Learn all about the Benefits of Lean Six Sigma
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Six Sigma was first introduced in 1986 at Motorola and it wasn’t until the 2000’s that Lean Six Sigma came into play, marrying Toyota’s lean with Six Sigma, making it Lean and Six Sigma.
Today it is a tool widely used in organisations of all sizes from every industry – it is no longer just for manufacturing!
But what are the benefits of Lean and Six Sigma?
Let’s look at it from 3 perspectives, the company, the customer and the staff:
Benefits of Lean Six Sigma in Companies
- It looks at time and helps reduce wasted time and improve time management
- It improves the quality of products and service
- It solves problems and challenges
- It creates new processes, products and opportunities
- It reduces / saves costs
- It helps the business achieve its goals and targets
- It increases capacity by streamlining processes
- It makes the best use of resources you have
- It highlights and focuses on what your customers want
- It creates an innovative and committed workforce
- It encourages autonomy and accountability
- It fosters an engaged and loyal workforce and helps you in motivating others
How Customers Benefit From Lean Six Sigma
- It gives the customer what they want not what you think they want
- It streamlines processes making them less cumbersome for customers
- It gets things done quicker and ensures things are delivered on time
- It creates innovative products and systems ensuring your customers are using the latest technologies and trends
- It listens to them and measures what they value and seeks to improve it
- It improves the customer journey
How Staff Benefit
- It gives staff a professional qualification
- It gives them new tools they can use practically to improve their job and meet their targets
- It allows them a voice to suggest better ways of doing things
- It gives them critical thinking, problem solving, analytical and innovation tools and skills
- It encourages accountability and helps with fostering collaboration
- It improves leadership skills
- It also is proven that staff whose companies invest in them re lean six sigma are less likely to leave
So, as you can see there are huge benefits all round. And the best things… the return on investment! Depending on the belt level you will be guaranteed at least 10x return on what you have paid, plus immediate and long-term changes in the organisation.
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