Lean Six Sigma as Effective Strategy for Business Success
Lean is a process improvement approach to improve organization’s
efficiency by identifying and eliminate non-value-added activities, while Six
Sigma is a methodology focused on reduction of process variation. The integration of both, namely Lean Six Sigma (LSS) drives organization on
waste elimination, variation reduction and value creation, which ultimately
enhancing organizational performance. LSS has been viewed by prior
scholars as one of effective approach for business improvement regardless
of manufacturing or services industry. However, the research of LSS in
education sector, particularly for business school is relatively lacking.
Hence, this research aimed to identify the critical success factors (CSFs)
for LSS within a business school in Malaysia. The research also aimed to
explore the relationship between the LSS, CSFs, and organization
performance. There were six CSFs identified from literature review, while
organization performance is assessed via the concept of system theory.
The research was quantitative based with the lecturers in the business
school as the targeted population. Questionnaire was distributed based on
stratified sampling plan with 69 responded. Descriptive and Pearson
correlation analysis result revealed that lecturers within the business school
perceived that all the six LSS CSFs as “very important”, and strongly
correlated with organization performance, except CSF “project selection
and prioritization”. As implication, finding from this research suggested that
the adaption of LSS between manufacturing and education sectors shared
the commonality in term of CSF. However, the business school should look
into project proposal from the lecturers’ perspective as an alternate source
of process improvement opportunity
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