Leading Holistic Improvement with Lean Six Sigma 2.0, Second edition

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Sustaining Momentum and Growing

“To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.”

—Winston Churchill

You have successfully launched your Lean Six Sigma initiative (from Chapter 6, “Launching the Initiative”), and you have been working on putting in place systems that are needed to effectively manage the deployment (from Chapter 7, “Managing the Effort”). Many Lean Six Sigma initiatives begin to hit a lull at this point as other priorities gradually erode the momentum. Now is the time to implement systems and processes that will help you sustain the energy. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense, and growth of the initiative can be a good offensive tactic that helps maintain momentum.

This chapter focuses on the defensive ...