Innovating Lean Six Sigma: A Strategic Guide to Deploying the World's Most Effective Business Improvement Process

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Quick Fixes for Big Issues: Enterprise kaizen

WITH CHUCK COX

A rapidly growing international company with nearly 60,000 employees working in 80 countries was having trouble filling all of its new job openings for technical positions. The company spent a great deal of time finding ideal candidates. On average, it took well over three months for the hiring process to reach a point where the company could make a firm offer. During those months, however, the recruits would often be poached by competing companies that were willing to make a job offer within three or four weeks. That left the international company scrambling, having to start the hiring ...