Many big companies, including Honeywell and Textron, have their own internal ‘brands’ of Six Sigma that have been tailored to their line of business and oftentimes combined with Lean, another manufacturing technique designed to weed out non-value-adding sub-processes.
Other organizations fine-tune the DMAIC model as needed. Chase Financial, for example, added a step called ‘implement’. Based in Bangalore, India, Wipro is one of the largest IT services and product engineering companies in the world. It has more than 100,000+ employees and 70+ delivery centers in 55+ countries.