| The future of a company or institution depends | | | | Education And Six Sigma |
| on the performance of their employees and | | | | Six Sigma is the appropriate tool where quality |
| students. Education professionals always come up | | | | management is concerned. In an educational |
| with new ideas to improve overall performance of | | | | setting, teachers are the work force and parents |
| students and institutions. These ideas are | | | | are the customers. |
| implemented in the form of new techniques and | | | | The latter tend to pay the fees and expect their |
| learning aids in teaching. This information given to | | | | wards to get good and qualitative results. By |
| the student not only helps them, but also helps | | | | improving teaching techniques, teachers expect a |
| the institution to maintain a good track record. | | | | positive change in the performance of their |
| What Is Six Sigma? | | | | students. This change is expected to last for a |
| A technique to achieve strategic business results, | | | | stipulated time for the acquired profit to remain |
| Six Sigma is a customer-based approach, which | | | | constant. |
| shows that neglecting defects can turn out very | | | | Six Sigma Implementation |
| expensive for the company or institution. The | | | | The first step before the implementation is to |
| fewer risks a company is exposed to, the lesser | | | | recognize the problem and define a project to |
| the possibilities of losing customers. | | | | lessen or completely eradicate the problem. These |
| Origin Of Six Sigma | | | | projects are led by the Green Belts and assisted |
| In the 1980's, under threat from its Japanese | | | | by the Black Belts. Using a DMAIC (Define. |
| counterpart, Motorola came up with a concept to | | | | Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) theory |
| counter the situation. The success of this concept | | | | the following steps are taken |
| is witnessed in the profit and expansion of | | | | Starting from the senior most level, basic six |
| companies like General Electric (GE) and Allied | | | | sigma principles are taught. This creates an |
| Signal. | | | | environment for innovation and creativity. |
| Culture And Techniques Used In Six Sigma | | | | Thereafter, a module is developed in order to |
| Culture may be very unnecessary, but by merely | | | | establish a close communication between teachers |
| changing it, companies can be very successful. | | | | and students. This module involves preparing a |
| This culture includes not just the Quality Leaders, | | | | method to obtain and evaluate everyone's input. |
| Black Belts and Green Belts, but everyone in the | | | | In educational settings, teachers help in building a |
| company. After following a process of identifying | | | | data by conducting a study. |
| the problem in a process and charting out the | | | | Conclusion |
| course to address it, the process is evaluated and | | | | By applying Six Sigma to education, a positive |
| worked upon. | | | | change in teaching methods and a consequential |
| By reducing the number of defects from a | | | | positive result is bound to happen. Proper |
| process to 3.4 defectives per million, Six Sigma | | | | education paves the way for qualitative learning |
| raises the level of customer satisfaction. In | | | | for everyone. By implementing the right |
| companies, everyone strives to achieve targets | | | | techniques, the road ahead would be smooth |
| by introducing a change in their work environment | | | | enough to reach the desired goals. |
| and way of functioning. | | | | |