Lean Six Sigma

I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to work for General Electric in the early 2000's. I have learned and put in practice both Six Sigma and Lean Methodologies. Initially all initiatives were using Six Sigma and that was very good to learn the tools, a little after top management started to sponsor Lean since they realize process maturity in general was very low and Lean Manufacturing toolset could bring improvements faster. So, my major advice is this. If a process has low maturity start with Lean, otherwise, if process maturity is high and the solutions to issues do not easily come from team brainstorming and knowledge, Six Sigma it is. Both could be combined using an End to End approach, do a Lean Action workout and major issues with variation tackle with Six Sigma.

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