A gain nobody holds is a good quarter, not an improvement.
The name
Chido: the name, the meaning, and whose practice this is
Chido is an Igbo name from south eastern Nigeria, a Shona word in Zimbabwe, and everyday slang in Mexico. It is also the name of this practice, because it is the middle name of the man who runs it. Here is all of that, sorted out.
Chapter 1
What the name means
Chido is an Igbo name. Igbo naming, across south eastern Nigeria, builds a great many names around Chi, which carries the idea of God and of the personal divine spark a person is born with. Chidozie is usually explained as God mends or God restores. Chidinma as God is good. Chidiebere as God is merciful. Chido sits inside that family: a name in its own right, and also the short form people use for the longer ones.
The same five letters do other work elsewhere. In Shona, spoken in Zimbabwe, chido means desire, or love. In Mexican Spanish, chido is ordinary slang for good, or cool, the kind of word a teenager uses about a song. None of these borrowed from each other. They simply arrived at the same shape from different directions, which is the usual story with short names.
It is said CHEE-doh, stress on the first syllable, ch as in cheese.
Chapter 2
Whose name it is
This practice is run by Vincent Chido King, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt working with organisations in the United Kingdom. Chido is his own middle name. The practice carries it rather than an invented word assembled in a branding session, which has one practical consequence worth stating: when the work goes well, a person gets the credit, and when it does not, the same person is standing there.
What the practice does is set out elsewhere on the site in more detail than most consultancies are comfortable with. The method is Lean Six Sigma, written L6S in the trade. The case studies grade their own solutions rather than selling them. The writing says plainly where the method is the wrong tool.
Chapter 3
CHIDO, read as an acronym
Set the Igbo and the Spanish aside for a moment and read the five letters as initials. Continuous Hunting of Inefficiency, Delay and Overprocessing. That arrived after the name rather than before it, which is the honest order of events: nobody sat in a branding session and worked backwards to a Nigerian given name. It stays because it describes the work more accurately than most straplines describe anything.
Two of those words are not decoration. Delay and overprocessing are named wastes in the Lean list itself, which counts seven and usually adds an eighth for the skills an organisation never uses. Inefficiency is the umbrella the rest shelter under. Hunting is the verb because a cause is never sitting on the surface waiting to be noticed, and continuous is there because a gain that is not held was never a gain, only a good quarter.
The cause is never on the surface. It is found, and then it is tested.
Effort that buys nothing, which is the umbrella every other waste sits under.
The waiting between steps, which is usually most of your lead time.
Polish the customer cannot detect and would not pay for if they could.
Chapter 4
The written variations, all of them the same practice
The full name, as it appears on certificates, invoices and the About page.
What most clients say after the first meeting, and the form used on introductions.
The name of the practice, and the one people type into a search box.
The surname and initialled forms, as they appear in citations, directories and formal correspondence.
The trading style, used where a company name is expected rather than a person.
Used where the discipline needs naming alongside the practice: Lean Six Sigma, abbreviated L6S.
Chapter 5
The other Chidos
Honesty is cheaper than confusion, so: a search for the word alone will return things that have nothing to do with this practice. People named Chido, in Nigeria and across the diaspora. Restaurants and bars trading on the Mexican slang. A dictionary entry or two. There is no dispute here and nothing to correct. They were all using the name first, or alongside, or in another language entirely.
What distinguishes this one is the work rather than the word: Lean Six Sigma consulting, training and coaching in the United Kingdom, run by one Master Black Belt who signs his own name to it.
Chapter 6
What this Chido actually does
The method in full
Lean Six Sigma
What it is, what it fixes, how an engagement runs, and the cases where it should be refused.
The abbreviation L6S explainedWhat L6S stands for, where the number six comes from, and the belt ladder in plain words.
The person About Vincent Chido KingThe background, the qualification, and what a Master Black Belt is actually accountable for.
The proof Meridian Hospital GroupA case study where every problem is stated in the open and every solution is graded rather than sold.
The writing The blogProcess improvement, statistics and operational capability, including where the method falls down.
The first conversation Book a discovery callFree, thirty minutes, no commitment and no jargon.
Chapter 7
Questions people ask about the name
It depends which language you are standing in. In Igbo, spoken across south eastern Nigeria, names beginning with Chi carry the idea of God or of a person's own divine spark, and Chido belongs to that family, standing on its own and also serving as a short form of longer names such as Chidozie, usually explained as God mends or God restores. In Shona, spoken in Zimbabwe, chido means desire or love. In Mexican Spanish, chido is everyday slang for good or cool.
Read as initials, Continuous Hunting of Inefficiency, Delay and Overprocessing. The name came first and the acronym second, since Chido is an Igbo name and the middle name of the man who runs the practice. Delay and overprocessing are named wastes in the Lean list itself, which is why the line has held.
Yes. It is an Igbo name, and in Nigeria it reads immediately as one. It is also a given name and a family name elsewhere, and the same five letters are common slang in Mexico, which is why a search for the word alone returns restaurants, people and a dictionary entry alongside this practice.
CHEE-doh, with the stress on the first syllable and a hard ch as in cheese. The Mexican Spanish word is said much the same way. Nobody has ever got it wrong twice.
Chido is the practice of Vincent Chido King, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt based in the United Kingdom. Chido is his own middle name, so the practice carries a person rather than an invented brand word. It works with organisations on process improvement, training and operational capability.
Yes, all three refer to the same person and the same practice, along with Vincent King, V. C. King, Chido Consulting and Chido L6S. The shortest form is the one most people use after the first meeting.
Lean Six Sigma consulting, coaching and training: finding where work waits, why it varies, and what it costs, then fixing the process and leaving the organisation able to keep it fixed. The method is set out in full on the Lean Six Sigma page, and the abbreviation L6S is explained on its own page.
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