Institutional Culture Shift with Six Sigma
Posted: Sunday, June 21, 2009
by Julie Newman
For the success of Six Sigma, culture is an important factor. The institutional cultures must sometimes be changes in order to have a successful placement of Six Sigma within their company.
The changed culture will not just include Six Sigma professionals such as Black Belts, Green Belts, and Quality Leaders, but everyone else involved in the institution. Once the problem in a process has been identified and addressed, the process will be evaluated and improved upon.
Six Sigma is one of the best available tools for quality management. To explain how this system works lets use a teacher/parent scenario. The teachers will be the employees and the parents the customers. Parents pay for a child's educational and expect that the child will receive an education with measurable results. The teachers can expect can expect a positive change in student performance when the teaching techniques are improved upon. It is important to remember that if you want your acquired profits to remain constant your change so stay in effect for a length of time.
So now you ask yourself, how do you implement the Six Sigma process.
Before Six Sigma can be implemented within a system, the problem must first be identified. Once recognized, a project can be defined in order to decrease the impact of the problem or eliminate the problem altogether.
Six Sigma methodology is known as DMAIC, which stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control. Projects are lead by the Green Belt, with the assistance from Black Belts.
Six Sigma requires the enthusiastic participation of all individuals at all levels, starting at the senior level. Innovation and creativity are encouraged through the basic Six Sigma principles, and a module developed to establish good communication between teachers and students.
Methods are prepared wherein the input of everyone is attained and evaluated. Within an educational setting, teachers build data by conducting studies.
The Six Sigma application, within an educational setting allows everyone to see positive changes in teaching methods, along with positive results. Quality of learning will increase and the desired goals will also be reached, with proper education.
Six Sigma Lean is a 6 sigma process that assits to improve quality and also remove waste. For more information on this process take a look at www.sixsigmaonline.org.
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