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The method
How improvement actually happens: the working discipline behind Lean Six Sigma, stripped of the brochure. These pieces cover the tools you'd use on a real operations floor — control charts, kaizen, the difference between keeping a process steady and moving it to a better level — and the questions to ask before you start.
How improvement actually happens: the working discipline behind Lean Six Sigma, stripped of the brochure. These pieces cover the tools you'd use on a real operations floor — control charts, kaizen, the difference between keeping a process steady and moving it to a better level — and the questions to ask before you start.
Every article here has the same test: would it help someone fix a real process on Monday? If the answer is no, it doesn't belong.
6 pieces
Articles in The method
Kaizen means change for the better, done continuously by the people doing the work. Simple idea, powerful maths — and easy to reduce to a suggestion box nobody reads.
1 September 2026 Five questions to ask before your next improvement projectMost improvement projects fail before they start — a symptom mistaken for a problem, a baseline never measured. Five plain questions catch it early.
18 August 2026 The hidden cost of broken processesWaste hides because everyone nearby has adapted to it. Two simple pieces of maths show why it is worse than it looks — and why "everyone at 95% busy" is a disaster.
5 January 2026 Breakthrough vs control — two different jobs, and why most teams only do oneKeeping a process at its current level and moving it to a better one are different jobs needing different tools. Confusing them is why so much effort yields so little.
10 December 2022 What is Lean Six Sigma — and when is it the wrong tool?The method works. The hype around it often does not. What Lean Six Sigma actually promises, in plain English — and where it earns or loses its keep.
17 November 2022 Statistical Process Control — the chart everyone draws and half misuseA control chart answers one question: is this noise, or news? Simple idea, constantly misused. Here is how it works and how it gets abused.
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