October 2007
As the healthcare and laboratory industries look for ways to implement Lean and Six Sigma, it increasingly is turning to experts in the manufacturing field and bringing them in-house to apply their expertise to the world of healthcare. Part of the reason behind this is simply that Lean and Six Sigma originated in manufacturing. Lean, which broadly applies to efficiency, came out of Toyota; Six Sigma, which broadly applies to quality, came out of Motorola. Both Lean and Six Sigma, however, overlap significantly, and both apply to quality and efficiency. Now, approximately 30 years after its inception, the most experienced practitioners generally have a manufacturing background.
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