Tying in to Buy-in Research Report

50% of respondents who said Six Sigma buy-in is measured at their company--The success of a company's Six Sigma deployment is directly related to the company's commitment to the methodology. One way to gauge that commitment is buy-in – how employees perceive Six Sigma and how receptive they are to it. The more that a company's employees have "bought in" to Six Sigma, the more likely the company is to be successful in its deployment. A lot of factors can hinder buy-in. Yet as this iSixSigma research shows, many companies are not thinking of buy-in when they launch a program, and they are not making a concerted effort to increase employee receptiveness. Findings explored in this report include: Finding 1: Buy-in to Six Sigma means different things at different companies. But however buy-in is characterized, in general, the longer a company has been using Six Sigma, the more buy-in there is. Finding 2: Six Sigma practitioners have strong buy-in to the methodology but there are many r