Getting Six Sigma training
As part of my business class I have been asked to look in to a few business models and then look at efficiency models to get some ideas for what might work to make certain companies more productive. It is the first time I have every really been asked to critically analyze a company's function as condensed down to effective or ineffective. I sort of like having the position of being the judge of this but it is quite difficult to put some real recommendations forth on to multi national corporations. Part of me is even a little bit put off by the thought that some day one of these same companies might see my paper and that might cost me a job interview or something. That last thought is pretty irrational though I know.
At this point in all of my research I have not gotten to the point of being able to actually make critiques. I am still sifting through the information on their various business models and applying the very first efficiency model. The six sigma training is the first series that I am working out and for all of them I think it would have a positive effect on efficiency within the system and general productivity coming out of the systems. After this I will be looking in to the application of lean within the manufacturing departments of certain branches in order to increase their production or shipping speeds.
I think that this is probably the most intense and interesting course i have had to take yet. I have been waiting all of my years of school to feel like a professor actually expects me to apply myself and come up with an original idea. All of the other projects i have ever done has felt like I am just doing the same thing as everyone else with minor language variations due to our differing backgrounds and origins. This one feels like I am being asked to take hold of the world and look at it with the eyes of someone who will be changing it all very soon.