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Interview with IQPC Process Excellence Award Finalist Adam Sharp, Master Black Belt for The Hartford Insurance Group

Genna Weiss interviews Adam Sharp, Assistant Vice President and Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the The Hartford Insurance Group, to discuss his finalist status for IQPC’s 2009 Process Excellence award in the Master Black Belt of the Year Award

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Six Sigma and Innovation

Mark Kiemele In the performance improvement arena and business in general, today's most commonly used buzzword is undoubtedly “innovation.” In fact, “innovate or die” is sometimes referred to as the mandate of the new millennium. Since Six Sigma (also meaning Lean Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma for the purpose of this writing) has been the key driver for performance improvement for many companies, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies, a natural question to ask is: What is the relationship between Six Sigma and innovation?

Not to be associated with those who believe that Six Sigma stifles innovation, we at Air Academy have witnessed the rebirth of companies that depend on the synergy of Six Sigma and innovation to bring them into their new lives and sustain them. We are not the only company that has witnessed this. At a recent Six Sigma conference, several CEOs said they couldn’t disagree more with the statement that Six Sigma and innovation are at odds with each other. One CEO related that his company used tactical innovation within the DMAIC methodology to generate the savings needed to fund the strategic or disruptive innovation that was launched at the corporate level. What a novel idea!
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