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Six Sigma: 5 Reasons Why Big Business Is Going Geek
Businesses always want to cut down on costs, improve profits, and drive the bottom line. Yet, increasingly companies are learning that the traditional practices just won’t cut it anymore. They are turning to Six Sigma, which applies statistical practices to management, to get their answers. But Six Sigma is little more than a geek’s approach […]
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P.F. Chang’s Simple Recipe for Profits
Newsweek Voices – Daniel Gross | Newsweek.com. Newsweek reports that P.F. Chang’s has bucked the trend of other restaurants by not only opening new stores, it has also increased its profits by 38 percent compared to first quarter 2008. According to Co-CEO Rick Federico, P.F. Changs has done this by focusing its attention on identifying […]
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City Uses Six Sigma to Promote Efficiency
Spokesman.com | City adds job to promote efficiency | May 27, 2009. Spokane, Washington has acted to be smart in its cost-cutting efforts by hiring a full time change agent to look at how Lean Six Sigma can help them make smart cuts. Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that has proven itself in countless […]
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SPC and Global Warming Part II
On a previous post, I presented an SPC analysis of global temperature change that indicated a special cause of variation affecting the temperature data. While theories abound to explain the temperature increase, I will explore only three: urbanization, or the “heat island” effect; carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere due to human activities; and the sunspot […]
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Six Sigma Is Primarily a Management Program
In the 1970s, Motorola learned about quality the hard way—by being consistently beaten in the competitive marketplace. When a Japanese firm took over a Motorola factory that manufactured television sets in the United States, it promptly set about making drastic operational changes. Under Japanese management, the factory was soon producing TV sets with 1/20th the […]
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SPC and Global Warming Part I
In the world of work, people have a natural tendency to become emotionally involved in their jobs. This is vital if they are to take pride in their accomplishments and do quality work. However, this involvement also makes it difficult for most people to see problems in their work. SPC benefits users by directing attention […]
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Six Sigma Project Guidelines in Plain English
Define the project In this phase you will select a good project and describe it in detail. A good project is one that will have an impact on something important to the organization, requires the Six Sigma skill set, and has a good chance of succeeding. To determine this you need to link your project […]
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Tough Times and Lean Six Sigma
Although I’ve spent my entire career working in the quality and process improvement fields, my undergraduate degree is in economics. I learned that economic cycles are normal, although that’s not to say that they’re uncaused or that the pain created during economic downturns isn’t real. Economic downturns result when there is an imbalance of some […]
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Project Selection for DMAIC | Quality Digest
Project Selection for DMAIC | Quality Digest. As a Quality Digest columnist I tend to be a reader of their other authors, too. This month’s Inside Six Sigma article from Steven Ouellette, The Six Sigma Heretic, provides a pretty good overview of important things to consider when choosing a Six Sigma project. But there’s one […]
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Study: Ford Quality Rivaling Japanese Counterparts – Industry Headlines – Quality
Study: Ford Quality Rivaling Japanese Counterparts – Industry Headlines – Quality. Ford Motor Co. surpassed Honda in initial vehicle quality for the first time and reached new levels of customer satisfaction with vehicle quality, according to a 2009 U.S. Global Quality Research System (GQRS) survey conducted for Ford by RDA Group of Bloomfield Hills, MI. Ford […]