How do I explain what Lean Six Sigma is in simple terms?
Lean Six Sigma is a combination of two methodologies for minimising cost and maximising revenue from your core business processes.
Lean focuses on removing waste such as unnecessary inventory, excess work in progress, time spent waiting or queuing, and unnecessary movement and transport that uses up cycle time in a process.
Lean makes a process efficient in the way it delivers a product or service.
Six Sigma is a methodology for improving the quality of the output of a process through controlling variation in whatever it is you measure to determine quality of that output.
Six Sigma makes the product or service better.
Both of these methodologies work hand in hand and in combination can make a massive difference to your cost base and capacity to handle growth in your business.