A six sigma project’s success is nearly directly dependent on the organizational culture and the behaviours of the people and processes within the organization. A couple of models exist that can be used to analyse an organization’s culture and behaviours to determine and support the change needed to ensure the success of the six sigma project.

Today, businesses require effective business analysis in order to maintain competitiveness in a highly competitive business world. Effective business analysis involves taking information gathered from a variety of sources and analysing for the purpose of forecasting future trends, finding ways to make improvements in business strategies, improving businesses operations, and making smart business decisions to improve the company’s bottom line.

Business process re-engineering emerged on the scene before business process management even existed, promising radical organizational transformation fast.

The systems development life cycle is a methodology commonly used in project management to divide larger or more complex projects into smaller more manageable segments or phases. Segmenting a project allows for accurate progress tracking and time management, because successful completion of a phase can be verified before resources are allocated to subsequent phases of the project. A typical development life cycle will include initiation, planning, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance phases. The initiation phase is mostly spent trying to identify a potential new project or changes to an existing one and setting up a proposal to justify it.  [ Read More ]