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Innovation + Six Sigma = Disaster?

Started by qamanager · 10 maand geleden

Six Sigma … innovation … not compatible … blah, blah, blah
As I’ve wrote time and time again on this blog there is no reason why Six Sigma should stifle innovation. Obviously 3M would disagree: [3M Shelves Six Sigma in R&D]

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  • capablepeople

    1 jaar geleden

    Is it just me, or is context considered completely irrelevant? What I mean by that is "six sigma either works or it doesn't" What's that all about?

    I may be completely missing something but is there not a fundamental difference between the way we view and manage production and R&D? Innovation is generally an off-line activity. It has failure built into it, it even relies on failure to work properly so (DURR) defect reduction techniques in general may be at odds with at least the early (light bulb) stages of this process. Production on the other hand is quite different (you would hope) with the tolerance and consequence of variation and failure quite different, so maybe different techniques??? Do I need to go for a lie down???

    I know, I should be a consultant ...
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  • admin

    1 jaar geleden

    According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation#Failure_of_innovation]

    Common causes of failure within the innovation process in most organisations can be distilled into five types:

    1. Poor goal definition
    2. Poor alignment of actions to goals
    3. Poor participation in teams
    4. Poor monitoring of results
    5. Poor communication and access to information

    Guess what Six Sigma is good at? ... and I'm not even a consultant!
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