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| Article Title :: Is Six Sigma Quality Worth The Price to Your Business? |
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| The last few years have done wonders for demonstrating the power and potential offered by Six Sigma Quality, Motorola’s now famous revolutionary business design strategy.It is clear that it has become quite popular among many businesses who have undertaken the massive re-training and re-thinking of their policies and procedures in order to implement the whole new Six Sigma Quality way of functioning. What may be unclear to you is whether or not this sacrifice is worth it to your business. After all, it does take a great deal of time, effort, and often money in order to properly take on this new way of doing business.The main issue that seems to be debated among businesspe (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: The Six Sigma Process isn't Just for Big Businesses |
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| Many small and mid-sized business owners are under the impression that the Six Sigma Process is not for them as it has a reputation to cost a prohibitive amount of money for companies of their size. Though this was true when the original Six Sigma Process came to be, as it continues to grow and evolve, many smaller companies are now quite capable of affording to implement the latest development of its strategy.This more affordable Six Sigma Process is commonly called Generation III. It has been developed specifically for small to mid-sized companies who are seeking to improve their profitability through performance. Its affordability has been made possible by way of the internet (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Motorola Six Sigma Improvement, is About Training |
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| Among the main issues on the minds of today’s business execs is to achieve better results from the business. To obtain these coveted business results and improvements in the performance of the company, a focus needs to be placed on the Motorola Six Sigma training in corporations and businesses of all sizes.This is contrary to what traditional methods have dictated. Though indeed, training is a desirable element within a business, with cost cutting at such a priority, training is usually one of the first things to go, in order to make room for other more “important” priorities.With Motorola Six Sigma, on the other hand, the focus is on achieving success by improving t (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: The Six Sigma Tool and TQM are Not the Same |
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| Many business people have yet to recognize the difference between the Six Sigma tool and total quality management, also referred to as TQM. Though, at a glance, they do look rather similar, and the Six Sigma tool does indeed employ some of the techniques and strategies that are the foundation for TQM, they remain two entirely separate methods of doing business.While both the Six Sigma tool and TQM place emphasis on how critical it is to look at a business’ entire support and leadership structure from top to bottom, the similarities don’t go much further than that. It is the focus on quality that causes the confusion between total quality management and the Six Sigma tool. Bot (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma – The Customer Angle |
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| The foundation of Six Sigma is customer satisfaction and cost reduction by using various metrics and statistical tools. This is a customer-focused approach equipped with strategies and discipline at all levels of administration, planning and production. Six Sigma is aimed at achieving only 3.4 defects per million opportunities.Voice of the CustomerSix Sigma places highest priority on customer data input which provides the much-needed insight into what the customers need and what he or she is thinking about the products already on the market as a measure of performance. The design team needs to understand the requirements of the customer and predict whether the proposed (or t (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma Vs ISO 9000 |
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| The debate over whether or not to choose Six Sigma over ISO 9000 is getting more interesting with each passing day. In an attempt to determine which of these is the better of the two, it is highly pertinent to discuss that in the context of applicability of them to industries. And there exists a huge amount of difference between the approaches of these two methodologies in tackling the issues.Six Sigma – A Critical ViewSix Sigma utilizes a multi-faceted approach to doing business with total improvement of the end product being the goal. In doing so, Six Sigma defines and analyzes the processes critically almost always focusing on process improvements. The statistical tools (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma – The Historical Perspective |
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| The quest for perfection is second only to human survival instincts. These are the two reasons that were solely responsible for civilizations to flourish. That we are wearing clothes today as a symbol of the quest for perfection and innovation should reinforce this statement.Was There A Conscious Effort To Develop Six Sigma Into A Competitor To Existing Systems?This is a naïve and unfounded question, as Six Sigma was developed as independently as any other school of quality management systems. If we value the famous quote of M.K. Gandhi that the end result justifies the means, then it clarifies the need to have more than one quality system.Evolution Of Six Sigma (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma – Business Realities |
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| There are criticisms about Six Sigma which say that the methodology is an elitist technique. Through all this, Six Sigma has proven itself to be a highly effective management tool. Most of the incidences of roadblocks to Six Sigma have come from external sources. In the rare events of its failures, they are ultimately determined to have been caused by improper training of belts or Master Black Belts, not because of system errors.How the Business World Looks at Six SigmaSix Sigma is looked upon as a strategic business tool in the business circles, notwithstanding what others would like to think. However, it is regarded as the ultimate tool of improvement and profitability, ab (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Six Sigma In The Software Industry |
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| Six Sigma in manufacturing is completely understandable. For the same logic to apply to software products, it still has a long way to go to establish itself. However, for the moment it is safe to assume that there exist factors within the software industry that contribute to the shift that we discussed above. This also makes way for examples such as constant changing tools like hardware & software, decline in adherence to procedures, etc.Level of CMM© At Which Six Sigma Can Be AppliedSix Sigma needs to be applied a bit differently when it comes to software service companies. For a company intending to streamline their processes, Six Sigma contributes well by way of helping (read full article) |
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| Article Title :: Thinking Six Sigma |
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| The sole purpose behind thinking Six Sigma is the uncovering of the mystery of process variations. Six Sigma professionals, starting from top down, must combine their goals so that they all think in unison about 2 things: maximizing customer satisfaction and minimizing wastage, both of which are the essence of Six Sigma thinking.Six Sigma MindsetThe Six Sigma mindset is a special state of mind which looks at things in a rather critical way, analyzing rationally about the need for each elemental process and why and how they are what they are.Defining Six Sigma metrics and processes with customer specifications as a target of achievement brings out what can be called th (read full article) |
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