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Six Sigma for Small and Medium Sized Businesses & Large Businesses All companies can save money by reducing the causes of defects in products, deficiencies in services and processes, and by improving sales through greater customer satisfaction. However, a small company (less than 100...

The Road Ahead With Indian IT and ITeS companies concentrating their energies to tap global markets and compete with MNCs most of them have adopted some quality standard or the other. But how far they go about adopting Six Sigma, which is a highly complex standard, is yet to be seen. So...

Challenges faced while adopting Six Sigma Customising Six Sigma: Customising Six Sigma to an organisation’s requirements is a big challenge. The whole mental attitude of the organisation has to change in order to adopt Six Sigma and realise its benefits. Vikas Bhalla, vice president, Quality...

Integrating Six Sigma practices with other standards Indian IT and ITeS companies adopting Six Sigma already have a quality standard like a CMM Level 5 certification or an ISO certification. It is easier to integrate Six Sigma practices when there are also practices like CMM or ISO running in a...

Continuous process of improvement Indian IT and ITeS companies have adopted Six Sigma across their organisations and have tried to incorporate most of the processes running in their set-ups. As Six Sigma aims at continuous improvement it has resulted in changing the complete mindset of...

Increased customer satisfaction Several Indian IT and ITeS companies have adopted Six Sigma in order to gain customer acceptability and improve client satisfaction. It has helped them create and deliver value and demonstrate direct savings to their customers. Some IT companies like TCS and...

More result-oriented Many Indian IT and ITeS players believe that Six Sigma is more result-oriented than other quality and improvement standards and therefore it helps them streamline their processes, bringing about all-round organisational improvement. As Six Sigma practices aim at...

Indian IT buys into Six Sigma India’s IT industry is respected globally for its focus on quality. While SEI-CMM and other ISO standards are quite common, Six Sigma is now becoming popular amongst Indian IT and ITeS companies. Some have already started reaping the benefits of adopting Six...

In Manufacturing CROMPTON GREAVES Overview: At Crompton Greaves there is always a passion for quality. A quality trust mark has emerged as Crompton's biggest brand ambassador. In fact, this is reflected through quality certifications for its products and services. Further, the commitment to...

Critical Success Factors Senior Leadership: • Mobilize for change • Provide Strategic vision and purpose • Be actively involved at every stage Ownership: • Incentives for change • Ensure process user participate in redesign and accept • need for change (forcing factor) • Publicly...

Implementation of Six Sigma has also resulted in Integrated Business Process Improvement in Wipro: Which involves improvement of process efficiencies followed by process automation. This approach has benefited from a robust change management program. Today, Wipro applies best in class tools...

APPLICATION OF SIX SIGMA IN INDUSTRIES A] In Services: WIPRO – INFOTECH An Overview Reengineering business processes and developing new ones is the need of the hour to ensure business reorientation. Wipro has helped make the transition to stability and standardization, smooth and...

Is This a Six Sigma, Lean, or Kaizen Project? This is a familiar question that is often addressed by organizations. In fact, it's the wrong question. These concepts are nothing more than tools in your management toolbox. You don't fix a watch with a hammer, and you get the same results when you...

How else is Six Sigma different? Six Sigma is: * Fact based and data driven. * Results-oriented, providing quantifiable and measurable bottom-line results * A leader-sponsored top-down approach * Linked to strategy * Thinking about customer requirements * Applicable to all business...

SIX SIGMA V/S TQM Six Sigma is not just a new term for Total Quality Management (TQM). They have many similarities and are compatible in many business environments. TQM has brought great improvements and value to many companies. Six Sigma can do more. TQM is the development, deployment, and...

Small and medium size companies or business units, who actively enter the Six Sigma community, have additional limitations when deploying Six Sigma methodology: • Personnel are limited and often working overtime. • It is often difficult (if not impossible) to find suitable candidates for...

BOTTLENECKS OF SIX SIGMA 1. Delays in project execution: There are often significant delays in Six Sigma projects and intermediate deliveries. One of the most frequent reasons is decision-making errors that lead to rework and time-consuming data collection activities. Other reasons are listed...

Listing out all these benefits clearly shows the potential impact that the six sigma process can have on any organization. The question is that how does one achieve six sigma. I will throw some light on that part of it in the application section of this project from my understanding on how to...

Information Technology Benefits of Six Sigma Projects Decreases maintenance/support costs. Enables service level agreement (SLA) obligations. Improves application/system performance. Improves application/system utilization rate. Increases efficiency of support activities. Increases...

Operational Benefits of Six Sigma Projects Decreases employee work loads for undesirable work. Eliminates non-value added activities. Improves employee morale / team spirit. Improves internal communication between departments and groups. Improves use of workspace. Increases employee...