By na - The application of the basic Six Sigma concept now goes beyond its original area of defect reduction to emphasise business process improvement in general. Thus Six Sigma programmes may include cost reduction, cycle-time improvement, increased customer satisfaction - and any other metric important to the company. Thus, Six Sigma now implies a whole toolbox and a whole culture of improvement - using a variety of tools and statistical methodologies to improve the bottom line of companies ^new (Added: 19-Jan-2006 Hits: 66 )

By Ritesh Chatterjee - How does an organization manage the Six Sigma process for delivering outstanding Business Results? Ritesh Chatterjee provides his top 10 lessons learned for deploying Six Sigma within a business or organization. ^new (Added: 19-Jan-2006 Hits: 79 )

By David L. Hallowell - With the complexity of many of the tools in the Six Sigma kit, it is easy to look at tree diagrams as fairly simple and routine. Experience shows, though, that there are enough pitfalls encountered and benefits missed that it is worth consolidating a few time-won guidelines and tips about applying them and explanations on subtle ways they can become inadvertently blurred with one another. The focus here is on four kinds of "trees" or hierarchical diagrams that become part of many Six Sigma projects: ^new (Added: 19-Jan-2006 Hits: 92 )

By Kim Niles - Is Six Sigma just the latest management buzzword or is Six Sigma a Quality Management program that really works? Six Sigma does have a few new twists. These new twists make Six Sigma different enough to exist on its own and are what makes Six Sigma work much better than any other quality methodology of the past. Six Sigma only appears to be a little different than TQM in terms of Quality tools, techniques, and principles, but from a global perspective it's a whole new animal for the following reasons (in order of importance)... ^new (Added: 18-Jan-2006 Hits: 57 )