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Get Your Lean Six Sigma

Program Back on Strategic Results

Has it been a while since your

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) program

produced benefits that shareholders

noticed? If that’s true for you,

you’re not alone. In a recent suvey,

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“Looking beyond Japan, iconic six

sigma companies in the United
States, such as Motorola and GE,

have struggled in recent years to

be innovation leaders. 3M, which

invested heavily in continuous

improvement, had to loosen its sigma

methodology in order to increase the

flow of innovation. As innovation

thinker Vijay Govindarajan says, “The

more you hardwire a company on total

quality management, [the more] it is

going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

The mindset that is needed, the

capabilities that are needed, the metrics

that are needed, the whole culture that

is needed for discontinuous innovation,

are fundamentally different.”

- It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement,
Harvard Business Review, Ron Ashkenas,
May 8, 2012

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