How to tackle your business’ problem areas: A case study

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Join us as we take a look at Environment Canada – the Canadian government’s department responsible for the nation’s environment. Whilst ten years have passed since the organization took the decision to adopt PRINCE2, this case study is still highly relevant to businesses today. The problem areas they...

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Six Sigma for Software – A Role Based System

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Because the application of the Six Sigma methodology is relatively new to Software and IT, many of the readers of this web site may be unclear as to the methods of deploying Six Sigma into an organization successfully. From participation in the discussions section at iSixSigma Software, it...

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Basic Strategies for Avoiding and Overcoming Resistance

The pattern is so predictable as to be universal. A leadership team announces to a company that they are going to launch Lean Six Sigma. The next few months are a blur of activity with executives and their direct reports scrambling to conduct an assessment, plan the deployment...

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Three Steps to Successful Six Sigma Project Selections

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Project selection is one of the most critical and challenging activities faced by Six Sigma companies. Most organizations are able to identify a host of project opportunities, but the difficulty arises in sizing and packaging those opportunities to create meaningful projects. To be successful, the project selection process...

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Improving Lean Six Sigma Process with Lean Six Sigma

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Lean Six Sigma is a process improvement program, a management engineer would say, that is built upon basic industrial engineering techniques.The program combines two ideas – Lean and Six Sigma. Lean is a collection of techniques for decreasing the time to provide products or services by eliminating process...

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Six Sigma Aids in Resource Planning for IT Employees

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Effective resource planning is an important part of any process improvement program. Formalizing processes and developing measurement systems helps to determine the value of internal projects from a human capital perspective. A measurement system for effective resource planning in implementing project goals may be particularly helpful for information...

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9 Lessons Project Managers have learned this year

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We are itching to see the back of 2020. It has been a year unlike any other.The pandemic brought us stress and worry. The government's ever-changing guidelines threw us curve balls and had us jumping through hoops. And for months on end, we have been in a state...

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Applying Theory of Constraints to Manage Bottlenecks

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The theory of constraints is an important tool for improving process flows. The implications of the theory are far reaching in terms of understanding bottlenecks to a process and better managing these bottlenecks to create an efficient process flow.The theory of constraints is an important tool for operations...

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