Hi,

 

We all are aware of the importance of quality aspect of six sigma,why is that not every company is making six sigma a mandatory phenomena?People who lead an organisation/MNC/PSU's etc are well aware of the Six Sigma concept,particularly a scenario like this where all the companies are going for cost cutting,still management is not making six sigma mandatory concept.

 

Is this due to the cost involved ,or time consumed in implementation or modification required in methodology of six sigma?

Dear Sekhar,

 

This needs to be viewed from different perspective. Ignorance may not be the excuse. There may be two ways of learning one is learning by committing mistakes and getting experienced. Other one is smart way of learning whereby we learn by experience of the others, particularly when those who are ready to share the experience are master in their on field. So when some one like Azim Premji recommends Six Sigma, we must believe it because he is not promoting six sigma against some consideration as SRK or Big B are doing when they are promoting a product. So,where people are not aware of the potential benefits of six sigma no question of getting it implemented in these organizations.

 

Second is the case where as you are telling people leading the organization are aware of the six sigma concepts. Here the issues are different as we don't want to work in a structured manner, we believe in firefighting and then complain that who has time for these initiatives as if this is an extra job which will increase their work load. At times it so happens that we don't want to come out of our comfort zone and expect that improvements in our processes will be made available in a platter. This may not be possible. There is need of adaptation of initiatives like six sigma in true spirits with relentless efforts, sincere dedication, and disciplined approach. When you ask six months experienced individual to go far root cause analysis of some problem along with his peer group changes of value added input will be remote.

Hope you might have been convinced for the reasons why initiatives like this are not mandatory.

 

Regards.

K P Kapoor