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SituationOrganizations make significant investments in training and resources to implement the Six Sigma methodology, but often struggle with managing the hundreds or even thousands of projects that are underway. Implementing Six Sigma presents some immediate challenges, including: | • | Determining how to assess the financial benefits of Six Sigma projects individually and collectively. | | • | Understanding how many projects are in progress and how well they are performing. | | • | Identifying the exact number of people, their skills, and their availability, to effectively allocate resources to new projects. | | • | Ensuring efficient processes for reporting and sharing best practices. |
SolutionSix Sigma solutions based on the Microsoft Office System help organizations ensure the success of their Six Sigma projects by providing effective tools to manage the key financial, resource, and information-sharing demands of a successful process improvement program. With a Six Sigma solution built using the Microsoft Office System: | • | Executives can gain a comprehensive view of all Six Sigma projects and can access financial data, key performance indicators, real-time analysis, and automated reports. | | • | Project managers can allocate resources, plan projects, assign roles, and gain insight into project details and status. | | • | Team members can access interactive, context-sensitive tools for creating and managing project plans, and they can make plans visible to all stakeholders for sharing, reporting, and analysis. |
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BenefitsUsing the Microsoft Office System to address Six Sigma process improvement programs, organizations can: | • | Analyze project impact with powerful portfolio management and analysis tools. | | • | View the financial results of Six Sigma projects and their alignment with key business performance metrics. | | • | Optimize resource use by assigning projects based on practitioner skills, experience, and availability. | | • | Use simple, real-time status reports to monitor timelines, costs, resource requirements, and projects status. | | • | View projects collectively to make decisions regarding resource allocation, prioritization, and investment approvals. | | • | Standardize and streamline processes through all DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, control) phases. | | • | Use collaboration and process reporting tools to view, enter, update, and analyze project information, and to create Six Sigma reports more quickly. | | • | Make better decisions using data from automatically created reports and tracking tools. |
Case StudySee how other organizations are using the Microsoft Office System for their Six Sigma solutions. | • | Black & Veatch
Learn how a global engineering and construction company created the infrastructure needed to support its Six Sigma continuous improvement methodology with the Microsoft Office System. |
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