SIX SIGMA: BREAKING THROUGH THE QUALITY HYPE
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ABSTRACT
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Title: Six Sigma: Breaking through the Quality Hype
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Degree: Master of Business Administration
Year: 2001
Motorola's Robert Galvin came up with it and breathed life back into the company, snagging a Baldrige Award in the process. Larry Bossidy rebooted AlliedSignal with it and then sold General Electric's Jack Welch on it. GE then made Six Sigma front-page news. Notwithstanding its 15-year history and the usual hype that comes with any concept promising organizations huge bottom-line benefits, the number of companies actually using Six Sigma appears to be quite small. Moreover, the perceptions within the quality industry of Six Sigma methodology vary greatly. So......
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