Idea #5: Slick Sigma

Slick Sigma is a highly customised, event specific Six Sigma methodology.

Traditionally Six Sigma projects go through all aspects of DMAIC for mostly academic and documentation value and not necessarily for sustained positive changes. Most often Six Sigma projects result in immediate benefits but over time these benefits either plateau out or deteriorate.

Another problem with traditional Six Sigma is that it spends too much time on Define and Analyze phase and not as much on Implement and Control phases. This normally happens due to slacking initial enthusiasm and weak management attention to these phases.

Slick Sigma over comes these problems of the traditional method by making Six Sigma a practical day to day tool and does not confine it to academic value and limit it to certain groups of people only.

The key phrases of Slick Sigma are,

• Implement once, Sustain forever
• Significantly reduce total project time
• Measure all phases based on value and impact and not effort