Many business owners may have heard of and implemented lean production principles - a method for eliminating waste - or Six Sigma, a data-driven approach to eliminating defects, but practitioners ...

A company experiencing organizational inefficiencies requested an overview of the Lean methodology, which culminated with a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) session to examine how work is processed and ...

In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published research on a new method of teaching, commonly called Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem. Wikipedia summarizes it: “The average student tutored ...

Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable Six Sigma quality lesson. The 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyze phase ...

In his famous “2 Sigma Problem” Benjamin Bloom found that students who receive one-on-one tutoring perform better than 98% of students who don’t. But paying for individual tutors for every student ...

In his 1984 paper, The Two Sigma Problem, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom demonstrated that building “more favorable conditions” into all of the environments in which children grow and learn ...

With all the fervor of the freshly converted, proponents of Six Sigma and lean manufacturing have frequently clashed over the alleged superiority of one ideology above the other, fighting over ...