Black Belts as Future Business Leaders
Over the last twenty years, Six Sigma has moved on from being just a concept and a goal. It is now a business necessity to deliver operational excellence and customer satisfaction. The hard benefits of Six Sigma have been well-documented; several companies across the globe have reported savings of billions of dollars from their Six Sigma implementations. View detail

The Nano Effect: Building a Culture of Innovation in Organizations
Several companies are able to bring out small innovations at different periods of their existence to bring new life to their businesses. Companies such as Kodak, Motorola, and Xerox have come back from the dead in such attempts only to see themselves struggling yet again after a few years. View PDF

Vertical Limit… In Pursuit of Innovation
The ‘Follow the Leader’ process can only show you what has already been achieved.  It can never make you the leader.  In today’s increasingly competitive world, if you are not there with the best of the best, you run the risk of losing out.  To truly become the best and keep winning, one would need to set the “next mark” which would then be copied by others. View PDF

Does Your Company have a Sustainable Six Sigma Implementation
In the last five years, several companies in India have started implementing Six sigma as a business philosophy.  The successful implementation experience of GE and several others in the Western world and more importantly, the powerful methodology in itself makes a compelling case for all organizations to implement Six Sigma.  Do these companies have a sustainable implementation or is it just going to be the new fad that will go away?
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Eureka!  Seeing a Forest of Innovations Because of TRIZ
It is counter-intuitive for us to think that innovation could be predictable, reliably obtained and reproducible.  But what if the process creative thinking could be reduced to a science?  Could people actually learn to think innovatively and solve problems simply by following a set of pre-determined rules or steps?
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Common Practices ≠ Best Practices
We read about them all the time.  In fact, many magazines like this one make a point of printing articles on subjects that are “best practices.”  But what is a best practice?  Does it mean someone has figured out how to do something better than everyone else? View PDF

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