Baseball Stats And The Six Sigma Edge

When it comes to numbers, baseball can definitely be related to Six Sigma due to . . . statistics. Many people don't consider the level of technical detail involved in baseball statistics, but anyone who has ever been involved in a Six Sigma project can easily see the correlation between the two.

Baseball is just another name for America's favorite pastime. These names mean the same to many young fans who collect the sports cards with the important stats on each player and their team. Mastering the terms and technical aspects of this well loved game as every faithful fan knows, will give you more insight as to what was going on during any game. Player stats such as fielding percentages and RBI's holds valuable information, even for math students struggling to pass this required class and beating the odds.

The stats of the Six Sigma Process and your company work in much the same way. Six Sigma Process can give you important business operational stats and get you very detailed information about each step of the process you are using and if it is effective or if something needs to be changed. Another way of looking at this is imagining the Six Sigma Process is like a'box score' for your company's production and progress. Spending time gathering ideas of how to develop a method of project progress for each project;or in baseball game terms "keeping score", will ensure better than expected success.

It is easy to see how a baseball game is a good example of how success is structured; whether it is a game or a business. Baseball just happens to have nine innings, three outs and three strikes as part of its structure. This can easily be transferred to a business when dealing with customers, but it might take a little more than nine innings to get the desired results. Businesses with a very tight structure, have learned to use structure to their advantage and make it part of a successful winning strategy.

If your business is in need of change and improvements that a structured approach could possible help; using the game of baseball to help gain insight as to the possibilities that the Six Sigma Process has to offer is a good place to start. Your current business level will need to be determined to understand what your objective is, what kind of score you are currently rated at and what, if any, backup plan you have in place. Improving your game is what you can expect with Six Sigma Projects. Six Sigma Programs produce winners who enter and finish the game like a fast ball that's too hot too handle.