Comments by Chris Alcock,  Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma

I see from this article in The Guardian ( link below ) that The Isle of Wight are reducing wastes in their Health care system using Lean principles and in doing so are being hailed as 'Health Care Pioneers.

Fewer delays, better interfaces, fewer misunderstandings (defects), less motion etc

all by the teams being in closer proximity to each other.

Breaking up the silos and creating smaller higher performing teams ( HPTs ) .

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/20/nhs-isle-of-wight-hub-leading-way-integrated-healthcare

So why wouldn't it work in other UK communities?

Instead of scaling emergency and social services up (perceived economies of scale) why not scale down and treat each town / city holistically?

Students of Lean Six Sigma will be interested to see a practical demonstration of the central limit theorem and  normal distribution. The demonstration was invented by Francis Galton ( University of London ) in 1894 . The demonstration consists of a vertical board with rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom. The heights of ball columns in the bins after hundreds of balls are dropped will approximate a normal distribution curve ( bell curve).   This is an excellent practical demonstration of how random variation in the inputs to business and manufacturing processes will cause values of the outputs of the processes to vary around the mean average values in a distribution that follows close to normal distribution.   Very good Youtube video showing the Galton Machine and the dropping balls here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m4bxse2JEQ

Positive feedback from fellow professionals is always nice to hear !

My sincere thanks to Mehdi Kootiarab, MBA, MCIPS  of Saudi Aramco for his most generous posting on Trustpilot.com concerning the Lean Six Sigma class that I presented to him in London in December together with my colleague Chris Alcock.  We do strive to provide the very highest quality of Lean Six Sigma training and it is very rewarding for us to obtain such positive feedback as this from our students.   Thank you Mehdi !

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