They say that Six Sigma was created by a Motorola engineer, who ended up dying in the company cafeteria.
It’s all about cost-cutting. Sure, there are other benefits such as:
- Cost reduction (duh!)
- Culture charge
- Customer retention
- Cycle-time reduction
- Defect reduction
- Market-share growth
- Product/service development
- Productivity improvements
Now I think Six Sigma can work for you, but the two things I personally don’t like about it?
- takes too long to run a Six Sigma project.
- Six Sigma practitioners are known as "Belts", as in "I’m a Six Sigma Master Black Belt".
Yes, you do get a martial arts belt.
All too much wankery for me.
I agree with some of the bs. Six Sigma can be a great change tool (cost reduction) if properly implemented and understood. There are two interesting articles that go into the caveats of Six Sigma.
1. Six Sigma Brown Belt and Other Self Declared Six Sigma Belt Colors
2. When Executives use Six Sigma to Eliminate Jobs Ruthlessly
Before applying any Six Sigma initiative please read about “Introduction to Measurement Systems Analysis” at http://sixsigmaz.com