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What is Lean Six Sigma?

Lean Six Sigma is a waste-reduction process that can reduce the United States budget by 25 percent. The process has been successful in many private sector companies as well as in municipalities, state governments Read More

$30,000 owed by every child born today.

The national debt is putting an unfair financial strain on future generations. Every child born today is shackled with $30,000 of our nation’s debt, and it’s getting worse. The U.S. government borrows Read More

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Lean Six Sigma Practitioner Mike Kirby Weighs In on ABC's Matt Negrin's take on "Gingrich's Lean Six Sigma Plan"

Dec 12, 2011

Mike Kirby's letter to ABC's Matt Negrin

Dear Mr. Negrin,

Case Studies

Saving Heart Patient Lives

The Problem Insurance company notified Hospital that their cost of Cardiac Bypass Graft Surgery was not competitive and would receive no more patients. The Solution Lean Six Sigma* waste detection and reduction...

Lean Six Sigma Saves Lives

Problem The MRAP vehicle is a huge (up to 14 tons), heavily armored, personnel carrying vehicle that has been used in Iraq to protect soldiers and Marines from attacks by crude but effective, homemade bombs known as...

Reforming City Government

Problem The city of Fort Wayne, Indiana (population, 250,000) is credited as being the first city within the country to implement Lean Six Sigma (LSS) on a city government-wide basis. This was done in February 2000...

Lean Six Sigma Saves Jobs

Problem The HH-60 Pave Hawk is a day/night capable, armed helicopter that is used by the U.S. Air Force to recover downed aircrew or other stranded personnel during wartime. It can make recoveries either by landing or...

Eliminating Overpayments Waste

Problem The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) protects the retirement incomes of more than 44 million American workers in more than 29,000 private sector, defined - benefit pension plans. PBGC was created by...

Increase Repair Capability

Problem The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the mainstay of tactical aviation within the U.S. Air Force. It is a supersonic, single-engine all-weather-capable air superiority fighter is also used in ground attack roles. The F-...

Irving's Healthy Budget

Problem Irving, Texas is a city of approximately 200,000 residents located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It operates on a yearly budget of $350 million and has 2,180 employees. In 2006/2007, the city wanted to...

Improved Maintenance Process

The U.S. Navy’s premier tactical aircraft is the F/A-18 Hornet. It is the workhorse of the Naval Aviation enterprise which also includes aviation units of the U.S. Marine Corps. The F/A-18 is a supersonic, twin engine,...

Changed Employee Behavior

Problem Quality of performance within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was sufficiently poor in the 1990s that in 1998, Congress passed the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (RRA 98). Problem areas identified for...

Money Saved, Acquisitions Made

Problem The Department of the Navy has been a huge user of information technology (IT) items. (These items are: computer hardware and software, operating systems, telephones and other telecommunications products...

NASA's Lean Six Sigma

Problem NASA did not embark on its Lean Six Sigma (LSS) journey in response to some pressing problem or serious issue. Rather, LSS got its start in NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center as a result of an employee-...

EPA Finds Inefficiencies

Problem In December 2008, a team from the EPA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer conducted a Lean improvement project known as a Kaizen event. (Such an event is an intensive, three to five day workshop in which...

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