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Inc.
August 2008 |
Ask Bob Galvin Applying Six Sigma principles to service firms.   |
BusinessWeek
December 4, 2006
Roger O. Crockett |
Six Sigma Still Pays Off At Motorola Motorola is thriving, with a culture that lets left-brain and right-brain types coexist. |
CIO
December 1, 2003
Tracy Mayor |
Targeting Perfection: Six Sigma Comes to IT Six Sigma is a defect reduction methodology that forces organizations to focus on the quality of the customer experience. And it can most definitely be applied to information technology. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Steve Minter |
Six Sigma's Growing Pains The popular quality methodology pays a price for not being a panacea. |
CIO
August 15, 2003
Edward Prewitt |
Six Sigma Comes to IT Once confined to manufacturing groups, the quality improvement program called Six Sigma is now being used to clean up IT's act. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2009
Burnsed & Thornton |
Six Sigma Makes a Comeback With the outlook for sales growth dim, everyone from Target to Cadbury to Merck is turning to Six Sigma to squeeze out more savings. |
CRM
October 18, 2004
Jason Compton |
Six Sigma Returns to CRM Companies are applying this statistical business improvement methodology to sales and marketing processes, looking for those characteristics of an opportunity that have the greatest chance of success, or those leads that show the hallmarks of quality. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2002
Jill Jusko |
Best Practices -- Prevention Is The Cure While Six Sigma tackles products or processes that already are flawed, Design For Six Sigma aims to create new products or processes that are nearly perfect right from the start. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Toyota Doubles Down on Japan While economic forces dictate more overseas plants, Toyota has recommitted to domestic production -- for economic, political, and institutional reasons. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer of the Year, Division III Quick company stats of Sigma Financial Corp. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009 |
Letters to the Editor For June 2009 Six Sigma debate continues... Manufacturing and manufacturing incentives are the only way out of this financial mess.... |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Six Sigma, Lean Come Together More companies these days are looking for candidates who demonstrate a mix of lean and Six Sigma skills. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Risky Business Pays Off Risk/reward thinking is driving today's turnaround successes. Winning requires transitioning from risk takers to risk shapers. |
IndustryWeek
July 11, 2012 |
Mexico Works for Siemens Division Chief Siemens Mesoamerica CEO touts Mexico's educated workforce as one of the reasons the country could replace China as a preferred U.S. sourcing location. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2007
David Welch |
Staying Paranoid At Toyota Fearful of "big-company disease," Toyota keeps scrambling to retool itself. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2010
John Rosevear |
A Real Problem for Toyota Those recalls? Forget 'em -- Toyota has a real problem now. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Steve Minter |
Critical Success Factors The purpose of the Six Sigma projects is to make the company more efficient and competitive not to reduce their numbers. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2008
John Teresko |
How to Organize for Lean/Six Sigma To enable the maximum potential of lean/Six Sigma efforts, focus on more than the factory floor. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2001
Doug Bartholomew |
Cost Vs Quality Must quality take a haircut when manufacturers aggressively trim costs? |
IndustryWeek
June 17, 2009
William A. Levinson |
Consider This -- Henry Ford's Proven Lessons for American Industry In their quest to understand lean and quality principles, manufacturers need look no further than to the father of the automobile production system. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Steve Minter |
MAG Giddings & Lewis MAG's CEO says Six Sigma fails since companies often picking the wrong people for Black Belts, don't follow the define, measure, analyze, improve, control process and don't have the necessary executive leadership and commitment. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2011
Shubh Datta |
Toyota: Uncertainty Looms Ahead Toyota saw a decline in its profits by a whopping 77% in its last fiscal quarter. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2010
David Welch |
Toyota's Recalls: A Tough Road Back Why Toyota may take years to win back the confidence of car buyers, assuming the flurry of recalls is over. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2009
Anders Bylund |
How Sigma Plans to Rule Your Couch Its CopperGate acquisition gives Sigma Designs a whole new arsenal of tasty technologies that could become a growth catalyst in a year or two. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Ranking Continuous Improvement Methods Lean manufacturing tops the list of responses to a survey about continuous improvement programs. |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Seriously, You Need to Know This Growth Story Sales growth is running rampant at Sigma Designs, with even bigger gains ahead. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2002
David Drickhamer |
