Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor: Deployment Strategies for Financial Services, Health Care, and the Rest of the Real Economy

Chapter 8. Making Six Sigma Your Strategic Signature

	“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
	--Proverbs 29:18

Your Six Sigma initiative is now up and running. You are getting improvements in all areas of the company—all processes, all functions, suppliers, and customers. You have recognized that Six Sigma can be applied not only to ailing processes, but also to any sub-par process, enabling the company to drive continuous improvement across all its business processes. You have overcome some barriers, and Six Sigma is working. Now you are thinking about how you can sustain and grow your Six Sigma initiative. You want to get even more out of Six Sigma. The way to sustain and grow your Six Sigma initiative is to make Six Sigma part of, if ...