10 Lean Six Sigma Sayings, Proverbs, or Just General Good Points

You may not hear these phrases every day in your school system’s central office or schools, but if you did and your staff thought like this…. What difference would they be making in the lives of your students, parents and communities?  I am not sure who first authored the below phrases, but these phrases are […]

Lean Six Sigma in Public Education – 5 Best Practices for Implementation

1.  You Have Customers; They Come First School systems are complex organizations that meet the needs of various stakeholders, both internal and external.  These stakeholders are the customers of your school system.   The school system’s focus must flow through all of these customer pathways to the final and most important customer – the students.   The […]

Applying Lean Six Sigma in Public Education? What Lean Six Sigma is NOT

  Sometimes the best way to understand what something is is to understand what it is not.  I am often asked “what is Lean Six Sigma?”  This is a new approach for most educators and administrators and, quite frankly, there’s a lot to understand.  In the past, I have used an illustration of six blind […]