The TPS-Lean Six Sigma Life Cycle Scan
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
-- Henry Ford
There is a kind of re-education needed to connect business management with normal life. There has always been an enormous gap between the way people treat colleagues at work and the way they treat friends and family. With regard to the latter, we do not see friendship, tolerance, etc. as sentimental and "soft" when we deal with friends and family, but rather as a lubricant for the relationship. Could we not extend this to the business community as well? The gap between these two views is currently decreasing; perhaps here rests the solution for tomorrow's problems.
-- Roger Evans and Peter Russell
The TPS-Lean Six Sigma Life Cycle Scan is a performance excellence model aimed at continuous performance and process improvement. It is a holistic instrument for systematic self diagnosis that will help both public and private sector organizations to increase individual and organizational quality & performance in the direction of Total Performance. We present five development levels and eight dimensions that follow the TPS-Lean Six Sigma concept. These levels and dimensions indicate the organization’s level of performance maturity compared with that needed to excel in management. The five development levels are: basic, improving, moderate, advanced, and total performance. Each higher level, i.e. towards total performance, can be considered as an increase in the organization’s abilities to adapt and react to external and internal necessity for improved quality & performance. The TPS-Lean Six Sigma Life Cycle Scan is a measuring rod that can augment existing approaches being used by the organization. It helps to define in which development level it finds itself by its total TPS-Lean Six Sigma Life Cycle Scan score. By making performance management measurable in this way, it will be easier to manage related performance processes and to increase the score year by year. This makes it possible to steer improvement actions systematically, always aiming for higher levels of personal and business excellence.
TPS-Lean Six Sigma' Five Levels of Development
Level 1) Basic performance: Hardly any attention is given to personal and organizational performance measurement, process mindedness, personal integrity, and knowledge and talent management. Inspection is the main method used to assure quality.
Level 2) Improving performance: Sporadic and ad hoc manual attention is given to measuring personal and organizational performance. Any process mind set is only related to risk reduction, while performance implications of personal integrity are only related to regulatory compliance. Performance improvement depends on quarter to quarter extraordinary ad hoc actions, and tends to fall short of expectations. The company has implemented quality control and quality assurance functions, but has not applied these functions effectively.
Level 3) Moderate performance: Measurement of personal and organizational performance is selective. An organizational balanced scorecard is produced. The company has implemented quality control and quality assurance functions, and has applied these functions effectively. ISO 9000 quality system may be present in the organization. The performance of the organization is starting to improve selectively beyond previous expectations.
Level 4) Advanced performance: Measurement of personal and organizational performance is structured and systematic. TQM, Six Sigma and Lean Management/Manufacturing may be present in the organization. Every improvement project follows the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) model. At this stage, some departments are piloting important TPS-Lean Six Sigma elements at the strategic level. Parts of the organization qualify for TPS-Lean Six Sigma distinction.
Level 5) Total performance: TPS-Lean Six Sigma has become a natural and continuous learning process that runs smoothly and spontaneously. Personal and organizational performance measurement, a customer-oriented process mind set, personal integrity, and the systematic management of knowledge and talent all have highest priority. All key elements of TPS-Lean Six Sigma have been implemented throughout the organization on strategic, tactical, operational, and individual levels. The performance of this organization is classified as total on the basis of these characteristics. The entire organization qualifies for the TPS-Lean Six Sigma certification on the basis of this result, and is considered to be practicing Best Practices.
INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPLETE THE SCAN:
Please complete the Registration Form below to receive the link by email for completing the TPS-Lean Six Sigma Life Cycle Scan. An Email will be sent to the address you provide, when you receive the email, click on the link and you are on your way. The scan takes about 5 minutes to complete and the results and summary are provided to you. TPS-Lean Six Sigma respects your privacy and none of the information you provide will be shared. After completing the Life Cycle Scan and receiving the results, if you have questions, concerns, or would like a TPS-Lean Six Sigma advisor to review your scan results with you, we would be happy to do so. Just indicate below how you would like to be contacted and a TPS-Lean Six Sigma representative will be in touch with you. If you did not provide contact information, but would still like to be contacted, please go to our "Contact Us" page and fill in the appropriate information. Thank you for taking the first important step in the TPS-Lean Six Sigma process. The best is yet to come!