International Journal of Lean Six Sigma: Volume 8 Issue 4

Lean thinking: planning and implementation in the public sector

Juliana Pascualote Lemos de Almeida, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina, Marcia Mazzeo Grande, Daiane Gressler Brum

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how Lean office planning and implementation take place in a Brazilian regulatory agency and to investigate the adjustments needed for its…

Competitive advantage through Six Sigma at plastic injection molded parts manufacturing unit: A case study

Darshak Desai, Bhavikkumar Nileshbhai Prajapati

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the successful application of Six Sigma at a small and medium scale plastic parts manufacturing unit. Overall operational excellence is…

Six Sigma and organisational ambidexterity: a systematic review and conceptual framework

Cristina Alcaide-Muñoz, Leopoldo J. Gutierrez-Gutierrez

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between Six Sigma methodology and organisational ambidexterity (exploitation and exploration orientations). For this purpose…

Sustaining performance under operational turbulence: The role of Lean in engineer-to-order operations

Seyoum Eshetu Birkie, Paolo Trucco, Matti Kaulio

Many studies have found that Lean practices provide better performance in a stable business environment. However, there is limited information on how Lean practices influence…

Driving quality in product development in a Malaysian optoelectronic firm

Geoffrey K. Aligula, Chee Kuang Kok, Hock Kheng Sim

This paper aims to demonstrate how the five phases of design for six sigma approach as defined by define-measure-analyse-design-validate (DMADV) are adopted towards the…