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Does Six Sigma Apply to Healthcare?

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Tom Pyzdek is interviewed by Steven C. Wilson on Quality Conversations. Click to listen.

Tom Pyzdek radio interview

Steven C. Wilson interviews Tom Pyzdek

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Business Profits Radio Interview Podcast

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Developing a great lifestyle from your business depends on your ability to create automatic systems to get work done without your day-to-day attention.  This program gives you a step-by-step process for creating effective business systems that allow you to automate your business.  In this podcast Business Profits Radio host Robert Skrob asks Tom about Six Sigma. What is it? How is it useful to small businesses? Can it be used to improve sales, marketing, operations? This wide-ranging interview covers a tremendous variety of topics relating to business process excellence.

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Why Healthcare Quality Stinks in America

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Let’s be honest, America’s healthcare non-system has its problems. What are the root causes? Do any of the proposed solutions address them?

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American Kaizen

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Kaizen means “improvement” in Japanese. In Japan businesses view Kaizen as a way to engage everyone in improvement without spending much money. Improvements are usually small, and overall improvement is gradual. Americans have little patience for such an approach. This podcast describes the American version of Japan’s successful approach to improving products and processes.

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Tough Times and Lean Six Sigma

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Tom provides a little background on the current economic crisis, and some pointers to help you survive and prosper.

December 14th, 2008

January 4th, 2009

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10 Reasons to Do Six Sigma

Monday, April 6th, 2009

There are many reasons an organization might consider doing Six Sigma. For example, survival! This podcast presents a list of 10 other reasons.

December 14th, 2008

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Flavor of the Month

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Is Lean or Six Sigma a Flavor of the Month? What does this derisive label actually mean? Listen to this podcast and learn more!

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Monday, April 6th, 2009

October 12, 2008

We all want leadership support, right? But if you’re not careful to specify precisely what you want your leaders to do for you, you may find yourself worse off than before. 10:19.

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An Overview of Six Sigma Black Belt Training

Monday, April 6th, 2009

July 5, 2008

Tom presents the audio track of the first lesson of his online Black Belt training. His approach is unique because it presents the various tools in the context of how they are applied. If you are not yet a Six Sigma Black Belt, you will discover what is taught in Black Belt training. If you’re already a Black Belt, this podcast will help you understand when and how each tool is applied. You may want to listen to this podcast in several listenings. 22:49.

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Modeling with Regression

Monday, April 6th, 2009

July 1, 2008

One important Black Belt activity is to use the organization’s data warehouse to explore cause and effect relationships by building models using multiple linear regression. This isn’t as easy as just throwing all of the candidate Xs into a software package and crunching away. This podcast describes the technique Tom teaches in Six Sigma Black Belt training. 5:32.

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What is Six Sigma?

By Thomas Pyzdek, Author of The Six Sigma Handbook

For Motorola, the originator of Six Sigma, the answer to the question "Why Six Sigma?" was simple: survival. Motorola came to Six Sigma because it was being consistently beaten in the competitive marketplace by foreign firms that were able to produce higher quality products at a lower cost. When a Japanese firm took over a Motorola factory that manufactured Quasar television sets in the United States in the 1970s, they promptly set about making drastic changes in the way the factory operated. Under Japanese management, the factory was soon producing TV sets with 1/20th the number of defects they had produced under Motorola management. They did this using the same workforce, technology, and designs, making it clear that the problem was Motorola's management. Eventually, even Motorola's own executives had to admit "our quality stinks." Read More...