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By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated April 30, 2017

Leadership: A Million Excuses for Failure of Continuous Improvement

We've all seen our share of continuous improvement initiatives that fail when leadership seemed to only be interested in supporting the effort with

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated April 25, 2017

Does Zero Defects Work in Practice? Zero defects is a concept that, for some reason, didn't gain as much popularity as some other aspects of

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated April 9, 2017

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.' W.

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 27, 2017

After World War II, quality and efficiency improvement approaches (what we refer to as Lean and Six Sigma today) made their way to Japan to help

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 26, 2017

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain This quote from Mark Twain is accurate; they are often used to lie to

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 12, 2017

We sent men to the moon in 1969 on a tiny fraction of the data that's in the average laptop. The amount of digital data in the universe is growing at

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 12, 2017

Is Your Business Ready to Start Undertaking Large Process Improvement Projects There are a number of effective and successful process improvement

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 11, 2017

Making Sure Your Workforce Is Ready for Change It goes without saying that there are some outstanding process improvement methodologies that could

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 9, 2017

The Roles of Different Belt Colors in Six Sigma Six Sigma is a complex process improvement methodology developed by Motorola. Due to its complexity,