Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. But pursuing incremental improvements while rivals reinvent the industry is like fiddling while Rome burns.” The benefits were significant. Fun leaders are about light.

Six Sigma 150

Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. Edwards Deming. I think I was the only one to raise my hand after he asked who had heard of him.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". billion distributor of industrial supplies prepared a timeline that showed all the methods and approaches they'd taken to process management over the previous 16 years.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14