It seems like Six Sigma and profit go hand-in-hand. The methodology was designed around manufacturing, after all. When you hear terms like Lean or Kanban, you probably think of names like Toyota and Motorola (and recently, Amazon). You picture warehouses and forklifts and shelves stacked with products. Or maybe you think of service industries, like […]
Akron Children’s Hospital provided Lean Six Sigma training and certification of two employees of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank. The costs of Six Sigma training, even when nonprofits understand the benefits, tend to rule it out as a process improvement option. At about $6,000 per person, it’s hard to justify when resources are already stretched. The […]
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Russell Maroni, a Lean Six Sigma leader at The Akron Children’s Hospital Center of Operations Excellence (COE), had the opportunity to spend much time in Haiti as a selfless volunteer. During his time there, he wrote his thoughts in a journal, which he has since published as a Kindle Book. When you buy and read […]
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