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IndustryWeek
September 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Bookshelf: Design For Six Sigma Two new books offer twists on process improvement program.   |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer of the Year, Division III Quick company stats of Sigma Financial Corp. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Ranking Continuous Improvement Methods Lean manufacturing tops the list of responses to a survey about continuous improvement programs. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Steve Minter |
Six Sigma's Growing Pains The popular quality methodology pays a price for not being a panacea. |
Fast Company
September 2005
Martin Kihn |
Six Sigma Stigma Ask Japanese carmaker about Six Sigma, and you'll be speaking Greek to them. No one disputes the worthiness of Six Sigma's intentions, much less the statistics. But this management trend may not be the be-all end-all that some believe it to be. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2002
David Drickhamer |
Where Lean Meets Six Sigma Bringing the two concepts together delivers faster results... |
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
July 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Lean Results for Lean Programs: By the Numbers Although many large U.S.-based manufacturers utilize lean techniques, there's a lot of room for improvement. |
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
December 14, 2011 |
Six Sigma in the Finance Department Companies need to measure their financial processes as closely as they do their production processes. |
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 |
Scrutinizing Six Sigma The story on 3M's evaluation of Six Sigma triggered a vigorous debate among readers. |
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
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. |
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. |
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.... |
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
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
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
April 1, 2004
George Taninecz |
Faster But Not Better Improved manufacturing times don't always result in comparable cost reductions. |
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 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. |
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. |
CRM
July 2010
Lauren McKay |
Changing the Deal Sigma Financial turns sales into something more than spreadsheets. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
David Blanchard |
Census of Manufacturers -- What's Working for U.S. Manufacturers The latest Census of Manufacturers reveals that lean is still the most popular improvement method. |
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
August 30, 2010
Jeremy Phillips |
Will Sigma Designs Shorts Get Burned? Sigma Designs has a current short interest of 18.4%. That's pretty high, but let's see how it compares to other companies in the IPTV chip industry. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2007
Spencer E. Ante |
Starwood Hotels: Rubbing Customers The Right Way Massages and other unlikely Six Sigma ventures are winners at Starwood Hotels. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2008
Tim Beyers |
To Get Green, Go With Big Blue IBM unveils a consulting practice called "Green Sigma" that will assist clients with reducing energy and water usage. |
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? |
