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A sound DFSS deployment strategy should include the principles,
goals, key results, and short- and long-term planning.

4.4.3 Principles of DFSS deployment
strategy
On the principles side of DFSS deployment, we suggest that the DFSS
community (black belts, green belts, champions, and deployment direc-
tors) will commit to the following:
■ Support their company image and mission as a highly motivated
producer of choice of world-class, innovative complete product,
process, or service solutions that lead in quality and technology and
exceed customer expectations in satisfaction and value.
■ Take pride in their work and in their contributions, both internally
within the company and externally to the industry.
■ Constantly pursue “Do it right the first time” as a means of reducing
the cost to their customers.
■ Strive to be treated as a resource, vital to both current and future
development programs and management of operations.
■ Establish and foster a partnership with subject matter experts, the
technical community within their company.
■ Treat lessons learned as a corporate source of returns and savings
through replicating solutions and processes to other relevant entities.
■ Promote the use of DFSS principles, tools, and concepts where pos-
sible at both project and day-to-day operations and promote the
data-driven decision culture, the crust of Six Sigma culture.

4.5 DFSS Deployment Strategy Goals

A variation of the following goals can be adopted:
■ Maximize the utilization of a continually growing DFSS community
by successfully closing most of the matured projects approaching the
targeted completion dates.
■ Leverage projects that address the company’s objectives, in particu-
lar the customer satisfaction targets.
■ Cluster the green belts (GBs) as a network around the black belts for
synergy and to increase the velocity of deployment [see Eq. (4.1)].
■ Ensure that DFSS lessons learned are replicated where possible,
that is, that common issues are addressed with minimal resources,
thereby maximizing momentum.