Maple Leaf Foods (A): Leading Six Sigma Change

Maple Leaf Foods is a leading global food processing company with operations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Under new management and with the desire to substantially upgrade the leadership capabilities throughout the firm, the chief executive officer and vice-president of Six Sigma (an approach and methodology for eliminating defects in any process) embarks on a revolutionary change journey in this previously change-resistant multinational food business. The project has been rolled out to three of the 10 independent operating companies, and he must analyse the launch to determine whether it is on track, and what can be done differently or better. The supplement Maple Leaf Foods (B): Six Sigma in 2002, product 9B03C001, follows the progress of the Six Sigma program a year later.