What is Lean Six Sigma?

Lean Six Sigma is widely recognised as the world best practice methodology for business improvement. It aims to create perfection for every product, process and transaction within an organisation.

This disciplined, evidence-based approach aims to transform business performance by improving quality, reducing costs and creating new opportunities.

Companies equipped with Lean Six Sigma methodologies pursue excellence, consistency, customer responsiveness, speed and lower costs.

Lean Six Sigma has been effectively deployed to:

  • Enhance customer satisfaction
  • Achieve significant cost savings
  • Increase business-related productivity processes
  • Generate new markets
  • Generate better revenues and margins
  • Manage and deliver sustainable and measurable improvement in an organisation.

Six Sigma and Lean Sigma

Traditional Six Sigma has a focus on quality, refining the production process to eliminate unwanted variations or defects. Lean Manufacturing has a primary emphasis on process efficiency and speed.

Lean Six Sigma offers a blend of both business improvement methodologies and tools under one unified umbrella. This contemporary approach provides users with a very practical and powerful means of implementing business improvement across all aspects of their organisation.