CHAPTER 6How and Where Should We Start Our Efforts?

The first important choice you have to make in your Six Sigma launch, and one that affects your costs and the potential size and speed of your return on investment, boils down to asking “Where do we begin?” You can use the Six Sigma roadmap that was introduced in Chapter 4 to frame and guide these start-up decisions. In this chapter, we actually look at two ways to approach your initial implementation decisions. The first is based on criteria that affect the scale and urgency of your effort; the second is an assessment of your strengths and weaknesses in what we call the core competencies of the Six Sigma system.

Where to Start: Objective, Scope, and Time Frame

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