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- Six Sigma Success Criteria- Are You Ready?
- Undertaking a Six Sigma program is a major organizational commitment that must meaningfully involve top management to be successful. Committing to Six Sigma means devoting significant time and resources. Not all organizations are ready for such a commitment. The article is intended to help think about some of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Software Metrics Maturity
- From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma brings sharp focus on customer and business requirements and the defects connected with the failure to satisfy them. When Six Sigma was first started, this meant shifting from the common manufacturing ‘yield' metric1, which tracks defective ‘units' to the more detailed view of defect...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Integrating Improvement Initiatives
- From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma is an approach to product and process improvement that has gained wide acceptance and has delivered large business benefits across many industries. As application of this framework spreads to software development we must consider how Six Sigma relates to and can be integrated with...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Success Criteria - Are You Ready?
- Undertaking a Six Sigma program is a major organizational commitment that must meaningfully involve top management to be successful. Committing to Six Sigma means devoting significant time and resources. Not all organizations are ready for such a commitment. This paper is to inculcate some of the success criteria to help...
- White papers 2002-05-10
- Six Sigma Evolution for Software Systems
- Companies participating in Six Sigma Research Institute realized that beyond the early gains in manufacturing, there was special leverage in design - and that realization extended to software and services as well. As it became clear that success was about more than the absence of negatives like defects and delays...
- White papers 2003-03-24
- Integrating Improvement Initiatives: Connecting Six Sigma for Software, CMMI, Personal Software Process (PSP), and Team Software Process (TSP)
- Six Sigma is an approach to product and process improvement that has gained wide acceptance and has delivered large business benefits across many industries. This article describes Six Sigma and several widely used software improvement initiatives in terms of their relationships to one another - how they are similar, and...
- White papers 2003-03-21
Additional Resources
- Six Sigma Advantage, Inc. and iSixSigma Partner To Advance Software Quality Through Focused Six Sigma Portal
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROCKLAND, Mass. and RIDGEFIELD, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 25, 2003 Six Sigma Advantage, Inc. and iSixSigma LLC today announced a strategic alliance to launch an internet portal focused specifically on the software and IT application of Six Sigma -- a rigorous, data-driven method for process and quality...
- Research articles 2003-03-25
- Revitalizing Six Sigma: What Matters Most to the Business
- Honeywell began its Six Sigma journey in 1995 to drive databased decision-making, ensure quality levels, and improve customer satisfaction. Through training, leadership, and senior management support, Honeywell has developed a successful Six Sigma program. However, the progress did not happen overnight and has been recently re-energized to create a more...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Implementing Six Sigma: Part I
- This paper discusses about the Six Sigma implementation issues and about the background of Six Sigma. A good Six Sigma business strategy involves the measurement of how well business processes meet their objectives and offers strategies to make needed improvements. The application of the techniques to all functions results in...
- White papers 1999-06-01
- Six Sigma For Healthy Businesses, Part I
- This article reviews the basic goals and methodology of a Six-Sigma program. It's a long-term cultural commitment designed to deliver maximized efficiency and minimized waste in a growing organization. It requires the patience to develop a long-term, proactive business focus, rather than a reactive one. Six Sigma is only for...
- White papers 2003-10-21
- Six Sigma For The Service Sector
- This article examines that why many organizations, which have looked at Six Sigma's track record, have surmised that it won't work for them. While some have leaped towards Six Sigma and have witnessed the results first-hand. Often referred to as "transactional Six Sigma," the methodology is proving to be a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Promoting Customer Satisfactions by Applying Six Sigma: An Example From the Automobile Industry
- This article integrates Kano's five quality mechanisms (1984), Maslow's hierarchy of human requirements (1954), and Herzberg's dual factors theory (Herzberg, Mausner, and Snyderman 1959), and combined this with the concept of the human-machine system and thus defined a thinking procedure map using quality mechanism questionnaire items. This customer requirement-pull model...
- White papers 2005-09-27
- Six Sigma Quality Management and Desirable Laboratory Precision
- There is a key issue relative to managing inventories at companies with multiple warehouses or stocking branches. The key advantage to having inventory decisions take place locally is that personnel are aware of local factors and upcoming events. They are in a position to anticipate special promotions that may be...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Using Corporate Scorecards to Regain Competitive Advantage From Performance Improvement Initiatives
- Most major companies now routinely and regularly undertake performance improvement initiatives using Six Sigma or other powerful methodologies designed to translate better performance into solid business and financial results. As a result, such programs no longer confer the competitive advantages they once did. They have become, in effect, simply a...
- White papers 2005-11-11
- Lean Thinking, Value Analysis, and Six Sigma -- Cost Reduction structured for Market Growth
- The long-term viability of a company's business plan depends on sustaining its Competitive advantage is usually achieved through developing new products and services that satisfy and delight customers and through restructuring and improving business processes to improve quality and reduce costs -- adding Value. The application of the Brecker Product...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Using the Six-Sigma DMAIC Methodology to Improve Wafer Fab Productivity
- In today's economy and highly competitive market companies are seeking to maximize their asset utilization. For those Fabs that still operate in the US it is essential that asset utilization is maximized to generate the best possible cost and to take advantage of increased capacity to capture market share. Intersil...
- Case studies
- Apriso to Speak at Lean and Six Sigma Defense Conference
- Presentation Will Demonstrate the Power of Complementing Continuous Improvement Programs with Technology Systems to Enhance, Optimize and Sustain Performance Benefits Apriso Corporation:[TABLE OMITTED] About Apriso Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling manufacturing organizations...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- Getting to the Root of a Problem
- Organizations often respond to financial and market imperatives by resolving problems with short-term solutions. Often, there are procedures in place to guide people's actions so that they spend minimal time on original thinking and then focus on the immediate requirements of the job. However, constantly relying on quick fixes requires...
- Articles 2007-10-11
- Well Done. Now Go Away | BTalk Australia
- (9min 03) The incentive market is an important part of the travel business, but does it work? If you want to make people perform why not just give them more cash? In today's BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Richard Froggatt, a Director of NGT Travel in...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- A Dual Concept for Long-Term Success
- In the typical Six Sigma approach, about 1% of staff becomes Black Belts BBs, while others become Green Belts or something similar. The remaining 90 to 95% perhaps get a half- or full-day training session but are normally not really involved in improvement processes. The involvement of the other 90...
- White papers 2005-09-09
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