Six Sigma obsolete?
In recent years, often by friends or clients and ask the question, "What is now said that Six Sigma is a bit out of date? Much less true with business, right?" Indeed, compared with the first large-scale use of Motorola's Six Sigma management tools to decline . Even after the improvements through Lean Thinking Lean Six Sigma, it is not very high in China's current usage.
But there is a saying "there is a good tool does not equal success, how to use good tools is one of the elements can be successful."
To successfully implement Six Sigma in the enterprise, the primary factor is the support of the top leadership and determination. From this level to talk about any tool or, mode of production both mean a mere formality. To recognize the leadership, all this can be self-evident. Therefore, the implementation of Six Sigma in the enterprise can go first and foremost, it depends on the degree of acceptance and support of senior leadership.
Six Sigma's core spirit of vitality. If you give a description of it, it is a kind of understanding of customer needs through close, strict use of facts, data and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to business process management, improvement and re-creation, in order to obtain, maintain and maximize business success comprehensive, flexible management systems. It is based on facts, data and statistical analysis methods are not just intuition, experience to act - now business management in big data analysis, it is the continuation of this thinking.
As the saying goes, a good knife should be used wisely. If in the process-oriented industries (such as steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc.) using Six Sigma, Process Industries inherent data system coupled with Six Sigma innate good set of tools (SIPOC, C & E, FMEA, DOE), the establishment of standards (technology for business standards, quality control system) provides an effective method.
From here we can see, the quality of people analyze what the problem should not point to cover, generalized. But when a dependent on outdated tool can have some advantages work for you. With the popularity of large data, the sensor, visual recognition system, many devices can be 100% of the monitoring data, no need to use a sampling method estimation section overall, the company will choose this time necessarily better methods and means to replace some of the traditional Tool of. But involves complex issues variation control, analysis abnormal angle of view, Six Sigma is still very useful. When then when the next time someone asks you, "Six Sigma obsolete yet," the question, do you have your own answer it?