[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 414 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 414

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal 
  Government should incorporate the principles of the Lean Six Sigma 
                          management strategy.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2011

 Mr. Schweikert submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
          to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal 
  Government should incorporate the principles of the Lean Six Sigma 
                          management strategy.

Whereas Six Sigma is a management concept developed by Motorola and was heavily 
        inspired by 6 preceding decades of quality improvement methodologies 
        such as quality control, TQM, and Zero Defects based on the work of 
        pioneers such as Shewhart, Deming, Juran, Ishikawa, Taguchi, and others;
Whereas Six Sigma seeks to identify errors with the intent of minimizing defects 
        and improving organizational outcomes;
Whereas continuous efforts to achieve stable and predictable process results are 
        of vital importance to business success;
Whereas all business and organizational processes have characteristics that can 
        be measured, analyzed, improved, and controlled;
Whereas achieving sustained quality improvement requires commitment from the 
        entire organization, particularly from top-level management;
Whereas the goal of Six Sigma is to reduce process errors to less than 3.4 
        defects per million;
Whereas 3.4 defects per million provides managers and supervisors with a metric 
        by which to judge performance improvement initiatives;
Whereas Lean Six Sigma seeks to improve business methods by increasing 
        efficiencies and eliminating waste;
Whereas Lean Six Sigma requires managers to perform a thorough analysis of 
        organizational processes to determine what outputs are desired and which 
        can be eliminated; and
Whereas Six Sigma has a number of broad applications, including the operations 
        of the United States Government: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Federal Government should incorporate the principles of Lean Six 
Sigma to reduce government spending, eliminate waste, and provide more 
efficient usage of taxpayer money and improved service to the taxpayer.
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