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Business Process Management tools are critical to Lean Six Sigma and Six Sigma success. In fact, they are of critical importance to any process improvement or redesign effort.

An important strength of our practice is that we ensure that culture and process are integrated into change initiatives. Our approach to change allows you to truly own the results once the process is finished. The changes are yours, not ours.

Belts are on the front line in implementing Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma projects, and the success of your initiatives depends on their discipline, energy, and leadership, as much as on their mastery of new skills and modes of thinking.

“Six Sigma tools, particularly DFSS, are critical drivers of organic growth. DFSS can be used to significantly improve a new product, service, or process anywhere. Rath & Strong’s detailed approach to how your company can use these tools is terrific.” Dave Cote, Chairman and CEO, Honeywell

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) evolved from the competitive crucible of the 1980s and 1990s and is based on four themes that permeated the cultures of excellent Japanese companies

Improvement initiatives are spectacular in their successes and in their failures. For every company like GE that achieves a fundamental transformation of its work and culture, another completely squanders its invested time and money, and nearly two other firms get the tactical rewards of cost reduction projects without any strategic gains.

Training in how to sponsor a GE Work-Out event and in how to identify business problems amenable to GE Work-Out techniques.

GE Work-Out is a process for involving large numbers of people simultaneously in process improvement. The GE Work-Out Process captures the collective creativity of an organization on critical business issues and translates those ideas into action.

Our leadership practice is designed to help leaders identify the most effective ways to transform their organizations.

In its Lean Six Sigma programs, Rath & Strong incorporates a deep and long history of Lean and Six Sigma implementations with its newest approaches and tools.