Comments on: President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, and me http://www.sixsigmatraining.org/news-blog/president-obama-rush-limbaugh-and-me.html?source=rss Lean Six Sigma Training and Information Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:45:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: gbarker http://www.sixsigmatraining.org/news-blog/president-obama-rush-limbaugh-and-me.html/comment-page-1#comment-10 gbarker Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:41:46 +0000 http://www.sixsigmatraining.org/uncategorized/president-obama-rush-limbaugh-and-me.html#comment-10 Activity without a plan is wasted energy. And that plan must focus on improving the process. The waste is caused by the system, not by those performing within the system. Working hader is not an answer. Working smarter is THE answer. Until individuals are provided with a better way money and time will be lost, worker satisfaction will be low and customers will remain dissatisfied. Six sigma, lean and quality improvemrnt focus on improving the process. These approaches provide the guidance for identifying those processes that will benefit most from change. As we learned many years ago in industry, throwing money at a problem is wasteful if all it does is perpetuate a flawed or inefficient process. Activity without a plan is wasted energy. And that plan must focus on improving the process. The waste is caused by the system, not by those performing within the system. Working hader is not an answer. Working smarter is THE answer. Until individuals are provided with a better way money and time will be lost, worker satisfaction will be low and customers will remain dissatisfied.

Six sigma, lean and quality improvemrnt focus on improving the process. These approaches provide the guidance for identifying those processes that will benefit most from change. As we learned many years ago in industry, throwing money at a problem is wasteful if all it does is perpetuate a flawed or inefficient process.

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