What is the Future of Process Excellence?

The Future of Process Excellence:The service sector is now likely the most prolific user of the Lean toolkit, with Financial Services and Insurance and the public sector embracing Lean with greater relish now than at any other time. Are we in for an era of rapid process improvement? Why has Lean come to such prowess? The benefits of Lean deployment can be seen far quicker than Six Sigma and it is the breadth of tools combined with the quick and results that satisfies managers across the business from Finance to HR and operations. Lean has had its heyday on the shop-floor and is now equally, if not more loved by the service industries. Lean also offers what is for most people a more digestible form of process improvement - something they can easily get their heads round - less clouded in mystery than Six Sigma. Six Sigma however is by no means dead and buried and for those in larger corps with both time and data to spare the financial rewards of a successful Six Sigma project can be infinitely as if not more exciting to the board room heavyweights.Where will the process excellence community go next as the BPR experts look to push the boundaries of quality and change management and seek out ever bigger wins rewards? New proposition development and embracing the gamut of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking could hold the key…the future looks exciting and could hold real promise if better and better best practice is sought!Ripe4 are experts in delivery and execution of OE and Process Improvement and Six Sigma Recruitment assignments

Is the need for Six Sigma professionals dying out?

Is the need for Six Sigma professionals dying out? As a specialist time served (5+ years) Six Sigma recruiter I would certainly say over the last 12 – 24 months I have seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of companies looking to hire permanent & contracted Six Sigma resource. This is not to say that process improvement professionals are not still in demand! Lean Sigma has long been tagged on the market for logical progression for any strictly DMAIC black belts, it seems that view has filtered down to many companies not only with well established BPI programs but green field sites at the beginning of there CI journey. If we look to offers from management consultancies these days there are plenty or ‘FRESH’ sells on the market to be gobbled up for businesses hungry for process excellence. Its no surprise ‘Lean Sigma’ is the new ‘Six Sigma’. So we don’t see as many assignments for strictly DMAIC BB’s but BB’s with a good lean grounding do now seem to be much more valued.
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