Summary: <br> Welcome to the Just-In-Time Cafe Podcast! In this episode, we’ll share how each methodology is different and which methodology is better: Lean or Six Sigma.<br> Our entire team at GoLeanSixSigma.com is thrilled to announce our new podcast: The <a href="https://goleansixsigma.com/category/podcasts/">Just-In-Time Cafe</a>! Join our hosts and experts, Tracy O’Rourke and Elisabeth Swan, as they chat with you and share the latest Lean Six Sigma news, application tips, how-tos, interviews with thought leaders and success stories from professionals like you! Enjoy your coffee!<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Also Listen On:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlHnwvobNRY&feature=youtu.be"></a><br> <br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/just-in-time-cafe/id1082077188?mt=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/goleansixsigmacom/justintime-cafe?refid=stpr" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Timeline<br> <br> * 00:00 Podcast Introduction<br> * 00:30 Lean or Six Sigma? Which is best?<br> * 01:30 Where do these methods come from? But first, coffee…<br> * 2:00 Lean and Six Sigma background – it goes back as far as 450 BC!<br> * 2:30 Henry Ford, Toyota Production System and Motorola<br> * 3:00 Lean and Six Sigma both fall under the Process Improvement umbrella<br> * 3:30 Lean stands for “Less employees are needed”?<br> * 4:00 It’s really all about getting rid of waste and improving flow<br> * 4:30 What’s waste and DMAIC?<br> * 5:30 Everyone loves McDonalds! They are the masters of reducing variation<br> * 6:30 What’s good about Lean?<br> * 7:00 Change your organization’s mindset and culture and respect your people<br> * 8:00 Back to DMAIC<br> * 8:30 Lean and Six Sigma pros and what success looks like<br> * 10:30 What’s with the belts?<br> * 11:00 Dreaming of a Black Belt? Gauge where you want to go!<br> * 11:30 Lean and Six Sigma cons<br> * 13:00 Create a structured approach<br> * 13:30 “I don’t know how to speak Japanese!”<br> * 15:00 Don’t forget to respect your people<br> * 15:30 Promote the culture and lead the path<br> * 17:00 The cons continue…<br> * 17:30 Six Sigma reputation<br> * 18:00 Why do they call it Six Sigma? Isn’t it just Process Improvement?<br> * 19:00 Team Lean or Team Six Sigma?<br> * 20:00 And the winner is…<br> <br> <br> Podcast Transcript<br> Welcome to the Just-In-Time Cafe, GoLeanSixSigma.com’s official podcast, where we help you build your problem solving muscles. We share best practices from over 20 years of success helping organizations from the Fortune 500, to small and medium size business, to government achieve their goals using Lean Six Sigma.<br> Introduction<br> Tracy: Hey, Elisabeth!<br> Elisabeth: Hey, Tracy!<br> Tracy: How’s it going?<br> Elisabeth: It’s good. I’m psyched. I’m psyched here at the <a href="https://goleansixsigma.com/category/podcasts/">café</a>.<br> Tracy: Me too. Hey, welcome everybody to the <a href="https://goleansixsigma.com/category/podcasts/">Just-In-Time Café</a>. We are so busy in here, though. Let’s go in the dining room so we could chat.<br> Elisabeth: OK. I’m grabbing a menu.<br> Tracy: Cool because I’m hungry too. So what’s on the menu today, Elisabeth?<br> Elisabeth: Today, Tracy, rest yourself. Get ready because we are going to serve up the Battle of the Fixes, right? We want to know what is better, Lean or Six Sigma? We have two <a href="https://goleansixsigma.com/process-improvement/">process improvement</a> approaches and we—you and I—have got to decide once and for all which of these is better.<br> Tracy: You know what I like about this café is we get a chance to really talk about some of the stuff that we hear all the time.
