All businesses are something of a gamble. You can work hard and chase all the right opportunities, but obstacles are part of the nature of life. The successful understand and anticipate problems by implementing the right business tools and strategies that will help them overcome hiccups and stay the course for long-term business success. One such important strategy all business owners and high management employees should know and understand is Six Sigma.

The Basics of Six Sigma

Six Sigma is a problem-solving methodology that helps businesses of every type to continually improve their business process to drive down costs and drive up profits. The key philosophy focuses on how to best optimize manufacturing operations by using statistical tools to enhance a business's output efficiency and quality. The Six Sigma methodology does this by showing users how to best track data, set optimistic objectives, and analyze results to reduce defects and inefficiencies within business operations.

Six Sigma is not a specific standard or type of certification (although certification is available to reflect an individual's understanding of the methodology). What Six Sigma is, is a methodology by which business leaders can know where their company stands, determine where they can be, and find the process to close the bridge between the two. For example, few tangible and attainable targets that Six Sigma projects can achieve include:

• Increase profits
• Reduce operational costs
• Minimize process cycle times
• Reduce pollution
• Maximize customer satisfaction

How Sigma Six Can Help Your Business

The aforementioned list of projects is a brief overview of the type of achievements possible when you apply Six Sigma methodology, but here's a more specific listing of Six Sigma's key business benefits:

• Improve customer loyalty. Dissatisfaction with the product or purchasing experience and poor employee attitude are two primary reasons consumers give for not returning to a business. This Six Sigma process helps business reduce these dropped customers and improve customer loyalty by running business experiences through a statistical analysis and pinpointing those areas in need of improvement.
• Reduce costs. Not only can Six Sigma processes help businesses increase profits, but they can also help significantly reduce waste and lower operational costs. In 2007, the US Army implemented the Lean Six Sigma methodology and reported an unanticipated $2 billion in savings over the course of the year as the organization learned how to be more efficient in scheduling, recycling, and task management.
• Expand innovation. This is an outstanding benefit that is rarely touched upon by other, similar methodologies. With Six Sigma, employees are encouraged and rewarded for increased teamwork and collaboration within their organization. As such, an overwhelming amount of businesses that implemented the methodology saw an increase in the innovation and new ideas put forth by their employees.

Getting Businesses and their Employees Trained in Six Sigma

Remember, there is no official governing body for regulating or offering Lean Six Sigma Training or Certification. Technically, one could pick up the basics online or at the library and implement them after fulfilling their own amount of research. However, learning something and learning how to do it correct by experts in the industry provide two very different outcomes.

Business leaders and employees who undergo a professional training program for the multiple levels of Six Sigma methodologies will learn from industry experts who have real-world experience in applying this methodology. Quality courses showcase content that is tailored to be more practical rather than conception to enable attending students to better understand how to apply Six Sigma in the specifics of their profession rather than just learn the 'basic concepts and tools.'

Take the Step Towards Better Business Practices by Enrolling in a Lean Six Sigma Course

Are you ready to get started? To take your business forward and enhance the capabilities of your top employees? Then now is the time to enroll in Infotec's Introduction to Lean Six Sigma course.

This comprehensive course is designed to provide students with a robust understanding of the core concepts of Six Sigma. They'll learn the five phases of Lean Six Sigma DMAIC -- the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control phases -- and how to implement those phases in their work to improve the operational efficiency in any business.

Contact the Infotec team today to learn more about this course and how you can sign up yourself and your employees up for the next available options.

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