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Category Archives: 4th Sigma
4th Sigma: Decompose Now And Projects Won’t Go Bad Later!
Long time readers of this Blog are familiar with my “4th Sigma” series on building simpler, easy to implement process improvement. I’ve argued against training for (and using) all of the tools that Six Sigma offers. It’s not that the … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Tracking A Project’s Financial Benefit Is Pure Genius
At the Wednesday (11/30) meeting of the NYC chapter of the Project Management Institute, Marc Resch gave a compelling presentation on the importance of cash flow models. In a very short time, Mr. Resch covered a lot of important territory. … Continue reading
4th Sigma: Napoleon’s Rabbits & Identifying Best Practices
Don’t you hate it when an overblown public debate is started by the questionable use of a single phrase or word (probably half of the debates in Washington these days)? However, there are times when just one-word matters. In, “The … Continue reading
4th Sigma: A Tale of Efficiency… Why Bigger Is Better!
This Blog is another chapter in our ongoing collection of tips, tools and observations to drive simple process improvement…The 4th Sigma. Today, we’re going to talk about growth. A healthy firm is always trying to grow. Growth may be needed … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Sigma, Best Practices, Decision Making, Delivering Services, Unique Ideas
Tagged Build vs. Buy, Efficiency, Improve, Measure
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4th Sigma: How To Listen When The Client Is Silent
If you’ve been following this Blog, you know that we have been discussing variability: how the products and services we provide can be better or worse at any given moment. We then created a tool for identifying and quantifying the … Continue reading
4th Sigma: P Charts Made Simple
It’s been a while since we spent any time on the 4th Sigma, so let’s take a few minutes today and talk about using the 4th Sigma process to address some problems in your operation. If you’re a regular reader, … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Sigma, Best Practices, Delivering Services, Improvement, Continuous or Not
Tagged 4th Sigma, Projects, Reporting, Six Sigma, Track, transform
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4th Sigma: Project Charters, Part 3 – Building Consensus
A Project Charter is a document that describes a project, names the people who will perform the project, what their roles will be and the name of the project sponsor (the individual that requested the project). Any book on Six … Continue reading
4th Sigma: Project Charters, Part 2 – A Step by Step Guide
When you’re ready to start a project you need to create a Project Charter. In our last Blog we went over the consequences of not having a charter. Today, we’re going to cover the steps you need to take to … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Sigma, corporations, Improve, Measure, Projects, Quality, Six Sigma, transform
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4th Sigma: Project Charters, Part 1 – Do We Need Charters?
If you were to take everything in the very large Six Sigma toolkit and try to identify the top ten most important tools, the Project Charter has got to be pretty near the top. A charter is just a very … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Sigma, Improve, Projects, Quality, Satisfaction, Six Sigma, transform
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The 4th Sigma: The Paradox of Customer Service
You’ve probably heard about it elsewhere, and if you haven’t in these Blogs we’ve discussed how the Six Sigma framework defines waste as any activity that doesn’t contribute value. For example, in “Is Quality Control A Waste of Time?“ we … Continue reading
