use data to focus improvements to maximize results and minimize effort. Don&#8217;t involve anyone that doesn&#8217;t need to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent article talks about how GE measured Six Sigma success: &ldquo;Engineers and scientists were measured on how many Six Sigma projects they completed during the year.&rdquo; Since I know that 4% of the business is causing over half of the waste, rework and lost profit (the 4-50 rule), making everyone do &ldquo;Six Sigma projects&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[168,170],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qi-macros","category-six-sigma","tag-qi-macros","tag-six-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}