This study investigates the relationships and impacts that shared leadership development has on two team dynamic conditions during a Six Sigma project, including internal team environment (cohesion) and external coaching style. The study seeks to understand mitigating factors that affect the...

Today, project managers are challenged with improving efficiency and overall productivity while working on certain tasks. They must be flexible and understand how to use tools and methods to improve results. While Lean Six Sigma (LSS) provides an overall data driven process to detect and improve...

This article introduces the basic idea of continuous improvement and its implications regarding logistics. Using a meta-analysis research methodology, the author analyzes the relationship and role that continuous improvement methods can play in the field of logistics. The study finds that the...

Increasing customer demand for quality products and services have virtuallyforced organisations to adopt quality in every aspect of their business enterprises.Due to dynamic technological, political and economic changes in the world ofbusiness, the science of management is volatile. Higher...

There can be little doubt that Six Sigma is far more than just another novelty concept; in fact, it can be considered as a proven quality philosophy and if applied correctly, ensures a competitive advantage. A rapidly increasing number of firms, from all industries and of all sizes, are now...

Three methodologies are associated with production optimisation, namely, Theory of Constraints(TOC), Lean and Six Sigma – and each boasts with a number of success stories. This dissertationaddresses the possibility of implementing all three these methodologies in a specific sequence atan...

The levels of competitiveness that globalization imposes on companies, requires them to use tools to continuously improve the levels of productivity and efficiency in their production processes. Within the classification of waste that affect productivity, highlights the time as one of the most...

Der Kontinuierliche Verbesserungsprozess (KVP) ist ein Führungsinstrument, das möglichst alle Mitarbeiter eines Unternehmens dazu befähigen und bewegen möchte, in regelmäßigen Gruppensitzungen Verbesserungen im alltäglichen Arbeitsprozess zu erarbeiten.