Buffalo, NY – September 2019 – Buffalo headquartered Meliora Consulting, a leading provider of continuous improvement consulting services and Six Sigma training, and a subsidiary of Employer Services Corporation (ESC), has named Tim Cunningham as a new partner.

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Frequency plots are a visual tool used to analyze numerical data by showing the pattern of how often different values occur.  Frequency plots provide us with a picture of the shape, range, and center of the data, as well as where the data falls relative to targets or s...

Buffalo, NY – January 2019 –Meliora Consulting LLC, a process improvement consulting firm, names Rachael Brown as Director of Business Development. Brown will also retain her role as Director of Business Development for Employer Services Corporation (ESC), the parent c...

Meliora will be hosting Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training in 2019!  Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is a four-week intensive course for internal leaders with a proven history of success and excellent interpersonal skills who will lead project teams within their org...

In a previous blog post, we discussed the two types of variation: common cause and special cause.  In order to take appropriate actions to reduce variation in our processes, we need to be able to differentiate between common cause and special cause.  Reduced variation...

An Individuals Chart is a tool to monitor variation in a process with continuous data over time.  Individuals charts can be used to monitor variables such as costs, temperature, number of invoices processed, amount of waste generated, and more.  When you create an Indi...

A process map is a visual tool that documents a series of steps taken to achieve a result. Because they are visual, process maps convey information more effectively than written procedures or descriptions of processes. Process mapping can portray the current state, use...

What is Brainstorming?

Brainstorming is a creative method of generating a large volume of ideas free from criticism.  Brainstorming was developed in the 1940s by an advertising executive who was frustrated with his employees.  The employees were unable to individually d...

It is impossible to be part of an organization and not attend meetings.  Many meetings are poorly run and waste people’s valuable, limited time.  A facilitator is someone who provides methods and tools that help team members to use their time efficiently in meetings....