Expert perspectives on DMAIC, AI-powered coaching, and continuous improvement — by ConsusOne
July 13, 2026 · 4 min read
Part 1 argued that Lean Six Sigma measures everything except the coach. Part 2 gets concrete: the three dimensions you'd actually measure — effectiveness, responsiveness, and load — and the two rules that keep it from curdling into surveillance.
July 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Lean Six Sigma runs on one conviction: you can't improve what you don't measure. Yet we never measure the one variable that may matter most — the coach. Part 1 of a two-part look at why coaching has gone unmeasured, and why the old excuses no longer hold.
July 1, 2026 · 7 min read
Despite 20 years of explosive growth in training and certification, the Lean Six Sigma project failure rate has barely moved. That's the tell: failure isn't a knowledge problem you can train away — it's a coaching-ratio math problem. Here's the arithmetic, and why it's so hard to fix.
June 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Lean Six Sigma exists to build problem-solving capability that compounds across an organization. AI can accelerate that — or quietly spend it down. The difference between a compounding return on AI and a depreciating one comes down to a single choice: develop the practitioner, or fill in the form.
June 23, 2026 · 5 min read
The practitioners who succeed and the ones who stall learned the same methodology. The real constraint is coaching — and what you do in the gap when the coach isn't there. Here are the three things practitioners fall back on, and why each one quietly costs the project.
June 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Being "stuck" on a Lean Six Sigma project is a symptom, not a diagnosis — and being stuck in Define is a different problem from being stuck in Analyze. A Master Black Belt's phase-by-phase guide to pinpointing exactly where your DMAIC project is blocked, and the one question that clears it.
May 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Generic AI chatbots tell you your charter is 'excellent' and your root cause analysis is 'insightful.' It feels good — but an AI that's engineered to please you is exactly how continuous improvement projects lose their guardrails. Real Lean Six Sigma mastery requires a coach that challenges your thinking, not one that flatters it.
May 4, 2026 · 9 min read
AI is now part of how Lean Six Sigma work gets done — but using it as an answer-machine quietly hollows out the practitioner. New HBR research names the six forms of psychological debt, and new belts are carrying the heaviest load.
April 12, 2026 · 8 min read
With the rise of AI, many LSS practitioners are experimenting with chatbots for guidance. But generic AI lacks the coaching architecture necessary for true LSS mastery.
April 12, 2026 · 10 min read
You've invested in Lean Six Sigma certification. But what happens when you're staring at a real-world problem on a Tuesday morning, far more complex than any case study, and your next coaching session is days away?
April 13, 2026 · 12 min read
You've mastered the art of the prompt, getting great answers for individual tools. But when your DMAIC project spans weeks or months, are you still getting coaching, or just a series of disconnected conversations?
April 17, 2026 · 9 min read
AI isn't replacing Lean Six Sigma practitioners — it's reallocating them. Here's how to integrate agentic AI and automation across every DMAIC phase to amplify, not replace, human judgment.
April 19, 2026 · 5 min read
Most LSS projects stall not because the methodology fails, but because friction defeats it. Here's how AI and workflow automation can finally make the right thing to do the easy thing to do.
April 23, 2026 · 4 min read
We've hit the ceiling of what 'prompting' can achieve. The future of Lean Six Sigma AI isn't a faster chatbot — it's an engineering-grade harness that protects the Thread of Integrity from charter to control plan.
April 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Half or more of LSS projects fail to deliver or sustain their results. We blame leadership and data quality — but an overlooked bottleneck is biological: cognitive overload during the Analyze phase. Here's how to fix it.
