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Study on Introducing Six Sigma Theory in the Library for Service
Competitiveness Enhancement |
The purpose of this study is to search for applications of Six Sigma
as a solution for efficient knowledge management. 2006 |
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Applying Six Sigma Techniques to Human Capital Management |
By borrowing a few basic analytic techniques from six sigma, it is
possible to identify, with considerable precision, the unique
people-related drivers of an organization's business results. |
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Beyond Six Sigma |
Everything has a life cycle, be it a natural or physical process, a
framework for process improvement, or a management fad.
Consequently, despite any real success it may have enjoyed to the
present, Six Sigma is going to have to evolve to maintain currency
and effectiveness. So what is next.... Ten Sigma? |
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Costs And Savings |
The financial benefits of implementing Six Sigma at your company can
be significant. This article include real data from real companies. |
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Deployment Failures |
This article defines the term failure from a company's viewpoint,
and discusses the reasons why Six Sigma deployment failures can
occur. Learn to identify failures before they happen to your company |
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Design for Six Sigma |
For the majority of organizations, long-term success is tied
directly to the new product development process. This is the key to
Design For Six Sigma (DFSS). |
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Fact Sheet |
Just that. pdf-file |
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FAQs |
on What? Where? Why? How? And Who? |
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How
To Compare Six Sigma, Lean and the Theory of Constraints |
A framework for choosing what’s best for your organization. |
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Identifying Six Sigma Projects |
Here are tens of ideas for identifying issues in your organization
and function. These ideas can then be evaluated and formalized into
project charters which will allow you to prioritize for
implementation. |
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Incorporating Six Sigma into New Product Development(NPD) at
Motorola |
Authors Dan Tegel and Rick Kriva explain how Motorola, creator of
Six Sigma, is using Six Sigma for Product Development (SSPD) and the
benefits the company expects to derive. |
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Integrating Innovation into Design for Six Sigma |
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Is
Six Sigma Falling Short Of Expectations? |
Yes. Companies expect to use Six Sigma to identify and creatively
solve their problems, but that's not what it was designed to do. By
Michael Tatham vs. No. Six Sigma can help you examine your
business processes, grow closer to your customers, increase your
productivity, and reap returns. By Neal Mackertich |
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Keystone of Lean Six Sigma: Strong Middle Management |
Many companies embarking on Lean efforts find that their
organization is too rigid and top-down to support the management
principles of Lean and Six Sigma. How to create the needed
flexibility? 2007 |
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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma |
Best Practices -- Where Lean Meets Six Sigma -- Bringing the two
concepts together delivers faster results. |
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Lean Six Sigma for the manufacturing industry |
Lean Six Sigma has gained widespread popularity as a methodology for
improving both factory output and quality. But for every success
story there are tales of dissatisfaction from companies whose Lean
Six Sigma efforts failed to deliver. Manufacturers are finding an
upfront diagnostic X-ray improves their odds of streamlining
operations and cutting costs. pdf. 2008 |
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Lean Six Sigma for the services industry |
Lean Six Sigma's growing popularity in the services industry masks a
downside. Many organizations have invested a great deal only to see
little value result from their work. An upfront diagnostic X-ray
helps companies get more from their efforts. |
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Process Reliability and Six Sigma |
Pdf-file |
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Robust Design (Taguchi Method) |
Robust Design method, also called Taguchi Method, pioneered by Dr.
Genichi Taguchi, greatly improves engineering productivity by
consciously considering the noise factors and the cost of failure to
ensure customer satisfaction |
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Seeking innovation in a Six-Sigma Project by applying TRIZ theory |
Six-Sigma is famous for its rigorous logic based on data, which is
also the reason why R&D engineers cast doubts on Six-Sigma: does
data give birth to everything? For example, How to generate a good
idea in the phase of Improvement? Pdf-file 191 KB. 2005 |
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Six
Sigma and the Mobile Workforce |
Among organizations that have tried using Six Sigma in field sales
and service, many have reached for IT solutions, such as sales force
automation (SFA) systems. Technology does have a key role to play,
but technology-only solutions are limited because they do not
address the other factors that conspire against the use of Six Sigma
in mobile workforces. pdf-file |
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Six
Sigma at GE |
Information about Six Sigma in general and how GE applies it |
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Six
Sigma Comes to IT |
Six Sigman can most definitely be applied to IT. |
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Six
Sigma Deployment |
Six Sigma deployment success is built on an infrastructure
foundation. Learn to align projects to business strategy, and use a
balanced DMAIC framework as your key to successful Six Sigma
deployment |
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Six
Sigma Goes Corporate |
After years as a manufacturing-process whiz kid, Six Sigma is
gaining new luster as a tool in business-process planning. And IT
can play a key role. |
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Six
Sigma Primer For CPAs |
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Six
Sigma Trends |
Next Generation of Projects. March 2002 |
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Small and Medium Sized Businesses |
This article discusses an approach for successfully (and
practically) implementing Six Sigma in small and medium-sized
companies |
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Starting a Six Sigma Initiative |
What can an organization establishing an Office of Six Sigma/Quality
learn from the companies which have been most successful at setting
up such offices? How did those companies go about it and with how
many people typically? |
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The
Mists of Six Sigma |
Alan Ramias, a member of the Motorola Training and Education Center
in the eighties, recitates of some of the myths versus the
realities, from his personal point of view. pdf-file |
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Training Methods for Six Sigma |
Examines the benefits of each training approach against available
resources.
It is essential to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of
training methods that lead to certification and implementation of
Lean Six Sigma and related methodologies. This is necessary for any
organization to ensure alignment not only with all operational
processes, but equally important, the entire enterprise. |
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Using Lean, Six Sigma, and SCOR To Improve Competitiveness |
The dominant improvement methods in use today are Lean
Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and the SCOR (Supply Chain Operations
Reference) model. All three methods can help a company achieve
business improvements, but none of them can be used alone to
complete the competitiveness cycle. |
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What Is Six Sigma? - The Roadmap to Customer Impact |
GE explains its approach to Six Sigma. pdf-file |
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