Mike Negami – my Lean Six Sigma friend – tweeted on the phone conversation that Toyota’s Kaizen can be applied to accounting system. His mutter made me remember a bad memory in past. The bad memory came from “Lean Accounting” class I taught in a training, and I referred to this book in the class. The feedback from students were no so good. I didn’t talked about my bad memory to Mike, but instead, I am going to write it in this book review.
Continue reading “Book Review: Practical Lean Accounting”Topic: Office 365 and Workflow Patterns
The topic of the previous blog post – ISO and Six Sigma – came from the conversation with Mike Negami. And this topic also came from the conversation with him because it was pretty hard to explain on the phone how I am using Office 365 in the Lean Six Sigma projects. So this post explains it with some pictures.
Continue reading “Topic: Office 365 and Workflow Patterns”Essay: ISO and Six Sigma
When I talked with my Lean Six Sigma friend Mike Negami on phone about the typical topic “Why is Lean Six Sigma unpopular in Japan”, he said that the Lean Six Sigma is getting more popular as the next step of quality improvement after the ISO 9001 certification.
Continue reading “Essay: ISO and Six Sigma”Case Study: File Management with Master and Differential
Sometimes I visit a Japanese website called “monodukuri.com” and answer to a question which a questioner asks on the website. I recently answered to a question regarding the QFD file management. So I summarized my answer here before I forget about it.
Continue reading “Case Study: File Management with Master and Differential”Essay: Table for Table Tennis and Lean Six Sigma
I bought a table for table tennis as a Christmas present for my son, since the winter in this northern state was too cold and too long to exercise outside. I hoped that playing table tennis in basement can be a good winter exercise to my son. So I bought the assembling type table made in China with just $125. Cheep!!
Continue reading “Essay: Table for Table Tennis and Lean Six Sigma”Essay: Tweak Lean Six Sigma Framework
I wrote in the previous post that the Lean Six Sigma framework is like a Rock-Paper-Scissors because we need to select a right problem-solving framework in three types depending on the type of the problem. The three types of problem-solving frameworks are Lean, Six Sigma, and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).
Continue reading “Essay: Tweak Lean Six Sigma Framework”Case Study: Initiate Certification Project
Many new projects for Lean Six Sigma and DFSS certification (Green Belt and Black Belt) start in October and November every year because the beginning of the fiscal year starts in October, and employees set up a new goal for the fiscal year. Obtaining the Lean Six Sigma or DFSS certification is one of their goal.
Continue reading “Case Study: Initiate Certification Project”Essay: Project Oriented
For company and people, the best approach for a big success is to accumulate many small successes. I concluded the same for a project after the successes of many Lean Six Sigma projects. A big project can be decomposed to many small projects. People can easily gain their experience and knowledge in Lean Six Sigma through the small projects, and accumulating the small successes becomes a big success of the company.
Continue reading “Essay: Project Oriented”Topic: SIPOC
Every time when a new Lean Six Sigma project starts, we create a SIPOC. I omit the details of the SIPOC because there are many resources on internet. Here I am going to write how I create the SIPOC in my typical project.
Continue reading “Topic: SIPOC”Essay: Training for Green Belt Certification
I am going to teach Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in the training for Green Belt certification in the next week. That will be two times of a week long of training. So I need to spend this week for the preparation of the training. I have to make it a success because I will spend totally three weeks in DFSS alone.
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