In an increasingly competitive market, businesses are turning to new practices like Six Sigma, a structured methodology for accelerated process improvement, to help reduce costs and increase efficiency. Monte Carlo simulation can help Six Sigma practitioners understand the variation inherent in a process or product, and in turn, can be used to identify and test potential improvements. The benef...

Factors that affect the level of innovation in projects to develop new service offerings are analyzed based on field research results from 84 service innovation projects. Personal characteristics of developers, process and customer type, and an important characteristic of their organization (i.e., whether or not they possess a strong Lean Six Sigma or similar process improvement orientation) ar...

Six Sigma Methodology which was developed in 1980`s at Motorola (USA) has recently caught up with time in improving quality in large and as well as medium sized industries. Here, we are talking about the concept of six sigma & its implications in several fields. After going through the paper the reader will become fully aware of six sigma methodology as to how it optimizes the manufacturing wit...

Nowadays, Six Sigma has been widely adopted in a variety of industries in the world and it has become one of the most important subjects of debate in quality management. Six Sigma is a well-structured methodology that can help a company achieve expected goal through continuous project improvement. Some challenges, however, have emerged with the execution of the Six Sigma. For examples, how are ...

The need to increase the efficiency of health care systems is becoming an obligation, and one of area of improvement is the discharge process. The objective of this work is to minimize the patients discharge time (for insured patients) to be less than 50 minutes by using six sigma approach, this improvement will also: lead to an increase in customer satisfaction, increase the number of admissio...