Six Sigma: Phases

The technical tools and systems no doubt add a lot towards the achievement of Six Sigma project management improvement, but they simply cannot be taken as the only factors accountable for Six Sigma’s efficiency because they just compliment the intrinsic logic underscoring Six Sigma and as such are no more than a means to an end.
Therefore, what are the reasons why Six Sigma is so efficient and reliable? Well, for that, you just have to take a closer look at the utmost and best regularly utilized and applied Six Sigma superiority improvement practice, or popularly known as Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control or DMAIC for short. Look out for similarities between normal business methods and the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control or DMAIC stages mentioned above, some of that are labelled below.
1. The Define Stage
The define stage is relatively the same to the normal business method of knowing common issues of a given business procedures with the objective to device efficient solutions for overpowering the given issues and problems. It could be compared easily with a businessman’s effort to enhance the delivery systems of his or her business through conducting a review of all the diverse major and minor factors of the whole delivery system.
2. The Measure Stage
If we ponder the above sample, this stage will seem no diverse from the business effort to measure the negative effect which the identified issues could possibly have on his or her overall business.
This is fairly essential for the businessperson; because it is just then will he or she is capable of concentrating his or her efforts on overwhelming issues that hold the most possible for damage.
3. The Analyze Stage
The Analyze stage is fairly comparable to the effort of the businessmen to make a list of the entire available options as well as check each of them separately in order to know which one will work best for getting the looked-for results. Just like the businessperson would wish, the Analyze stage too calls for choosing only those options for final application that hold the most possible and are lucrative.
4. The Improve Stage
The Improve phase is no different from the effort of the businessmen to make sure that the projects designated for development are applied in the set manner. Just like the businessperson would wish, the Improve stage too stresses finishing projects in the specified costs and time.
5. The Control Stage
Just as the businessperson would like to know the efficiency of the development project management, the Control stage too stresses measuring whether or not the development initiatives are acting as per prospects. Taking corrective measures when there is an incongruity or disparity is intrinsic to the Control stage, just as a businessperson would want to do.
Now, I conclude you can comprehend precisely why Six Sigma is so very efficient. It is simply due to the fact that it follows sound business reason which almost not ever fails to convey.

— Slimane Zouggari