Jeff Foster, Director of Process Improvement at San Diego Zoo Global first learned about Six Sigma while working in operations at Starwood in the hotel industry. He made a career change, and went over to the San Diego Zoo and started working in their wildlife section, where they’re trying to save animal species. He shares […]
The past few years have been challenging economically for the County of Kern. Due to the fall in the price of oil, the county has endured budget cuts and hiring freezes, and this past year, public safety was cut to balance the budget. Anything that can save the county money and allow us to operate […]
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The City of El Paso is proud to announce the Lean Six Sigma program has saved El Paso taxpayers another $252,000 by reevaluating three El Paso Fire Department programs. The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt team reviewed personal protective equipment inventory management, 911 communications recruit training time, and firefighter on the job injuries and lost […]
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Recruitment and selection are processes rife with potential for bias, both from the side of the recruiter and from the side of the applicant. The city of Chattanooga (Tennessee) worked with the Police Department and behavioral insight experts to attract more diverse applicants to the police force. By sending postcards to households across the city, […]
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Maryam Zahabi, an industrial engineer at North Carolina State University, uses JMP® to analyze designed experiments that gauge the effects of on-road signage and in-vehicle technologies on driver attention allocation among both civilian drivers and police officers. Visual stimuli both from inside and outside a vehicle are responsible for hundreds of distracted driving deaths each year. […]
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When Jorge Perez noticed project management efforts were often haphazard and unfocused at the YMCA of the USA, he decided to complete a Green Belt-level training course, and wanted to introduce Six Sigma to the youth development department. The goal was to introduce a new method for managing and tracking projects into the organization. He […]
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The Beijing Aquarium is home to a pod of rare beluga whales. High turbidity in the beluga tanks– a quality linked to animal activity – means low visibility. And low visibility means aquarium visitors won’t be able to see the belugas. Moreover, maintaining constant high-visibility conditions is expensive and requires high energy consumption. A series […]
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Andrew Parris with World Vision Institute talks about how he helps implement Lean Six Sigma in East Africa. He helped train 56 Lean Six Sigma Green Belts and 11 Black Belts, trained 450 people in Process Excellence Energizer training, saved $1.5 million in procurement costs. Other projects include reducing recruitment time from 130 to 41 […]
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The School of Public Health at Kyoto University has fully adopted JMP® software for lectures and laboratory courses in its Department of Biostatistics. The school aims to train future public health practitioners with varying educational backgrounds in the statistical concepts they will need to execute a research plan in the field. Students use JMP® Pro software in […]
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The University of Texas Pan American (UTPA) encourages students to “Prepare, Discover, Transform.” As the University has become highly successful, it now struggled to support the demands of the increased volume of a growing regional University. A 3-day Value Stream Mapping event was held to focus on the procurement process. With this detailed view of […]
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