Advantages of Six Sigma

Faced with serious issues on cost, productivity, quality and efficiency, a lot of companies have increasingly been adopting Six Sigma methodologies in order to bring improvement in their overall operations. The benefits of adopting Six Sigma are manifold.

1. Established methodology: Six Sigma has shaped the future of many companies who were facing losses with their operations. Instead of creating their own processed to bring about improvement, companies can utilize the already proven methodology of Six Sigma to bring about the desired change as far as the impact on Customers, shareholders and employees is concerned.
2. Driven by facts and data: Six Sigma is not just a shot in the air. It is a methodology that places utmost importance on data and facts that confirm the problem and identifies solutions. Therefore, instead of relying on one’s belief that may be different than the others, it is important to adopt the proven approach of Six Sigma.
3. Timeframe: Six Sigma does not allow temporary fixes. It calls for sustainable solutions overtime.  Therefore, the methodologies like DMAIC and DMADV have been specifically designed to ensure a systematic approach to problems.  DMAIC is used for bringing out improvement in existing processes and DMADV is used for creating new products and processes.
4. Extensive Training requirements: Employees have to go through extensive training to become Six Sigma Champs and Project Leaders. It calls for successful execution of several projects. There are different stages and types of certification. Some examples are Quick hit, SSMD (Six Sigma Management Discipline), Green Belt, Black Belt and finally Master Black Belt.
5. Project management: Knowledge of Six Sigma drives effective project executions leading to expertise in this area overtime. It enhances leadership skills, improves presentation skills and eventually leads to better decision making. There is complete alignment with the Company’s Vision, Strategy and Values.
6. Employee motivation and Engagement: Six Sigma entails evaluating troubles with practices, illuminating causes and devising solutions. When executed appropriately, Six Sigma engages the people who carry out those processes and who are impacted by any changes to those processes.
7. Scalability: In small associations integrating some of the high-level techniques such as dashboards and process monitoring is advantageous.
8. Customer Centric: Adoption of the Six Sigma methodologies leads to better customer focus by reducing the cost to provide goods and services, fewer customer complaints and building brand loyalty via focusing on their feedback and developing effective improvement projects that lead to fixing and reducing customer concerns.

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