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Six Sigma and Customers – a Hijacking in Progress

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Who is the customer?  That may seem like a stupid question but in many organizations it is not who you might think.  Many organizations that purport to use the VOC (voice of the customer) to drive their strategic and operational initiatives – this is particularly true of those organizations that ...

Where Have All the Customers Gone? Long Time Passing.

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

It is not uncommon for disciplines like Six Sigma, Lean, QFD, or TQM, to name a few, to forget what they are all about. These are quality disciplines or methodologies and quality has no meaning when it is divorced from the source of that meaning – the customer. Quality without ...

Six Sigma Marketing Overcomes Three Crucial Impediments to Organizational Growth

Monday, May 4th, 2009

After having worked with a large number of organizations, some big, some small, some smart and frankly, some dumber than a pile of gravel, I have cataloged three basic problems that organizations have to overcome to become superior value providers and market leaders.  There are others, but these three are ...

When is Six Sigma Marketing (SSM) NOT Six Sigma Marketing?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

The other day I got an interesting email from a Master Black Belt asking why not simply apply Six Sigma to marketing activities instead of creating an integration of Six Sigma and Marketing?  Good question. Six Sigma Marketing is a fact – based, disciplined approach to growing market share by providing ...

There are Three Things That Are Important in Project Selection: Market, Market, Market

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

I am a member of the Master Blackbelt Networking Group on Linkedin.  What a great group! One of our current discussions focuses on the source of LSS projects: What is your experience in identifying Lean Six Sigma projects? What methods, techniques, or tools do you use to identify them? Pro's ...

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