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Welcome to this, the first issue of the Six Sigma City Magazine. As change professionals we are all involved in the process of managing change within our respective organisations, but how many of us embrace change in our own careers? How many of us are continually searching for the improvements in our own performance that will take us to the next level? As Director of Operations for SigmaPro in the UK, my role involves developing the business and managing the growth involved. That means dealing with new people, new clients, new partners, new products on an ongoing basis. If we’re honest, sometimes all this change sometimes seems too much, yet our ability to deal rapidly with change, and accommodate its effects, is often the difference between success and failure. If you examine the quality articles in this magazine, in all of them you will find the change subject discussed. Moore in his article on Scotland discusses the changing industrial situation, with the decline in silicon glen, but the growth in financial services, in amongst it all six sigma is thriving. The much quoted GE is again referred to as an organisation that looked not only at its businesses and the need to change and develop them, but also kept the change programmes themselves under review and made changes to enhance and improve them with the addition of the Define phase to the MAIC cycle. Lean Sigma itself is of course a combination of Six Sigma and Lean, brought together by practitioners who recognised the common themes of both, but also the differences, and the fact that combining them made a much stronger approach to business improvement. As individuals we must also be looking continually to review and improve our own performance in the roles we carry out, the inspect-a-gadget articles will give useful hints and tips from people who have tried and tested new technologies in their own roles and found them useful (or otherwise). Have a look at their findings and save yourself the trouble of doing all that testing!

So, welcome once again to this the first issue of the Six Sigma City magazine, as change professionals you’ll be reviewing the articles for potential ideas for your own roles and future careers. Think also about how you personally can manage the change in performance in your own roles, and respond rapidly to the change required to get to the next level. Enjoy the magazine

Chris D. Rees
Director UK Operations
SigmaPro Limited
editor@sixsigmacity.com