How Executive MBA Students Transformed a Construction Startup with Lean Six Sigma

By Amber Bonefont | 02/11/2026

Tags: Executive-Education | Podcasts
Categories: Academics | Students

 


A group of four executive MBA students drove operational change for a South Florida construction start-up by applying Lean Six Sigma principles. 

What started out as a capstone project for an executive MBA class led by Dr. Tres Bishop turned into a soon to be published case study in th Quality Progress from the American Society for Quality, one of the leading practitioner journals.

"Most of the time, you see the surface-level issues, like the process taking too long or messy communication. I thought the team did an excellent job of going beyond that and identifying deeper problems: unclear processes, unclear ownership, and not knowing who owns what and when," Bishop said.

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