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Oct 27, 2026
Howie RosenGUEST
process.
Howie RosenGUEST
A specific question about starting a company in Nigeria and what types of methodologies to use, such as Lean Startup, Six Sigma, etc.
Howie RosenGUEST
It's specifically about Nigeria, but it's really a question that's general.
Howie RosenGUEST
It comes back to the point about not sitting in an office with the door locked, putting together a 100-page business plan.
LoriHOST
Gautam Mukunda says increased efficiency of artificial intelligence could cause a slump in innovation.
LoriHOST
The latest way to sell artificial intelligence is with a high-tech version of the promise that corporate America last bought from Six Sigma.
LoriHOST
Workday told investors this month that its customers should pay for its AI agents out of what they spend on labor and services, not just software.
LoriHOST
Workday itself, its CEO said, was looking to replace new hires with AI.
LoriHOST
The results confirmed what the late William Abernathy of Harvard Business School called the productivity dilemma.
LoriHOST
The increased efficiency came with decreased innovation.
LoriHOST
Process management programs, such as Six Sigma, work by reducing variance in a company's routines.
LoriHOST
Management scholars Mary Benner and Michael Tushman found that the more process management a company did, the more its innovation built on what it already knew instead of creating new approaches and drawing on new ideas.
John BroerHOST
So you're going to get a chance to meet Angel Williams.
John BroerHOST
She actually is an ASQ certified Six Sigma black belt.
John BroerHOST
And as a result of her work, she actually wrote a book.
John BroerHOST
It's a parable called Stop Fixing Symptoms, a 30-minute business parable about solving problems at the root.
Angel WilliamsGUEST
So it's a different way of looking at things and something super complicated.
Angel WilliamsGUEST
I remember my father asking me, why are you, you know, why are you majoring in mathematics? What are you going to do with it? I said, I have no idea, but I just really enjoy solving problems.
Angel WilliamsGUEST
And so when I found this world of Lean Six Sigma, it gave me a way to work with teams and use a methodology.
Angel WilliamsGUEST
And I do still use some math, not as much as I used to in school.
Sonia MillanGUEST
The case gets touched like six times when it can be twice.
Sonia MillanGUEST
So those are the things that I started to implement in my clinic before I even did the actual didactic and certification for Lean Six Sigma.
Sonia MillanGUEST
That's great.
Liz CrescentiHOST
I wish more people had your mindset, especially... with our background and our lean thinking, just even going to the doctor's office when you go through the whole process, you just see everything that's so flawed.
Marco BonillaHOST
It can be depending if it's a service we're developing, right? But we do have the equivalent.
Marco BonillaHOST
The difference is most people like yourself go straight to the manufacturing side where we're producing a yo-yo or hula hoop over and over again, or more complicated, a missile, whatever.
Marco BonillaHOST
So that's where manufacturing lean and Six Sigma come in a lot in the conversation.
Marco BonillaHOST
But believe it or not, on the design side, the product development side, there's a lot of opportunity for the same thing, that they don't want to be hindered.
Dean NolleyGUEST
Most people that do what I do do not enjoy the sales infrastructure, the grind of it.
Dean NolleyGUEST
But I call myself a freak of nature because I am a green belt in Six Sigma.
Dean NolleyGUEST
And that is not normal for a sales guy, sales leader, to be a green belt in Six Sigma.
Bob TankesleyHOST
But you're integrating some AI-enabled tools.
Bob TankesleyHOST
You mentioned that A couple of times.
Jose Lugo SantiagoHOST
I'll give you an example.
Jose Lugo SantiagoHOST
In Six Sigma, we talk about the standard normal distribution.
Jose Lugo SantiagoHOST
You know, if you look at math, it's just what people, some people call it the bell curve.
Jose Lugo SantiagoHOST
It's symmetrical on both ways.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
Strip cost and waste, this is the trade I came up in.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
Lean, constraints, Six Sigma, the operational excellence field.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
The slogan is more with less, and less is the tell.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
and you can divide, split what exists already.
Reda BelabedGUEST
But at the same time, you may need to have local individuals from that specific nationalities like nationals of that country registered under your entity to be able to represent the company before the authority so that understanding what is a must-have from what's good to have in setting up who your internal team should be and where should they be located obviously yes there's always a cost consideration uh there and that's where you start looking at it from a a continuous exercise of make, buy, automate.
Reda BelabedGUEST
So what is it that I need to do in-house? What is it that I need to buy from our service partners? And what is it that I can automate within the process to make life easier? And that goes, I think, and I'll have to thank my days at GE where I got familiarized with lean management and Six Sigma.
Reda BelabedGUEST
where I started being very methodical in the approach of calculating the time and the process step by step that we need to take.
Reda BelabedGUEST
So it goes through some value stream mapping exercises, looking at flow and the tactile for each of these processes.
ElainePANELIST
But by simple shift in the mind, it really does make a difference.
ElainePANELIST
And Masha's talking about something that I was trained on in the corporate world at Sony was Kaizen, which is Six Sigma.
ElainePANELIST
And you're only looking to make 1% change every day.
ElainePANELIST
And that's the compounded effect.
Debbie McKinleyGUEST
So she unplugged the vacuum, had to plug it back in, go back over a little bit of what she had just done and kept going.
Debbie McKinleyGUEST
And of course, my old timey Six Sigma brain was like, OK, this doesn't make any sense to me.
Debbie McKinleyGUEST
Why are you doing that? And so then I did it myself several times.
Debbie McKinleyGUEST
And I ended up asking the ladies, I'm like, hey, why do your vacuum cleaners have such short cords? That seemed to not make any sense to me.
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