{"id":1106,"date":"2020-10-16T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syram.eu\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2021-02-02T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:14:52","slug":"pourquoi-le-six-sigma-est-actuellement-sur-une-pente-descendante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syram.eu\/en\/why-the-six-sigma-is-now-on-a-descent-slope\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Six Sigma currently on a downward slope?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've never been a big fan of Six Sigma. As business process improvement and management approaches evolve; they've always had glaring shortcomings. <\/span><\/p>\n I'm convinced that Six Sigma should only be used in product manufacturing; where the idea of reducing defects to one standard deviation in six really makes sense.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Well, there really isn't an alternative to suit all processes and circumstances. What companies really need is a combination of tools and approaches. <\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, the best companies in process management already have such a combination. <\/span><\/p>\n So you hear about Lean Six Sigma, which is a combination of some of the Lean approaches found in the Toyota production system and Six Sigma; but in reality; the mix should be even broader. <\/span><\/p>\n Johnson & Johnson, for example, in its \"Process Excellence\" program, also adds a component involving radical change. Even Motorola, where Six Sigma was born, incorporates a method for creating revolutionary process improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n Companies should also integrate certain techniques to combine process change with the information systems they install. <\/span><\/p>\n Business process re-engineering is the only process improvement approach that really had this objective in any substantial way; but it was flawed in other respects, and is not a stand-alone method of choice either. <\/span><\/p>\n At Air Products and Chemicals, which has had one of the most successful process change programs in recent years; the company used a hybrid approach to process change that closely matched the SAP system it was implementing at the time. Shell has a major effort underway to implement a common version of SAP and improve <\/span>processes at the same time. <\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, it's not easy to change both things at once; but it's ridiculous to change the processes and ignore the IT department.<\/span><\/p>\n When companies start to get excited about process improvement again, they shouldn't focus on just one method of doing it. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t We frequently publish on social networks (Linkedin<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and Medium<\/a>) our innovations and the new functionalities of our industrial management solutions.<\/p>\n We would be happy to share with you the latest trends in industrial management 4.0 through high quality content that you can share.<\/p>\n
So what's the best alternative to Six Sigma for process improvement? <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
A hybrid and combined approach is really the only approach that makes sense.\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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