| Six Sigma Projects generally are designed to improve | | | | with everyone in the company in these situations. |
| one process or another. However, improving that one | | | | Creating these changes and doing process |
| process can usually have a larger effect on the | | | | improvements without the approval and understanding |
| company and play a role in the jobs of many other | | | | of everyone in the company could cause failure at |
| employees. When one process is more efficient, it will | | | | some point, because someone will drop the ball. When |
| create a domino effect of sorts, which will make | | | | you improve a process, you need to have everyone |
| process improvement affect many areas of the | | | | on board so that the continuous improvement can |
| business that you might not have thought about | | | | succeed and the efficiency can be passed on through |
| before. Process improvement is a good thing, but you | | | | the company. Six Sigma Projects are never easy to |
| do need to make sure that all the employees are | | | | get started, and the most common roadblock is the |
| aware of what is going on so that they can accept | | | | lack of acceptance to changes. However, if you use |
| the changes and aren't caught off guard when things | | | | change management as it is taught in Six Sigma |
| start working differently. | | | | Training, you will be more successful in your efforts. |
| The process improvement first affects the person | | | | Process improvements affect everyone in a business. |
| who is directly in charge of taking care of that | | | | When a business is running more efficiently and |
| particular process. This is the most obvious way that | | | | productively, everyone is going to notice. Even if only |
| process improvements affect your company. After | | | | one small process was improved, and it relates to only |
| that, the process will begin affecting everyone else in a | | | | 5 of the 250 jobs that you have at your company, |
| slow progression because it has made the business | | | | everyone will still feel the effect at some time. By |
| more efficient and added to the bottom line. This will | | | | allowing change to happen, you are making your |
| affect all employees all the way up to management, | | | | company a better place. By working with people to |
| because a more effective and profitable business can | | | | convince them that changes are for the best, you will |
| change the workplace for everyone involved. | | | | be sure that your Six Sigma Projects will succeed |
| It is critical that Six Sigma Training is utilized to go | | | | every time, no matter who the process improvements |
| through the proper change management practices | | | | affect. |