Can Six-Sigma solve the obesity crisis?
When the Covid19 pandemic is no longer the prime burden on our health service, the NHS might be able to refocus on the three concerns that threatened to overwhelm it in 2019: heart disease, cancer and obesity.
With the fat producing process being well-understood (compared with the extreme complexity of cancer and heart disease), could Six-Sigma blackbelts play a role in creating a new approach to solving the problem of obesity?
Six-Sigma: the good, the bad and the unhealthy
Speaker: Roland Caulcutt
When the Covid19 pandemic is no longer the prime burden on our health service, the NHS might be able to refocus on the three concerns that threatened to overwhelm it in 2019. Namely, heart disease, cancer and obesity.
Whilst the NHS can reasonably claim to have made progress with the first two, it is faced with an ever-increasing proportion of the population being overweight/obese. To non-clinical members of society this may seem rather surprising, considering the relative simplicity of the fat producing process, compared with the extreme complexity of cancer and heart disease. It may seem even more surprising to the many statisticians and process improvement professionals who witnessed the great success of blackbelts improving organisational processes whilst working within a culture of “Six-Sigma”.
This presentation will explain why many blackbelts have had such amazing success by improving organisational processes many of which had a history of chronic under-performance. It will suggest how the blackbelt way of working can be adapted to improve processes within the human body. It will offer an approach that might reduce the ever-increasing level of overweight that has blighted so many lives.
Neil Spencer on behalf of the Business and Industrial Section