Where Lean Meets Six Sigma Bringing the two concepts together delivers faster results... |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2005
Mike Cianciolo |
Toyota's Still the Best Automaker reports increased profits on strong global sales. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
There's Just One Word for Jack Welch... Praise for Jack Welch was widespread and consumed large quantities of newsprint in the weeks leading up to Sept. 7, his last day as chairman and CEO of General Electric. One word to sum up his contribution to GE in the 20-plus years he served as its leader would be: results... |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Pick a Market, Sigma Claiming a 75% market share is great, but can chipmaker Sigma Designs back it up? Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
January 22, 2007
Ian Rowley |
Even Toyota Isn't Perfect A raft of recalls lately has Toyota scrambling to safeguard its reputation for quality. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2004
David Drickhamer |
Lean Manufacturing: The 3rd Generation It's time for the younger crop of U.S. manufacturing leaders to take lean to the next level. Is your company ready for TPS2? |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Bremner & Dawson |
Can Anything Stop Toyota? An inside look at how it's reinventing the auto industry. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2007 |
Scrutinizing Six Sigma The story on 3M's evaluation of Six Sigma triggered a vigorous debate among readers. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2011
Anders Bylund |
This Company Truly Believes in Digital Video The digital video revolution is happening. It's just taking a break. That's what I see in the first-quarter report from media-chip specialist Sigma Designs. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Does Sigma Deserve Your Love? This microchip designer always has great opportunities ahead, yet never delivers on its promises. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 31, 2006
Ivan Schneider |
Wachovia Signs BPO Deal With Genpact Wachovia signed a seven-year business-process outsourcing deal with Genpact. Genpact's 16,000 employees in India, China, Hungary, Romania and Mexico will begin to drive Six Sigma through Wachovia's operations. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Told Ya! Sigma Designs Crushed This Quarter Fourth-quarter numbers are in, and Sigma Designs' one-time shortfall proved to be exactly that. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
Mike Cianciolo |
Toyota Smokes the Competition The leader of the Japanese auto market sets a list of records. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Solectron Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Operating In All Modes: In Columbia, South Carolina the electronics manufacturer competes via lean, Six Sigma to the delight -- and sometimes surprise -- of customers. |
Popular Mechanics
March 1, 2010
David Kiley |
What's Next for Toyota: Your Top Recall Questions, Answered Questions still linger, notably, what will be the ultimate consequence of Toyota's nightmare episode. |
The Motley Fool
May 22, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Toyota Running Hot Solid execution and renewed interest in Japanese stocks have benefited Toyota. Having climbed more than 50% over the past year, it's hard to call this stock a bargain, and currency moves could make business a bit more challenging. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008 |
Bookshelf: Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Vol. 1: The Basics "Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Vol. 1: The Basics" could quite possibly be the first "lean" book that tells you as much about how to hit out of a sand trap as it does about performance metrics. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2004
Jill Jusko |
Best Practices -- Sharing The Wealth General Electric Commercial Finance aims to lend customers more than simply money with its "At The Customer, For The Customer" program. ACFC offers business performance management programs like Six Sigma, Leadership Development, etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2011
John Rosevear |
Are Locusts Next for Toyota? Another natural disaster is disrupting the Japanese auto-maker's production - as its long-anticipated U.S. recovery seems to have stalled. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
Diane Brady |
Welch Has More To Say. Really In his new book, Winning, former GE executive Jack Welch, with his wife Suzy, shows that he has more insights and wisdom to share. Here, he offers examples and personal reflections that make this latest chapter in his life an appealing read for a range of readers. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2011
Anders Bylund |
What's Wrong With This Stock Today? Casting a quick glance at media-chip designer Sigma Designs today, you'd think its headquarters were on fire or something. |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Sigma Designs' Grand Designs The highly focused semiconductor maker is set to report third-quarter 2006 results. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters? |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Sigma Hatches Cunning Designs Innovation takes the digital media processor designer through the hard times in one piece, and sets them up for great success afterwards. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Hurry In for Savings on This Rule Breaker Chip designer Sigma Designs is on sale -- and the discount can't last long. |
