Management and Supervisory

Experiences of chemical distributors offer guidance

The success of Six Sigma vs. classic quality metrics lies in its ability to more usefully measure defects.

Understanding how you and those around you make decisions is a first step in improving interpersonal relationships and team efficiencies.

Decision-makers often require cost estimates for products and processes at the earliest stages of development — when many cost-determining factors remain uncertain. Identifying variables that impact cost estimates, and putting them in context, will...

By implementing Six Sigma at its ethylene unit, Sasol has been able to recover as much as 65% of the opportunities that could have been lost.

Learn ways to improve your interpersonal and communication skills so that you can work more effectively with others, and increase your own productivity and effectiveness.

The cross-functional IPT approach can be combined with a stage-gate framework and six sigma techniques to improve the effectiveness of process development efforts.

Maximize workplace efficiency via implementation of best practices using workflow modeling and automation.

The most successful employee-retention programs begin with recruiting and hiring the individual who best matches the position and best fits into the company's culture.

Working with employees to define “doing a good job” can improve organizational performance as well as employee satisfaction.