Welcome to Six Sigma Steps

Accenture's success story

According to the world class global management consulting, Technology Services and Outsourcing Company, Accenture: "To meet today's business challenges, smart companies are using "Lean Six Sigma" to help establish a culture of disciplined, data-driven decision making. This allows them to use scarce resources more purposefully, thereby systematically eliminating process variation and reducing cycle times to increase productivity and achieve high performance."

Eastman Kodak's success story

Eastman Kodak began their Six Sigma quality initiative in the 1990s. Kodak reported that they saved over $100 million with the implementation of Six Sigma and other quality improvement programs.

How can you benefit from Six Sigma?

The methodology and the tools will help you define the projects that will directly impact your bottom line. It is up to you to decide when to launch the process.

Our only recommendation is that you get started using the skills of an experiences Six Sigma expert.

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Six Sigma Methodology
Six Sigma is a way of thinking and doing business. With a focus on value creation and eliminating defects through fundamental process knowledge, Six Sigma methods integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Six Sigma tools are used to improve the processes and results of an organisation. They are applicable across every discipline including: business management, human resources, design, development, production, sales, marketing, administration and service. Six Sigma offers a wealth of measurable benefits.'When skilfully applied by your people, it reduces costs by 50% or more through a self-funded approach to improvement reduces the waste chain affords a better understanding of customer requirements improves delivery and quality performance provides critical process inputs needed to respond to changing customer requirements develops robust products and processes drives improvements rapidly with internal resources drives measurable increase in productivity
Six Sigma is based on total stakeholder focus both external and internal (employees, shareholders other process owners or process impacted groups or individuals). It is a methodology that helps to: achieve corporate vision by satisfying all customer needs satisfy customer needs by driving processes for perfection identify core processes that drive customer satisfaction measure performance through the Sigma Quality Metric involve and empower employees as part of this process Our approach is flexible and our attitude, creative. Merits of Six Sigma Six Sigma is a powerful and an effective way of addressing concerns in any organisation as it places clear focus on achieving measurable and quantifiable results No Six Sigma project is approved unless the bottom-line impact has been clearly identified and defined. It requires an unprecedented importance on strong and passionate leadership and the support required for its successful deployment Its methodology of problem solving integrates human elements It utilises the tools and techniques for fixing problems in business processes in a sequential and disciplined fashion Each tool and technique within the Six Sigma methodology has a role to play and when, where, why and how these tools or techniques should be applied is the difference between success and failure of a Six Sigma project It creates an infrastructure of Champions, Master Black Belts (MBBs), Black Belts (BBs) and Green Belts (GBs) that lead, deploy and implement the approach It emphasises the importance of data and decision making based on facts and data rather than assumptions and hunches ! Six Sigma forces people to put measurements in place. Measurement must be considered as a part of the culture change It utilises the concept of statistical thinking and encourages the application of well-proven statistical tools and techniques for defect reduction through process variability reduction methods (e.g.: statistical process control and design of experiments)