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- Six Sigma Strategies: Creating Excellence in the Workplace
- A true Six Sigma organization produces not only excellent product but also maintains highly efficient production and administrative systems that work effectively with the company's other service processes. However, not every organization takes this holistic approach. Production processes still may run at low yields with high scrap ratios and defects....
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Does Six Sigma Work in Smaller Companies?
- The article tries to illustrate the happenings and features of different level of Six-Sigma. Most companies today operate at a Sigma Level between three sigma and four sigma, where the cost of quality is 15 to 25% of revenue. As the company moves to Six Sigma Quality Levels, their Cost...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- HPFO Quality: An ISO Foundation For A Six Sigma Organization
- The ISO certification program is one of the most widely known quality certifications in use today. ISO has its share of proponents, without doubt, but practitioners of Six Sigma are usually not among them. People in the Six Sigma world often deride ISO certification as something pursued by 'ordinary' companies,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Managing Teams and Six Sigma
- Managing a Six Sigma team is a considerable responsibility. Six Sigma is a team process and requires cooperation at many levels. No one person can manage a Six Sigma project on their own. Just as it is the organization that benefits from Six Sigma, it is the organization that truly...
- White papers
- The Six Sigma Method and Design of Experiments
- Six Sigma is becoming a proven approach for businesses and organizations to improve their performance. The spectrum of companies actively engaging in Six Sigma today is wide from industrials. Once the organization has created their own vision of Six Sigma, the business leaders need to define their organization's objectives in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Is Six Sigma Just For Large Companies? What About Small Companies?
- If the executive team is not able to establish Six Sigma Quality initiative, then it indicates the failure of entire staff of the organization. It is important for an organization to take feedback from employees regarding their support towards the Six Sigma policy. The process would generate varied reactions, but...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Implementing Six Sigma
- "The article focuses on question : How can you make quality part of the culture, not just the procedure? Six Sigma was developed originally by Motorola to pursue the target : completely satisfying customer needs profitably. Six Sigma describes the criteria as proven box of powerful tools and strict...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Six Sigma as a Way to Develop People
- One of the many benefits of Six Sigma is how it helps to develop people. The dual processes of Six Sigma training and Six Sigma projects cultivate excellence in not only product quality and financial savings but also in the knowledge, confidence, and quality of the people in organization. To...
- White papers
- Six Sigma
- Six Sigma is a business strategy towards reducing defects in organizational systems, processes, and products. It entails setting very high objectives, analyzing present results, comparing the same with the benchmark set, and accordingly fine tuning the product, process, or system at hand. The Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control process...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Introducing New Employees to Concepts of Six Sigma
- A brief, well-organized presentation can be an effective method to introduce new employees to the concepts of Six Sigma, and at the same time stimulate interest and future participation in Six Sigma projects. Developing such an orientation is relatively easy. Most organizations already have an "elevator speech" 'the proverbial one-minute...
- White papers
- Compensation and Six Sigma Black Belts
- One of the more ambiguous elements of a Six Sigma project is the level and type of compensation the organization should give to its Six Sigma leaders and team members. On the one hand, setting compensation is not an integral part of any stage of a Six Sigma project; on...
- White papers
- Six Sigma Goes Corporate
- The Six Sigma theory encourages the adoption of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control DMAIC approach within an organization. The approach helps in improving the overall performance of the organization. Sigma indicates how far a process has deviated from perfection. Six Sigma encourages quality and contributes in the growth and...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Six Sigma's Unique Infrastructure
- "Some people contend that Six Sigma adds nothing new to the technical toolkit used to improve business processes. Past improvement initiatives such as TQM certainly share a great deal with Six Sigma: Six Sigma's infrastructure creates formally defined change agent positions filled by people who possess technical knowledge about the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Front Line: Yellow Belts Play Crucial Role in Sustaining Six Sigma Efforts
- Yellow Belts Play crucial role in Sustaining Six Sigma Efforts. Black Belts are a reasonably scarce resource within an organization. They are, by design, problem finders and solvers. Ultimately, however, their role is to move across the organization, applying their advanced skills to as many unique problems as can be...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Six Sigma Case Study: Converting Paper to Electronic Documents
- This article contains a project which was taken up as a demonstration example within the framework of building a Six Sigma mind-set in the organization, while training a core group in the use of the techniques and the teamwork required. The problem solving methodology consisted of seven steps, combined with...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Choosing a Six Sigma project
- As the name of article states how to choose six sigma project, here are some questions to help technical communicators choose projects that can utilize their particular skills and satisfy the rigors of the Six Sigma processes. Some come to Six Sigma, others have Six Sigma thrust upon them. This...
- White papers 2002-01-17
- Six Sigma for Global Competitiveness
- Six sigma is a fundamental approach to delivering very high levels of customer satisfaction through disciplined use of data and statistical analysis for maximizing and sustaining business success. It will energize your organization and will bring about a strategic shift in thinking and participation by all employees. It is an...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Beginning a Six Sigma Quality Effort?
- Many companies are beginning to take a fresh look at quality in their organizations, and Six Sigma is leading the way. Six Sigma is a way of measuring the reliability of your work processes in meeting expectations for quality and customer service, and for enhancing an organization's bottom line. Six...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- JMP for Six Sigma: Analytic Software for Maximizing Organizational Productivity
- JMP software offers professionals seeking breakthrough improvements in quality the most capable, integrated toolset for achieving Six Sigma performance. JMP is like a statistical pocket knife, useful to a broad audience in your organization. It offers comprehensive capabilities for defining, measuring, analyzing, improving, and controlling critical aspects of your business....
- White papers 2004-06-29
- Applying Lean Six Sigma to Service
- Although both Six Sigma and Lean Flow have their roots in manufacturing, it works just as effectively in service industries. Much of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing and many service organization managers are wondering how they can achieve the tremendous process improvement benefits of...
- White papers
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