About
Craig Gygi is the principal consultant and managing director of CKGygi LLC. He is also the author of the blog Today’s Six Sigma and the bestselling books on the topic: Six Sigma For Dummies and its companion text, Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies.
About Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a principle-based set of tools and methods for developing and implementing rapid, data-driven solutions in critical operational areas. Continued application leads to consistently repeated, breakthrough improvement in margin, quality, and efficiency. more>
About Lean
Lean—or the Toyota Production System (TPS), as it’s sometimes called—is a collection of techniques for thinking, organizing, and performing work that cause hidden waste to be illuminated. With the waste uncovered, a company can devise long-term strategies to reduce or eliminate it. more>
About BPM
Business Process Management (BPM) is the larger framework into which principle-based improvement methods like Six Sigma and Lean fit. BPM comprises the design, implementation, improvement, and management of the collective processes and activities of an organization. more>
About Today’s Six Sigma Blog
Craig Gygi’s blog, Today’s Six Sigma, explores how the inherent principles within Six Sigma, Lean, and BPM can be leveraged by organizations and individuals to achieve lasting improvement. more>
About Craig Gygi
Craig Gygi began studying and applying the elements of Six Sigma, Lean, and BPM before they were formalized into today’s renowned improvement methods. As an engineering graduate student at Brigham Young University in the early 1990s, he integrated these improvement techniques into his research and coaching of student product development teams. Upon beginning his career in 1994 at Motorola’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Lab in Florida, he was officially introduced to the just-formalized Six Sigma method. It resonated deeply with his previous findings. From that time, Craig has applied, taught, and led Six Sigma in all his endeavors, including technical, management, and executive capacities at Motorola, Iomega, General Atomics, and Fiji Water.
In 1998, Craig founded TolStack, Inc. to develop commercial Six Sigma software tools. During this time he also worked for several years as a technical colleague of Dr. Mikel Harry, the original consultant of Six Sigma, co-developing and teaching new advances in its theory and application. In 2002, Craig co-founded Savvi International, into which TolStack merged. Savvi provided solutions for business performance improvement using Six Sigma, Lean, and BPM techniques. Craig acted as the director of Savvi’s products, services, and tools. In 2006, Craig lived in the Fiji Islands and served as Director of Operational Excellence for Fiji Water. Today, Craig works with companies in the USA and internationally to integrate Six Sigma practices directly into their core operations.
A Master Black Belt, Craig has wielded Six Sigma, Lean, and BPM techniques now for over 16 years, spanning projects from design to manufacturing to business process management, and at companies as varied as Abbott Labs, American Express, and the US Air Force. He is also an expert teacher, having instructed and mentored at all levels.
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