| Harrington
Middle East offers Internationally renowned
Six Sigma course for the first time in the
region
Harrington Middle East, a joint venture
between the Bin Zayed Group and Harrington
Institute (USA) which provides management,
technology, education and knowledge solutions,
has launched Six Sigma courses for the first
time in the Middle East.
The first Six Sigma Boot Camp organized
by Harrington Middle East in Dubai recently
was attended by executives from leading
private and public sector companies, including
Commercial Bank of Dubai, ADMA-OPCO, Saudi
Hollandi Bank, Riyad Bank, Department of
Health, Saudi Telecom Co., Gulf Testing
Factory Services (GTFS) and Al Saif and
Sons Medical Company. The Six Sigma Boot
Camp was high intensity group-teaching programme,
at the end of which the participants were
given a certification endorsed by Dr. HJ
Harrington, CEO of Harrington Middle East,
and guru of performance improvement.
“Six Sigma, an advanced form of total
quality management, can save thousands of
dollars, once implemented in a company.
It focuses on simple statistical methods
to analyze measure and improve the performance
of all the processes throughout the organization,”
said Patrick Donnally, managing director,
Harrington Middle East. “It offers
the participants proven methodologies designed
to achieve or exceed their organization’s
performance improvement goals.”
Harrington Middle East, established less
than a year ago, is fully geared to train
participants to apply the Six Sigma core
strategies to their processes. At the end
of the course, the participants are given
the title of Green Belt. The participants
are made to understand innovative tools,
cause-and-effect analysis, trend analysis,
process improvement tools and data analysis.
Selected employees, who are usually managers
and team leaders, are thereafter chosen
to attend an advanced programme for the
Black Belt. The training covers project
management, application management, team
management and team building. They are then
sent back to seek out and eliminate problems
plaguing their organizations.
“The launch of regular Six Sigma
courses marks a new stage in the development
of Harrington Middle East as the international
consulting firm with a full range of services
targeting the entire Middle East region,
with a strong focus on the GCC,” said
Donnally. “We are also embarking on
an expansion drive to cover other countries
like Malaysia and Sudan.”
Dr. Harrington, who has written over 30
books on performance improvement, is currently
working on a new book called “Organizational
Excellence,” The title of the book
also happens to be the motto of Harrington
Middle East.
The Six Sigma methodology is a superior
improvement approach that scores over the
ISO 9000. The standard for quality has today
improved from two percent defective in the
1940s to 00.0003 percent defective.
Until the Six Sigma methodology was accepted
by business, processes that were producing
more than 62 defects per 100,000 were acceptable.
Now a Six Sigma process can produce less
than 3.4 defects per million. This type
of performance is expected not only from
production but also from internal support
departments and service organizations.
Source: PC
Magazine
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