September 2012
Beginner
408 pages
9h 47m
English
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Chapter 5
Identifying and Right-Sizing Projects
In This Chapter
Defining projects to improve your processes
Aligning Six Sigma projects with business needs
Realizing the benefits of a Six Sigma project
The essence of Six Sigma is to solve problems that are impacting business performance. But before you can solve a problem or improve performance, you have to properly define and scope your goal or objective and chart your course — the Six Sigma project. In fact, defining a project is 50 percent of the improvement game, and framing problems the right way is critical to the success of your organization.
The Define stage of the breakthrough strategy (DMAIC) requires you to identify problems to be solved, but to solve them, you must construct Six Sigma projects. To get the most out of your Six Sigma initiative, Six Sigma practitioners and management alike address these problems in a strategic way.
Defining projects for success requires you to recognize problematic areas of the business and subsequently create a clear direction for resolving these problematic areas. The key is to constrain project scope to a manageable and achievable size. Remember the metaphorical question, “How do you ...
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