The Breakthrough Strategy’s eight key components are grouped into four groups. Companies continue to grasp the basic principles of Six Sigma and get a sense of the Breakthrough Approach as a problem-solving technique with a particular range of methods during the Identify and Describe stages, which come under the heading of recognition.
Instead of merely reviewing the finished product or service provided to the consumer, administrators and personnel continue to challenge the procedures that go into making a product or service.
Management would also create opportunities and a climate for improvement . Black Belts classify unique Six Sigma projects in the Describe step, which is focused on product and process benchmarking.
Senior management considers which manufacturing or commercial lines could be the best initial target of Six Sigma ventures using the top-down product and process benchmarking. These decisions are taken in the sense of the organization’s market and business-specific concerns.
The Measure and Evaluate phases are part of the characterization method, which includes measuring and describing critical-to-quality characteristics in the process.
Since these two phases optimize and sustain the improved process capacity, the Develop and Monitor phases come under optimization.
Finally, the processes of Standardize and Incorporate are part of institutionalization, where the effects of implementing the whole Breakthrough Technique are woven into the culture of the corporation.
IDENTIFICATION STAGE
- In terms of consistency, price, and distribution, market growth depends on how well businesses fulfill consumer demands.
- Method capability and the amount of variety in their processes (which may be any form of process, from managerial to operation to distribution to manufacturing) decide their ability to fulfill these needs with a known degree of certainty.
- In terms of expense, processing time, and the number of errors that impair customer loyalty, heterogeneity has a significant effect on company performance.
- Identification helps enterprises to consider how their structures affect competitiveness and thus identify what the critical-to-business processes are.
CHARACTERIZATION STAGE
- Characterization evaluates where the method is evaluated at the moment it is measured and seeks to define the targets that the organization can seek to accomplish.
- It defines a mean, or benchmark, which provides a starting point for the calculation of change.
- Following the Assess and Evaluate steps that make up the characterization process, an implementation plan is set in place to bridge the difference between how things actually operate and how the organization would want them to work in order to achieve the company’s expectations for a given product or service.
In characterization, Six Sigma Black Belts choose one or more of the main characteristics of the commodity and offer a thorough explanation of each stage of the process. The Black Belts then make the required calculations, report the results on the process control cards, and estimate the short-term and long-term process capabilities.
OPTIMIZATION STAGE
Optimization defines the steps that need to be taken to enhance the procedure and reduce the main causes of variance. Key process variables are defined by statistically structured experiments; Black Belts then use these results to decide what “knobs” need to be changed to optimize the process.
Optimization is looking at a vast range of variables to evaluate the “vital handful” variables that have the biggest effect. Using a number of analyses, Black Belts assesses which factors have the greatest leverage or effect.
The final aim of optimization in the Breakthrough Strategy is to use the information obtained to develop and manage the process.
Results can be used for the establishment of improved process boundaries, for the adjustment of such process steps, or for the procurement of better materials and equipment. In short, optimization strengthens and monitors key variables that have the greatest effect on the key characteristics of the commodity.
This offers the company a number of enhancements that eventually boost performance and customer loyalty, as well as increase shareholder value.
INSTITUTIONALIZATION STAGE
The institutionalization processes, Standardize and Incorporate, are concerned with integrating Six Sigma into the everyday activities of the organization.
Six Sigma requires more than merely concentrating on and step of a project before it is finished. It also helps you to take a look back and understand how the cumulative outcomes of smaller tasks impact the big, high-level systems that control the day-to-day operations.
These ideas must be incorporated into management’s thinking and human resources as businesses understand what kinds of measurements and measurements are needed to accelerate progress.
The Standardize process puts together all of a company’s Six Sigma programs and works to define best practices and standardize them both internally and through organizations.
Companies can standardize the way systems are run and handled as they increase the efficiency of different processes.
Standardization helps enterprises to design more efficient systems by repurposing similar procedures, components, techniques, and products that have already been optimized and shown to function.
To endorse the overall Six Sigma concept, the Incorporate step modifies the organization’s management processes by using best practices found by Six Sigma initiatives.
Companies often learn that their existing cost-accounting strategies must be modified in order to properly track the “secret warehouse” and cost of bad production (COPQ), as well as the direct and indirect advantages of Six Sigma.
