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Article: The ups and downs of lean, Six Sigma.(NEWS)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Regardless of you leading your customers and organization through a long-standing rough spot or flopping with face-plant financially and operationally you can learn a great deal from Lean and Six Sigma project success stories and failures.
More than a dozen experts shared their positive and negative anecdotes, as well as useful tips, with Healthcare Purchasing News that are chronicled below in edited transcripts of their own words.
Lean Success stories
At a large government services organization we implemented [Lean Six Sigma] in the logistics, supply and account management functions, touching an estimated 60,000 federal employees. Success was a ...