subject: The Six Sigma Winning Ballgame [print this page] When most people think of baseball, they hardly think of statistics unless they are fanatical fans and would certainly wonder why Six Sigma would even be part of the same conversation. However, the level of technical detail of Six Sigma would make it very compatible with baseball and statistics.
America's Favorite Pastime can easily prove how commonplace statistics actually are in the world. After watching a few games, and potentially collecting a few cards, many a young child learns to love the sport of baseball, and can tell you anything about a player from their RBI stats to their fielding percentages . . . even when they are struggling with their math homework. After someone has mastered all of the different terms and technical aspects of the game of baseball, they could easily check out these scores and statistics of a game and be able to imagine what that game would've been like.
The stats of the Six Sigma Process and your company work in much the same way. Six Sigma Process can give you important business operational stats and get you very detailed information about each step of the process you are using and if it is effective or if something needs to be changed. Another way of looking at this is imagining the Six Sigma Process is like a'box score' for your company's production and progress. Spending time gathering ideas of how to develop a method of project progress for each project;or in baseball game terms "keeping score", will ensure better than expected success.
Baseball is a very good example of how structure, when used properly, can be very effective when winning at any game; business or otherwise. Baseball has three outs, three strikes and nine innings and has served the game well. These concepts can be easily integrated into a business environment concerning customers; however you might have to go into a tenth or twelfth innings to iron out all the bugs before it works properly. This trial and error method of finding out what works best, has helped many a successful business use the structure principle to take their company to the next level of success.
Balanced scorecards and a structured approach are mere but important insightful baseball terms. These terms could easily describe the Six Sigma Process and the business success it is noted for. If you already know where your company level is, you probably know what the target is, where you are at in the ratings and what the backup plan consists of. Six Sigma Process and Projects expect nothing less than a winner. Six Sigma also knows that second place winners are just the first loser. Let Six Sigma Process formulate the winning stats for your business.
