| Six Sigma Training is but one type of continuous | | | | get people thinking differently. It allows them to expand |
| improvement program that you have to choose from | | | | their horizons, and look at new and better ways of |
| for your business. Given the other choices, it might not | | | | doing things for the business. Opening minds and |
| be the best solution, or it might not be effective on its | | | | teaching people to think differently will allow them to be |
| own. However, you have to decide this for yourself | | | | more accepting of and useful to the continuous |
| based on your specific situation. When you adopt Six | | | | improvement projects. If people are stuck in a mindset |
| Sigma Projects for your business, you can ensure that | | | | where there are no problems or the problems are not |
| change management and continuous improvement will | | | | able to be fixed, they're not going to try to come up |
| go hand-in-hand every single time. The key to success | | | | with new creative solutions. However, when you utilize |
| with continuous improvement projects is to have | | | | the tools of change management to get people |
| plenty of intelligence and data available about the | | | | thinking about what could be better, you're going to |
| current process so that improvements can be made | | | | have many more employees that are on board for |
| over time until it gets as good as it's going to. | | | | continuous improvement with Six Sigma Projects that |
| Striving for perfection in business might seem like a | | | | you might've thought. |
| hopeless task, but with the use of Six Sigma Projects, | | | | When it comes to continuous improvement through Six |
| you can easily come very close. The standard of Six | | | | Sigma Projects, change management is a necessary |
| Sigma Methodology is a defect ratio of 3.4 parts per | | | | tool to have. Like any continuous improvement project, |
| million. That means if you work for a company that | | | | you cannot get successful results if your employees |
| serves 1 million customers, only 3.4 of them should | | | | are not on board with the changes that are going on in |
| have some sort of defect or problem. 100% | | | | the company. Therefore, you need to utilize what you |
| satisfaction would be better, but is highly unrealistic. | | | | were trained in regards to change management to |
| Therefore, settling for 99.9999967% satisfaction with | | | | ensure that everyone understands what is going on, |
| the use of Six Sigma Projects should be more than | | | | and can at least accept that it's happening, even if |
| acceptable for your business. | | | | they might not agree with it. |
| Here's how it works. Change management helps to | | | | |