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IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
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Critical Success Factors The purpose of the Six Sigma projects is to make the company more efficient and competitive not to reduce their numbers.   |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Steve Minter |
Six Sigma's Growing Pains The popular quality methodology pays a price for not being a panacea. |
CRM
November 2003
Ginger Conlon |
How Do You Measure Success? Let us count the ways: Sales measures success one way, marketing another way, service another, and IT yet another. For this reason the first step of any CRM initiative should be to set mutually agreed-upon goals and metrics. |
CRM
March 2003
Dick Lee |
Don't Blame CRM Managers shouldn't expect success if users haven't been sold on CRM. |
CRM
July 2003
Laura Pollard |
Enterprise Schmenterprise Who truly sees the value of enterprise CRM? |
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
January 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Continuous Improvement Technology Market To Double Manufacturers adopt programs that fit their lean initiatives. |
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. |
CRM
March 1, 2005
David Myron |
What Is CRM? Defining CRM as merely a technology solution only distorts its purpose and value. It is better to view CRM as a business process. |
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.... |
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. |
CRM
July 2010
Lauren McKay |
Changing the Deal Sigma Financial turns sales into something more than spreadsheets. |
CRM
November 2011
Paul Greenberg |
Social Everything Comes of Age Enterprise 2.0 and social CRM form the core of social business |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer of the Year, Division III Quick company stats of Sigma Financial Corp. |
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. |
CRM
June 22, 2012
David Mattson |
Combine Sales Training and CRM for a Winning Environment Many people look at sales training and CRM as two separate functions that operate independently of one another. Would it surprise you to hear that they actually complement one another, and that sales training should always include consideration of the CRM strategy? |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2002
David Drickhamer |
Where Lean Meets Six Sigma Bringing the two concepts together delivers faster results... |
CRM
August 4, 2015
David Myron |
Social CRM Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Follow these 10 steps to deploy a successful social CRM strategy. |
CRM
May 1, 2003
Martin Schneider |
Hot Seat: Fred Wiersema on Leadership During the most recent CRM Conference and Expo, Fred Wiersema, business strategist and author of a book titled The New Market Leaders, talked about what winning companies do when customers stop buying. CRM sat down with Wiersema to discuss market leadership. |
CRM
December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc. |
CRM
April 2015
Oren Smilansky |
How to Select a CRM System Whether it's your first solution or your fourth, these tips will help make the vendor selection process easier. |
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. |
CRM
October 18, 2004
Jason Compton |
How to...Select a CRM Implementation Partner Hands-on advice to ensure CRM success. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
Rick Pay |
Everybody's Jumping on the Lean Bandwagon, But Many Are Being Taken for a Ride Lean might not always produce the expected benefits and here's why. |
CRM
August 2, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at two executives from Microsoft. |
CRM
November 2014
Eric Barkin |
Maximize the ROI of Your CRM Solution: Learn How to Get the Most for the Least The payoff from your CRM system is determined as much by your commitment to it as by the strength of the technology. |
CRM
September 2004
Britt et al. |
The 2004 Market Leaders CRM vendors have individually and collectively worked to build confidence in the discipline, and those efforts are paying off. Read on to see what companies prevailed from 2003, and how others are leaving an indelible mark on the industry. |
CRM
July 14, 2015
Javier Peralta |
Choose the Right CRM Solution for Your Small Business Mobility, flexibility, and automation will help you get the most out of your system. |
CRM
July 29, 2011
Reza Soudagar |
Is Vanilla Enough for You? Many large companies opt to use a cloud-based CRM point solution. |
CRM
December 17, 2015
Dave Nelson |
3 Tips for CRM Investment in the Digital Age With channels, interactions, and data proliferating, CRM strategies and tools are still key to superior customer experience. |
Bank Technology News
April 2001
David Rountree |
Customers Rule Today Long before the Internet, the customer was said to be king. But the Net appears to spell certain, if slow, death for banks that don't act accordingly... |
CRM
January 2010
Barton Goldenberg |
Assessing Your CRM Situation You can't know where you are unless you look - and look hard. |
CRM
August 27, 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Required Reading Author Russ Lombardo offers practical advice on gathering information to design and plan the right CRM strategy, getting buy-in, and planning for ROI in "CRM for the Common Man." |
Food Processing
March 2012
G. Keith Diepstra |
Leading for a Culture of Improvement The improvement culture in the food industry is weak, because leadership in the food industry has a weak understanding of improvement. |
Search Engine Watch
August 19, 2010
Jacob Morgan |
Interactions With Transactions: Understanding Social CRM Empowering advocates and improving the customer experience is a key focal point of social customer relationship management. An introduction to the philosophy and business strategy. |
CRM
January 2007
Jim Dickie |
Nobody Can Stop the Shopping The CRM watchwords in the new year may well be shop till you drop. Many companies will continue to purchase additional technology throughout 2007, despite previous large-ticket expenditures. |
CRM
March 13, 2015
Daniel Sarfati |
Measure CRM Usage to Optimize Business Processes Current tools leave insight lacking when it comes to employee interaction. |
Inc.
August 2008 |
Ask Bob Galvin Applying Six Sigma principles to service firms. |
CRM
March 28, 2014
Glenn Johnson |
5 Tips for Making CRM an Enterprise Portal Focus on revenue to drive project objectives. |
CRM
November 9, 2015
Michael Rooney |
Finding Lost Sales Revenue: It's All About the Process Getting a well-defined sales process in place is important. Having it adopted and automated is even better. |
CRM
March 1, 2004 |
Just 1 Question Should companies expect their CRM vendors to help them use CRM to determine who their most profitable customers are? |
CRM
April 25, 2014
Connor Marsden |
CRM Technology as a Business Planning Tool Sharing essential information is key to meeting customer demands. |
CRM
October 2006 |
The 2006 CRM Market Awards--Table of Contents and Introduction At the crux of the success of CRM software are the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies focused on creating and cultivating rewarding customer experiences and relationships. Their efforts and achievements are recognized here. |
CRM
July 13, 2012
James Wong |
Change Is the Name of the Game How current technology trends are affecting CRM. |
