International Journal of Lean Six Sigma: Volume 6 Issue 2

Improving financial services data quality – a financial company practice

Chuan Shi, Rajesh Jugulum, Harold Ian Joyce, Jagmet Singh, Bob Granese, Raji Ramachandran, Donald Gray, Christopher H Heien, John R. Talburt

This paper aims to propose a funnel methodology that selects business data elements for data quality improvement practices at a financial company. Data quality is crucial in…

Operating room adjusted utilization study

Gabriele Arcidiacono, Jihan Wang, Kai Yang

– This paper aims to identify key factors that impact operating room (OR) utilization and evaluate different scenarios on OR performance.

Project barriers to Green Belts through critical success factors

Chad Laux, Mary Johnson, Paul Cada

The purpose of this paper is to utilize critical success factors (CSF) and identify items Green Belt (GB) practitioners note as barriers to completion of Six Sigma (SS) projects…

18 comparative aspects between Lean and Six Sigma: Complementarity and implications

Diego Pacheco, Isaac Pergher, Guilherme Luís Roehe Vaccaro, Carlos Fernando Jung, Carla ten Caten

This paper aims to presents a conceptual comparative analysis of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, highlighting 18 critical aspects between such approaches and their respective…

LSS, a problem solving skill for graduates and SMEs: Case study of investigation in a UK business school curriculum

Alireza Shokri, Farhad Nabhani

This paper aims to investigate the feasibility of a systematic Lean Six Sigma (LSS) education through the curriculum of business schools to respond to the existing gap between the…