Six Sigma

“Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customer’s experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

► Six Sigma at many organizations simply means a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. Six Sigma is a disciplined, data a driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects (driving toward six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process – from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service.

► Many frameworks exist for implementing the Six Sigma methodology. Six Sigma Consultants all over the world have developed proprietary methodologies for implementing Six Sigma quality, based on the similar change management philosophies and applications of tools.

Six Sigma is important because it scores much higher over other quality improvement techniques such as TQM. Business organizations employing TQM just focus on achieving predetermined quality levels, which certainly improves efficiencies but does not allow the organization to realize the full potential. Six Sigma is different as the focus here is to make consistent quality improvements until business processes are fully optimized. As soon a certain quality level is achieved, the organization shifts gears and starts concentrating on achieving other levels of quality. The whole process continues until all the business processes are fully optimized.