Six Sigma - Part 5: Looking at the Six Sigma Technology Tool Landscape
Credit: 2 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: Craig Gyci, Bruce Williams, and Stephen R. Covey
In Six Sigma - Part 5: Looking at the Six Sigma Technology Tool Landscape, you'll learn ...
- A comprehensive listing of the technology tools and information systems Six Sigma practitioners use
- Process characterization and Analysis tools
- Tools needed to manage local or enterprise-wide improvement
Overview
Six Sigma is the single most effective problem-solving methodology for improving business and organizational performance. There’s not a business, technical, or process challenge that Six Sigma can’t improve. The world’s top corporations have used it to increase their profits collectively by more than $100 billion over the past ten years. In certain corporations, indicating Six Sigma proficiency on your résumé is now a prerequisite to moving into a position in management.
Simply stated, Six Sigma is about applying a structured, scientific method to improve any aspect of a business, organization, process, or person. It’s about engaging in disciplined data collection and analysis to determine the best possible ways of meeting your customers’ needs while satisfying yours and minimizing wasted resources and maximizing profit in the process.
This course is Part 5 of a 5-part series based on the popular book Six Sigma for Dummies, 2nd Edition*. Despite its astounding effectiveness, few outside of the community of Six Sigma practitioners know what Six Sigma is all about. Six Sigma for Dummies provides a fast and easy way to understand and implement Six Sigma. In fact, Six Sigma For Dummies is the most straightforward, non-intimidating guide available.
This course, Part 5 of the series, presents a comprehensive listing of the technology tools and information systems Six Sigma practitioners use.
Module 1 covers process characterization tools, Module 2 deals with analysis tools, and Module 3 discusses the important technology tools needed to manage local or enterprise-wide improvement.
This course series provides more than an overview or survey of Six Sigma. It provides a comprehensive, actionable description of the methods and tools of Six Sigma. Yes, Six Sigma is rigorous, technical, and analytical. But this course series takes on this difficult subject and makes it understandable through examples, simple explanations, and visual aids.
This course is applicable to engineers of all disciplines working in any industry. Six Sigma is applicable everywhere — not only in large and complex corporations but also in the less complex and more intimate worlds of professional performance and personal accomplishment.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the platforms and protocols of technology tools
- Recognizing the capabilities and limitations of manual tools and techniques
- Examining various levels of computerized Six Sigma technology proportions
- Identifying the different types of technology you can apply to Six Sigma analysis
- Understanding how and when to apply analytics technology
- Listing some of the more popular statistics packages
- Understanding Six Sigma project management
- Discovering the different types of Six Sigma Management tools
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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