Released on = January 5, 2006, 8:39 am

Press Release Author = Six Sigma Program

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = Business leaders learn the basics of the Six Sigma approach
thanks to the Internet. True commitment needed to succeed.

Press Release Body =
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
09/01/2006


Six Sigma Approach Useless Without Leadership Commitment

Business leaders learn the basics of the Six Sigma approach thanks to the Internet.
True commitment needed to succeed.

MICHIGAN, The Six Sigma approach identifies and eliminates defects with a
structured, data-driven, problem-solving method of using rigorous data-gathering and
statistical analysis. A new website, "Six Sigma Program" (
http://www.sixsigmaprogram.org ) helps business leaders and decision makers learn
about this approach to optimize processes. But as Helen Spisak, owner of the site
says "Achieving Six Sigma is not easy it needs serious commitment in the form of
time, effort, and resources. For a company to be successful, such commitment must
come first from the top executive leadership of the organization and must be
practiced by everyone."
The main goal of the Six Sigma approach is the awareness of a measurement-based
strategy that focuses on process improvement and variation reduction through the
application of Six Sigma improvement projects. This is accomplished through the use
of DMAIC. The Six Sigma DMAIC process (define, measure, analyze, improve, control)
is an improvement system for existing processes falling below specification and
looking for incremental improvement. This Six Sigma process is executed by Six Sigma
Green Belts and Six Sigma Black Belts, and are overseen by Six Sigma Master Black
Belts.
The numerical depiction of Six Sigma approach describes how a process is performing.
Winning and keeping customers requires near perfect performance. The bottom line is
that companies operating at three or four Sigma spend up to 25% of their revenues
fixing defects. This is known as the \"cost of poor quality\". To achieve Six Sigma
approach, a process must not produce more than 3.4 defects per million
opportunities. A Six Sigma defect is defined as anything outside of customer
qualifications. Six Sigma approach differs from traditional quality improvement
programs in its focus on input variables. While traditional process improvement
methods depend upon measuring outputs and establishing control plans to shield
customers from organizational defects, a Six Sigma program demands that problems be
addressed at the input root cause level, thereby eliminating the need for
unnecessary inspection and rework processes. There are three key elements that go
along with the idea of six sigma approach
"Enhanced performance does not and will not happen automatically. High-caliber
training is required. Hard work and discipline has to be used, and people at all
levels have to change the way they go about doing their jobs." Says Spisak. In
short, new ways of thinking, communicating, and operating must pervade the entire
organization. You also need a methodology.
Naturally, companies that have joined a Six Sigma approach for their improvement
process are looking to do more than diversify skills. With this , they initiate a
company-wide culture shift geared toward breakthrough change and the pursuit of
perfection. This approach is geared towards a more comprehensive deployment that
will yield breakthrough improvements and bottom line profitability.


For More Information Contact:

Helen Spisak
hel_spisak@hotmail.com
http://sixsigmaprogram.org/sitemap.html



Web Site = http://sixsigmaprogram.org/sitemap.html

Contact Details = Helen Spisak