John Gledhill seemingly had a good problem on his hands. As VP of Continuous Improvement at Quanex, a leading supplier of window and door components, he was to increase EBITDA for its recent acquisition: Woodcraft, a top supplier of doors and components to Original...
SBTI gets many calls about training Lean Sigma. The usual question that comes up is “what makes your training different from all the others”. Our training program is not simply a matter of teaching a skill, but rather in developing a competency on multiple...
“Comfortable is a word I would choose to describe an old sofa. Sadly, many people in business see it as a destination.” I decided I needed to improve my writing skills and joined a writing class. One of the exercises we were given was to write about...
A leader had just been picked to be the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. This leader’s decades long career had been spent entirely in this one company creating a unique emotional attachment to the company and its people that went far beyond the...
A company began deploying Six Sigma for all of the standard reasons: Six Sigma projects produce real results measured in real money to the bottom line. Six Sigma was used by other companies with startling results. Six Sigma tackles the most difficult problems and...
Two companies were mature practitioners of Six Sigma. One was a supplier to the other. It was written into the suppliers contract that the supplier was expected to work on Six Sigma projects with the customer. The customer’s expectation was that...
