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Okay, the Six-Sigma discipline in business process improvement demands experimentation.
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Collins delivered a wonkier variation -- GASB 45 and a “need to implement lean Six-Sigma and let it roll across New York as it rolled across Erie County” -- of his Wyoming County speech at a time when diners were focused on the podium instead of their salads.
On the Stump With the Guy Who Isn't Rudy Giuliani or Rick Lazio 2009
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We coined the term “kamikaze kaizen” and the accompanying term “kamikaze Six-Sigma” to describe the likely result: lots of commotion, many isolated victories in the great war against muda, widespread initial enthusiasm on the basis of early results, impressive amounts of consciousness raising, and … loss of the war when no sustainable benefits reached the customer or the bottom line.
Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003
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"In addition, they had a well-staffed Six-Sigma organization, made up largely of former GE employees and others from top Six-Sigma firms."
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Six-Sigma tools and disciplines, as applied to the supply chain, aim to quantify and qualify concepts like total cost of ownership.
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Jabil Circuit uses Six-Sigma quality criteria to rate supplier performance
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This paper presents the perspective that the LEAN Six-Sigma tools that reduce set-up and improve process yields must be combined with the strategic use of inventory to decrease production costs and to create profit generating market offers.
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One thing Rockwell Collins is doing to address the challenge is to make sure it drives tighter Six-Sigma controls internally.
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Jabil Circuit uses Six-Sigma quality criteria to rate supplier performance
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Electronics purchasers who say they are increasing inventory levels Jabil Circuit uses Six-Sigma quality criteria to rate supplier performance
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