Six Sigma Articles, Case Studies and Documents
Articles selected by Curious Cat from the Curious Cat Six Sigma Library:- A Holistic View of Six Sigma by Roger Hoerl and Ronald Snee, 2004 Sample chapter from their excellent book, Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor.
- Focus on Improvement not Training: How Six Sigma Can Do It Right (in Microsoft Word Format) by Ronald D. Snee, 2001. "Six Sigma training is designed to create the skills and knowledge that managers, Champions and Black Belts and others need to implement the project-by-project approach to improvement utilized by Six Sigma. Six Sigma training pays for itself very quickly."
- How To Compare Six Sigma, Lean and the Theory of Constraints by Dave Nave, 2002.
- Has Six Sigma been a failure? No by John Hunter also see: My Thoughts after 6 Sigma Conference, 1999
- Business Needs Determine What Black Belts Need to Know by Ronald D. Snee, 2001. Comments on article by Roger Hoerl. "Black Belts, therefore, need tools that enable them to rapidly create improvements that produce significant bottom line results."
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- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare by Henk de Koning, John Verver, Jaap van den Heuvel, Soren Bisgaard and Ronald Does, Mar 2006. "This article outlines a methodology and presents examples to illustrate how principles of Lean Thinking and Six Sigma can be combined to provide an effective framework for producing systematic innovation efforts in healthcare. Controlling healthcare cost increases, improving quality, and providing better healthcare are some of the benefits of this approach."
- Bringing Lean Systems Thinking to Six Sigma by Paul Mullenhour and Jamie Flinchbaugh, 2005. "Traditional lean efforts will help you reduce flow time and waste, leading to improvements that will boost overall quality. Six Sigma, with its focus on statistics, will help you deliver a more consistent product. But to fully support your long-term goal.
- 3 Six Sigma Articles by Gerry Hahn - 1) 20 Key Lessons Learned 2002 - 2) What Does it Take to be a Master Black Belt, 2003 - 3) The Future of Six Sigma: May 2004
- Six Sigma and the Bottom Line by Soren Bisgaard and Johanees Freieslsben, Sep 2004 "One way to get management to listen is to usa a managerial accounting framework appropriately modified to the quality context."
- Adopting Six Sigma by Vanessa R. Franco, 2001. "A quality manager's guide to the statistically based strategy."
- In the Beginning by A. Blanton Godfrey, May 2002 Blan Godrfery interviews Robert W. Galvin about how Motorola started Six Sigma and helped spread its success.
More, good six sigma articles and reports - more articles on six sigma by Roger Hoerl