LEAN and Six Sigma are complementary strategies to satisfy customers. On the one side, LEAN eliminates waste from your processes and provides a tool set almost everybody in your company can apply successfully. On the other side, Six Sigma reduces variation in your processes and supports to have products and processes in specification a customer desires. Although there is a lot of synergy between LEAN and Six Sigma, [Read more…] about 4 Reasons Why LEAN Becomes More Popular Than Six Sigma
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Thanking Employees Boosts your Company
Thanking employees by rewarding and recognition seems to be a common practice, but obviously many companies do not apply it. One reason is that still some companies believe paying compensation (or raise salary) should be enough to motivate their employees. [Read more…] about Thanking Employees Boosts your Company
How Employee Engagement Influences your Business and Corporate Culture
Typically employees have job descriptions and they are assigned to fulfill a certain function. Often these employees are integrated in a matrix organization where some process owners are assigned to the key value stream processes and support processes. Perpendicular to that you have the functions like Quality Control, Finance, Industrial Engineering, HR and so on. But, for example, what happens when problems in the processes occur which are extended over the local “horizon” of a single employee? [Read more…] about How Employee Engagement Influences your Business and Corporate Culture
Continuous Improvement journey at Nemours
This video provides an overview of the Continuous Improvement journey at Nemours, including the history and philosophy of CI, and the tools and activities being used throughout the organization. [Read more…] about Continuous Improvement journey at Nemours
Leader Standard Work – ein wichtiger Baustein für die Implementierung von Lean
Bei der Einführung von Lean wird sich vieles verändern. Die Prozesse werden sich ändern und vor allem die Sichtweise auf die Prozesse wird sich ändern. Natürlich wird sich auch das Arbeitsumfeld ändern und noch wichtiger, die Führungskräfte müssen ihr Verhalten ändern. Insbesondere Führungskräfte müssen dies akzeptieren und sich dem entsprechend weiter entwickeln, wie sie auch ihre Mitarbeiter weiterentwickeln müssen. [Read more…] about Leader Standard Work – ein wichtiger Baustein für die Implementierung von Lean
Dilberts Sicht auf Lean und Six Sigma
Lean und Six Sigma sind ja nun zwei wohl bekannte (Prozess-) Management-Philosophien, welche oft als integrierter Ansatz in vielen Unternehmen weltweit eingesetzt werden. Dabei verhalten sich Lean uns Six Sigma komplementär zu einander und ergänzen sich gut. [Read more…] about Dilberts Sicht auf Lean und Six Sigma
Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
LEAN Manufacturing – a video overview by SME [Read more…] about Introduction to Lean Manufacturing