Lean, Six Sigma & Tqm Project Success: Recent Case Studies and Benchmarks

quality management, project management, tenure in the quality role. Study participants also were interviewed to understand the organizational structure, assignment of responsibilities, lessons learned, and top influencers in maintaining a world-class quality system. Our research presented not only how our client stood with respect to others on the performance metrics, but also identified scores of detailed best practices in quality management.

This study was conducted on behalf of a global pharmaceutical company. Six highly regarded companies participated as benchmark partners. With our insights in hand, our client was well positioned to optimize its quality structure and organization, focus efforts on career development and retention of quality personnel, and fine-tune hiring and training efforts. In turn, our research has a direct bearing on product quality, expense management, and reputation enhancement.

Lean, Six Sigma & TQM Project Success: Recent Case Studies and Benchmarks

Improve a process and generate more savings or revenue by learning how over 30 companies applied lean, six sigma and total quality management (TQM) methods and the results of these efforts. So you want to improve a process and generate more savings or revenue? This Best Practices Benchmarking Report offers a place to start by showcasing how over 30 companies applied lean, six sigma and total quality management (TQM) methods and the results of these efforts. In addition, the report contains over 20 slides illustrating and explaining results from a recent survey of 84 companies on recent projects using lean, six sigma and other productivity approaches.

Trends in Lean, Six Sigma & Process Excellence--Meeting Proceedings

At the August 2005 Global Benchmarking Council conference on "Trends in Lean, Six Sigma & Process Excellence: From Early Adopters to Agile Innovators," members, speakers and invited guests discussed how to restore balance in their Six Sigma deployment systems. This included debate about "tools for tools sake," the cult of Six Sigma, Black Belt retention, and other issues critical to sustained success.

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