By now, several of us are beginning to hear about Lean Six Sigma and are wondering what this is all about? Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a unique analytical business process available to facilitate continuous process improvement (CPI) which includes Champions, Black Belts and Green Belts that enables companies to drastically improve their profitability by monitoring everyday business activities minimizing waste and inefficiencies. CPI program tends to improve the operational, administrative and support functions of the company. Many successful companies, such as Motorola, use Six Sigma. Ranging from customers, stockholders, employees to suppliers all benefit from this business process. The following factors make LSS achieve its success: 1) Leadership commitment 2) Focused resources. 3) Common tools and language 4) Disciplined project approach 5) Bottom-line business measures. Improvements are made by working to reduce waste through a five-step process: 1) Identifying customer value 2)Mapping the value stream 3)Creating flow 4)Seeking perfection 5)Pulling based on demand. Read more about this aspect at George Aslinger's article link: