Podcast
Process and Quality Excellence Pointers
Hosted by Thomas Pyzdek · EN
Six Sigma Pointers is hosted by Tom Pyzdek, author of The Six Sigma Handbook and noted authority on process excellence. The podcasts cover all important aspects of Six Sigma and process excellence, including lean, quality, and many other topics.
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Interview with Business Profits Radio
Jan 5, 201000:37:16Tap to summarizeRadio host Robert Skrob asks Tom about Six Sigma. What is it? How is it useful to small businesses? Can it be used to improve sales, marketing, operations? This wide-ranging interview covers a tremendous variety of topics relating to business process excellence.
Transcribe →Why Healthcare Quality Stinks in America
Nov 29, 200900:08:03Tap to summarizeLet's be honest, America's healthcare non-system has its problems. What are the root causes? Do any of the proposed solutions address them?
Transcribe →Episode 027-American Kaizen
Sep 21, 200900:06:55Tap to summarizeKaizen means "improvement" in Japanese. In Japan businesses view Kaizen as a way to engage everyone in improvement without spending much money. Improvements are usually small, and overall improvement is gradual. Americans have little patience for such an approach. This podcast describes the American version of Japan's successful approach to improving products and processes.
Transcribe →Episode 026-Tough Times and Lean Six Sigma
Mar 18, 200900:07:20Tap to summarizeWhat can you do to help yourself and your organization during tough times? Tom provides a few pointers to help.
Transcribe →Episode 025-10 Reasons to do Six Sigma
Jan 4, 200900:06:36Tap to summarizeThere are many reasons an organization might consider doing Six Sigma. For example, survival! This podcast presents a list of 10 other reasons.
Transcribe →Episode 024-Flavor of the Month
Dec 15, 200800:09:02Tap to summarizeIs Lean or Six Sigma a Flavor of the Month? What does this derisive label actually mean? Listen to this podcast and learn more!
Transcribe →Episode 023-Be careful what you wish for
Oct 12, 200800:10:20Tap to summarizeWe all want leadership support, right? But if you're not careful to specify precisely what you want your leaders to do for you, you may find yourself worse off than before.
Transcribe →episode 022-An overview of Black Belt training
Jul 5, 200800:22:50Tap to summarizeTom presents the audio track of the first lesson of his online Black Belt training. His approach is unique because it presents the various tools in the context of how they are applied. If you are not yet a Six Sigma Black Belt, you will discover what is taught in Black Belt training. If you're already a Black Belt, this podcast will help you understand when and how each tool is applied.
Transcribe →episode 021-modeling with regression
Jul 1, 200800:05:32Tap to summarizeOne important Black Belt activity is to use the organization's data warehouse to explore cause and effect relationships by building models using multiple linear regression. This isn't as easy as just throwing all of the candidate Xs into a software package and crunching away. This podcast describes the technique Tom teaches in Black Belt training.
Transcribe →episode 020-All About Six Sigma
May 24, 200800:31:28Tap to summarizeMindtool's Rachel Salaman interviews Tom about a wide range of Six Sigma topics. Listen to hear what Six Sigma is, where Six Sigma should (and should not) be used, what are the benefits and pitfalls that await Six Sigma users, where Six Sigma is heading in the future, and much more!
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