Process improvement

Lean Six Sigma, or LSS, is the combination of two separate management techniques: Lean and Six Sigma. Lean management focuses on disregarding waste, variation, and non-value adding tasks. This technique is meant to optimize improvement and customer focus through material and information flow. ¬¬¬¬ Six Sigma is the “second” part to LSS and can only be applied after a Lean commitment has been implemented. Six Sigma is “uniquely driven by a close understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of…

skills, I should improve my logical thinking and language proficiency skills. Moreover, when I think back to my final speech, I aware that I should pay attention to my body movement and time allocation during the process of a presentation. The things I have learned about the speech making process are how to make a complete outline and how to prepare a speech well. I have learned how to set general/specific purpose, and an attractive attention getter, reasonable credibility, and a…

Recently, it was decided that all state government employees needed to complete Lean Six Sigma White Belt training. Essentially, this training is designed to combine Lean’s methods for reducing waste and maximizing flow in processes and Six Sigma’s methods for using measurement tools to decrease the variations that lead to inefficiency in processes. These concepts can be incredibly useful for government agencies, because government agencies are often extremely inefficient and behind the times…

irritated for having to go through the long writing process. I laugh to myself now because I chose this as my research topic. I chose this topic because I think writing is such a crucial curriculum standard for all students to feel comfortable with. I remember in middle school working on the writing process all the way up to even high school. Now I am happy that I had teachers who believed in using the writing process. I feel the writing process has made an impact on my writing as well. This is…

a service improvement practice (SIP) used in this paper is a method, process, and way-of-doing-things whose purpose is to improve customer service processes by increasing service delivery performance and conformance quality and/or reducing their cost.” (Dickson). For example, constantly gathering and analyzing information about customer complaints and suggested service improvements are a valuable SIP because it focuses service process improvement efforts on customer-desired improvements.…

managing the whole process to produce products or services carefully. Using strategic operations management in today’s companies along with operations management makes business operations efficient in terms of utilizing resources has become as necessary and effective in terms of gathering customers’ needs. Strategic operations management often includes considerable measurement and analysis of internal and external factors based on strategy formulation and proper implementation process of a…

design in the interest of achieving greater performance improvements from ergonomic interventions, including gains in safety and quality” (1999). General Work Design One key aspect of macroergonomics is organization design, which analyzes workflow and addresses interactions of components within the work system (Wickens et al, 2004). If the analysis indicates that any area is…

and mechanics by correcting subject-verb agreement and vague pronoun reference errors. This improvement can be accredited to the beneficial exercise worksheets that reinforce the notes given in class. I now realize why I would need to clarify the “it” in this sentence from my diagnostic essay: “I habitually am indecisive about how I am going to organize it and develop upon my thesis.” Due to these improvements, I am able to cultivate a clear and insightful thesis statement while containing…

The inquiry paper “Smokin”, by John Seilman was a very interesting inquiry. It was a good example of a well done experiment write up. Even though the inquiry and write up was good, there is a way that the paper could have been great. John Seilman did somethings well on his paper, the student could have improved in three main areas of a usual inquiry write up, and after reading this a lot of more comments and curiosity took place. The paper had many great points. The topic was interesting. The…

I think my writing process is procedural. Before writing, I will search online to view some materials related to my topic first. This can help me to expand my ideas. If I do not have any idea, I will communicate with others, such as friends, teachers and parents. Usually they will give me good suggestions. And then I start writing by making a TODO list. On the list, there will be the outline of my article and some questions I need to answer. I will also list some details I need to mention in my…