... high performance. Kuwait Small to medium‐sized enterprises Manufacturing industries Critical success factors Lean systems Kuwaiti small and medium‐sized manufacturing industries Lean assessment framework Lean readiness level In the last decade, lean systems (LS) have made...

... improvement project in a UK, make‐to‐order, small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME). Findings There is a great deal of congruence (consistency) between Six Sigma's critical success factors and the antecedents of successful organizational change. Addressing people's “soft” skills (e.g. commitment...

...Sunil V. Deshmukh; Ashish Chavan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to capture the evolution and status of utilization of the Six Sigma philosophy in the development of small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as to document prominent development of practices through a systematic...

..., production manager, purchasing, supply chain managers, quality manager, HR manager, etc. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Six Sigma Small to medium‐sized enterprises Over recent years, UK manufacturing industry has faced increasing competition from low‐labour cost countries...