Why Standard Six Sigma Analysis Toolkits Are Losing their Applicability

For better understanding, let us shed some light on some of the main reasons that are forcing businesses to look at the inherent limitations of standard Six Sigma analysis tools and techniques in terms of their applicability in today's highly competitive business environment. Increasing Complexity of Business Processes Over the years, business processes have become increasingly complex, making it quite difficult to carry out an analysis using the conventional Six Sigma statistical tools and techniques. Even if a business somehow manages to do so, it would not help much simply because there will be no certainly that the results obtained from the analysis reflect the true state of affairs.

Part 5 of 7 - The Secret to Overcoming Stagnation and Decline

It's easy to follow the path of least resistance. Ask any leader and he or she will describe employees who failed to give their best. On the other hand, it's a rare day when a leader admits to playing it safe within his or her comfort zone. This leadership challenge has a name: apathy. You recognize it by its symptoms: indecisiveness, lack of drive, lack of creativity, lack of focus, stagnation, burnout, imbalance, and the list goes on and on. Part 5 of this 7-part series emphasizes the power of courage: 1. Courage lifts you up when you're down. When leaders believe in themselves, they get back up even after the hardest of falls.

Three Types of Meetings

There are three ways that meetings end. 1) Lose/Lose (Worst) In this case, no one ends up with anything useful. Often some (or all) of the participants suffer damage to their area of responsibility or their career. When everyone loses, people practice the worst possible behaviors. Some will act defensively to minimize their loses. Others will retaliate to punish those who are causing them to lose. Some will even engage in destructive activities designed to ruin the meeting out of resentment or frustration. No useful results are ever obtained from this type of meeting. 2) Win/Lose or Lose/Win (Bad) Here, someone wins.

Part 1 of 7 - The Secret to Overcoming Stagnation and Decline

Like a disease, it stalks the very heart of an organization. Most leaders are unaware of it and only a small number confront it. Yet, it can be isolated and cured if you're willing to look beyond the symptoms and act on your choice. This leadership challenge has a name: apathy. You recognize it by its symptoms: indecisiveness, lack of drive, lack of creativity, lack of focus, stagnation, burnout, imbalance, and the list goes on and on. Part 1 of this 7-part series focuses on why apathy exists in most organizations: 1. Apathy is a natural human instinct. Have you met anyone who likes change?

Part 2 of 7 - The Secret to Overcoming Stagnation and Decline

If it were a disease like glaucoma, it would explain why so many leaders are blind to its negative impact on their organizations. Because it occurs gradually, it would also clarify why so few confront it. Yet, a quick assessment can put you on the path to a cure, but only if you're willing to act on your choice. This leadership challenge has a name: apathy. You recognize it by its symptoms: indecisiveness, lack of drive, lack of creativity, lack of focus, stagnation, burnout, imbalance, and the list goes on and on. Part 2 of this 7-part series spotlights how to predict your future: 1.

Part 3 of 7 - The Secret to Overcoming Stagnation and Decline

One management challenge shares similarities with a common ailment, high blood pressure. Those afflicted with hypertension may fail to assess the seriousness of the problem. In a similar way, many leaders lack a clear consensus of what leads to stagnation and decline. Only a small percentage perceives the need to treat this leadership malady. Fortunately, a proven process can put you on the path to a cure, but only if you're willing to act on your choice. This leadership challenge has a name: apathy. You recognize it by its symptoms: indecisiveness, lack of drive, lack of creativity, lack of focus, stagnation, burnout, imbalance, and the list goes on and on.

Part 4 of 7 - The Secret to Overcoming Stagnation and Decline

As individuals explore ways to improve their personal health, they often find the quest more difficult than articles or websites would have them believe. Leaders frequently encounter similar challenges as they strive to release the potential hidden within each employee, discovering the resistance to change is much greater than anticipated. This leadership challenge has a name: apathy. You recognize it by its symptoms: indecisiveness, lack of drive, lack of creativity, lack of focus, stagnation, burnout, imbalance, and the list goes on and on. Part 4 of this 7-part series outlines the power of attraction: 1.

How The Packaging Industry Is Benefiting From Lean Six Sigma

However, associating Lean with just the big boys is certainly not the right thing to do - because the reality is that Lean is quite versatile and can be implemented by any business organization, irrespective of its size. For proof, you just need to have a look at some of the relatively smaller businesses such as a packaging firm that might have implemented Lean Six Sigma. For better understanding, we'll focus specifically on this particular industry and find out exactly how it is benefiting from Lean Six Sigma. Packaging Materials: A Major Contributor to Overall Costs In the packaging industry, packaging materials are like raw materials - and as such, contribute significantly to the overall packaging costs.

The Restaurant and Food Industry - Its Not Easy to Construct A Menu

Your menu that you will have in your restaurant is determined by the type of customer market that you will serve. Specifically with each type of market, the manager, owner of the restaurant or the food services manager must determine the best type of menu that is suitable and preferred for the needs and desires of their specific food customer market. That is what the area, or drive around catchments area needs. It's not a chicken or egg scenario. If the area served has ten pizza restaurants but few hamburger chains, even if you like pizza, why put up another pizza restaurant menu? In designing a given menu, that manager must not only consider information on the market itself - for example age, gender, economic and employment conditions, frequency of eating out etc, but also the skill levels of the employees in the area who will be hired, the availability of food products - both availability, quality and seasonal availabilities of given food ingredients.

Am I A Manager Or A Leader And Why Does It Matter To Me?

We all have leadership roles in life. Most of us have multiple roles where we need to set a direction and mobilize people towards it - both at work and outside. I am lucky enough to have met a few born leaders. Of the thousands of people I have met in my life, I can count those who were born great leaders on the fingers of one hand. For the rest of us leadership is something that we have to learn if we want to become good at it. Most of us are so occupied by the hurly burly of day to day existence that we rarely find time to look at the bigger picture to plan for more than the next few months, or to think about what lies behind the resistance that we so often seem to encounter in others and which frustrates us in achieving what we are trying to do.