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Many consider Six Sigma as being only for large corporations. Big companies, like GM, Ford, Motorola, etc, have rolled out Six Sigma efforts and achieved outstanding results. However, it is incorrect and in many situations, Six Sigma can achieve better and rapid results in case of small businesses.
Big companies meet the requirements of Six Sigma easily. But such is not the case with all small businesses. Their approach to Six Sigma must be modified to reap better results.
Certainly, there are factors that can be disadvantageous for implementing Six Sigma in a small business rather than a large business, such as lack of resources and expertise in change initiatives. However, there are also characteristics inherent in small businesses that can speed up the effective implementation of Six Sigma more than in large businesses, such as flexible process flows, a shorter decision-making chain, and higher visibility of senior management.
At Infomacia we understand that there are many aspects to business, and only some of them should involve Six Sigma. Business owners should not abandon their instincts, intuition, taste, feel for the market, competitive spirit, empathy with customers and employees, common sense or good judgment.
Because of the size of a small business, the financial results and cultural transformation that stem from Six Sigma will propagate more quickly through a smaller organization. Infomacia experts can help your organization to focus on Six Sigma tools at virtually any properly scoped project, which will drive savings to your bottom line and achieve breakthrough change in your organization.
Three Rquirements to Implement Six Sigma: To achieve the best results of Six Sigma, we, at Infomacia, believe that a business that wants to change must also meet three requirements:
Tolerance for variation and the failures that result. Change requires variation; in fact, it is defined by it.
"Slack," i.e., spare resources that can be diverted to change-related activities for implementing Six Sigma processes.
Redundancy built into its systems, so that the areas being changed can still provide essential stakeholder services.
Typically, once companies eliminate steps that don't have value, or the noise, from a process using Lean methodologies, they discover the need for even more advanced methods of uncovering the root cause of abnormalities or variation. And they look to Six Sigma. Or they discover that every problem is not a Six Sigma problem, and that Lean is necessary to identify and eliminate the non-value aspects of organizational activities and the waste inherent in their business processes. So contact Infomacia Six Sigma Expert to eliminate Waste, Decrease Lead Times, Increase Velocity, Reduce Variation, Achieve Near-Perfect Quality, and Lower Cost to your business processes.
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