Catalyst Consulting Articles

A review of a workshop devoted to integrating Lean and Six Sigma through a revolutionary new concept: Kai Sigma.

As a Lean Six Sigma belt, are you working on your projects or expediting your deployment? All too often the emphasis is on individual projects and not the bigger picture of the dep...

Process improvement is a journey, and within Government departments it can be a difficult one, though it is worth making. The UK's Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) ...

John Morgan and David Howells, joint heads of the Lean Six Sigma Academy, explain the magnificent seven lean six sigma principles that make the two methodologies work together.

A systematic and pragmatic way for people and organisations to improve performance, by ensuring that people at all levels of an organisation both feel able, and are able, to challe...

How much waste and rework is going on in your organisation and how much effort is being invested to reduce or eliminate the root causes of the underlying problems? Error-nomics:...

This paper introduces the concept of "Visual Six Sigma", a pragmatic and practical approach to data analysis and process improvement that has been developed in response t...

An introduction to the benefits of the Lean Six Sigma methodologies that goes into the details of the concepts, tools and techniques.

The UK Healthcare system is notorious for its bureaucratic complexity and inefficient processes. Recently Dr Paresh Dawda, a General Practitioner (GP), and Catalyst Consulting implemented an improvement programme using Six Sigma and Lean techniques, which has yielded considerable benefits already in terms of improved efficiency and customer satisfaction.

During this three-hour workshop held at the Six Sigma Summit,London in April 2007, we heard how and when you can use coaching to support your Six Sigma deployments and projects. We also discovered how to become more aware of the opportunities to build and apply coaching skills.

Do you have a great need to innovate , but are not good at delivering the business benefit? Learn how from Catalyst Consulting.

Recent decades have brought to us many approaches, methodologies and toolkits that may traditionally have been applied elsewhere but whose applicability has been proven in the serv...

John Morgan, Director of Catalyst Consulting, discusses tools for prevention, including FMEA and PDPC techniques as effective and efficient ways of achieving quality and maintainin...

The opportunity for Shared Services from Six Sigma is enormous. Vince Grant discusses how the opportunity exists both in-house and for externally sub-contracted businesses (known a...

<P>Why is Six Sigma such a hot topic in so many boardrooms at present? Every aspect of an organisation&rsquo;s processes, products or services is prone to defects - probl...

<P>The focus of this third article in the series on Six Sigma is leadership and management. I&rsquo;m writing it as we approach the real end to the millennium. It&rsq...

In this article, we&rsquo;re looking at the links between Six Sigma and the European Foundation for Quality Management&rsquo;s (EFQM), Excellence Model see figure one belo...

<P>So what is it? And why is Six Sigma a hot agenda item in so many boardroom meetings right now?&nbsp;</P> <P>Well, Six Sigma can be viewed as a number of ...

<P>Andy Liddle and Vince Grant spoke with onesixsigma.com to explain how organisations now have a new framework for improving their Six Sigma deployments.</P>

DuPont Teijin Films are the world's premier producer of polyester films. Andy Liddle was the Global Six Sigma Quality Champion before joining Catalyst Consulting in 2005

<P>It&rsquo;s likely to be impossible to achieve Six Sigma performance without managing your suppliers and developing a relationship with them. In managing and improving ...