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Eldon Kao
Continuous Improvement Blog
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The principles of Lean Six Sigma can be applied in all different types of scenarios and industries, from automotive to healthcare. Recently, Lean Six Sigma was used in a collaborative effort from The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for Reducing Colorectal Surgical Site Infections (SSI).
Read MoreThis week, one of my favourite podcasts (This American Life) examined how Toyota showed GM how to make cars using TPS and the challenges in implementing the system.
One of the key lessons to be learned is that a system is not as simple as establishing a superficial set of rules. In order to be effective, a system needs to be deployed and acted on site wide from operators to management. There needs to be sufficient infrastructure to support roll out or else changes fall by the way side.
Some of these ideas around sustaining change I've discussed in a previous post: HERE.
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