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	The Partnership of Six Sigma and Data Certification
		Since Six Sigma works to reduce defects, data certification improvement programs are often beneficial for the application of their methodologies.
		Since Six Sigma and data quality improvement share the same goal of reducing defects, data certification improvement programs are natural candidates for the application of Six Sigma methodologies.
		Central to Six Sigma and data certification is the ability to measure data quality throughout the entire process and compare the actual outputs to the desired, required or expected outputs.
	www.sixsigmaonline.org /six_sigma_article24.html (2013 words)

	Six-Sigma Institute at UCSD Extension
		Six Sigma is a series of tools, techniques, and business metrics that represent the best in quality and process improvement -- the minimization of variation and defects from products, processes and services to almost zero.
		Six Sigma and its frontline Black Belts can be the source of revolutionary and rapid process improvements leading to dramatic increases in both productivity and profitability, and ultimately to sustained enterprise growth.
		Six two-day training modules are organized to allow structured implementation of Six Sigma projects and resulting in actual project ROI and certification of company Black Belts.
	extension.ucsd.edu /Programs/Eng/Six-Sigma.html (787 words)

	Six Sigma Survey - Part V
		Both Vu and Chowdhury also acknowledge that taking off-site classes in Six Sigma can be cost-effective; however, both caution that unless the right people are sent and top management is involved, the $10,000 to $15,000 per student cost will be wasted.
		Linsenmann suggests that small companies not focus on the Six Sigma support systems that large companies have in place but rather on the attributes of those systems.
		Although larger companies can absorb a certain amount of this, it could be devastating for a small company to invest in Black Belt training for one or two employees only to see them hired by another firm offering more money.
	www.sixsigmaonline.org /six_sigma_article17.html (520 words)

	Is Six Sigma Falling Short Of Expectations? - Executive CIO Square Off - Optimize Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		Companies are trying to manage the economic downturn and market pressures, and also boost credibility with their customers, suppliers, and even their own employees.
		Six Sigma was created as a means of analyzing and measuring discrete manufacturing processes and reducing defects to 3.4 per million.
		Six Sigma forces companies to think of themselves as a collection of departments so they can pinpoint the scope of their work.
	www.optimizemag.com /issue/018/squareoff.htm (667 words)

	ASQ : Publications : Six Sigma Forum Magazine : November 2002
		Six Sigma as developed by Motorola was an extension of many of the quality tools and techniques already around, but Motorola added the component of financial accountability.
		All companies are looking at having a number of techniques in their toolbox to help them attain their goals, and lean and Six Sigma techniques are just some of those tools.
		Six Sigma and lean are the same in that they are both structured tool kits used to help solve problems and improve performance in one way or another.
	www.asq.org /pub/sixsigma/past/vol2_issue1/youropinion.html (2825 words)

	American Quality Management Mall
		Although Six Sigma programs totalled only 5 percent of all performance improvement initiatives undertaken in the past three years by companies surveyed in a major study, the statistically rigorous approach to operations excellence may be in for major growth this year.
		For telecom, life sciences, and healthcare companies Six Sigma is the second most likely initiative to be pursued.
		According to the study, some 43% of performance improvement initiatives undertaken over the past three years by the companies surveyed failed to achieve the strategic business and financial objectives the initiatives were designed to support.
	www.americanquality.com /artman/publish/article_612.shtml (677 words)

	Six Sigma for Large Companies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		They are responsible to coach the Core team in deploying Six Sigma implementation and to provide necessary training for all Six Sigma project participants in system deployment, project management, and utilization of quality tools.
		Encourage their commitment to the Six Sigma implementation effort and spread it to the rest of the organization.
		The Six Sigma project teams are responsible for the delivering of the project goals assigned to each project.
	www.pqa.net /ProdServices/sixsigma/W06002006.html (1608 words)

	Six Oklahoma companies earn state nod for incentives
		Six companies that plan to hire about 1,100 Oklahomans have been approved for incentives under the state's Quality Jobs Program, the state Commerce Department announced Tuesday.
		Among the Lawton company's past clients are the Army Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Lockheed Martin, the Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The company has operations in eight states.
		To qualify, a company must be a central administrative office, manufacturer, research and development or a listed service company with 75 percent of total sales to out-of-state customers.
	www.cdfa.net /cdfa/press.nsf/pages/578 (714 words)

	Six Sigma for Small and Medium Companies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		Six Sigma projects should be derived from your business' strategic plan which sets an organization's goals and key performance measurements.
		More importantly, for managing a Six Sigma quality system, each critical factor should be implemented through the mapping of the Six Sigma MAIC (measure, analyze, improve, and control) discipline into its routine processes.
		During the initial stages in defining, developing, and implementing the Six Sigma program, it is important that senior management schedule frequent reviews with the quality facilitator to keep yourselves informed of the activities involved in the Six Sigma implementation.
	www.pqa.net /ProdServices/sixsigma/W06002007.html (2021 words)

	Six Companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture of construction companies that was formed to build Hoover Dam and later went on to build Grand Coulee Dam and other large projects.
		It was a consortium formed by six smaller general contractors in order to submit a bid for the Hoover Dam contract.
		Six Companies bid was $5,000,000 lower than the next highest bidder, a bid spread of almost 10%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Six_Companies (424 words)

	Six Apart - ProNet - Fortune 500 Blogging
		Add on top of that the TypePad-powered blogs run by companies ranging from Amazon to Viacom's VH1, and you should be able to find a useful reference for almost any industry that your clients are interested in.
		While we're happy to power blogs for many of these companies with our platforms, the exciting news is the potential that this number represents for those of you who are consultants, developers, designers, or systems integrators.
		We think most companies can grow their businesses by smart use of blogging, and we're looking forward to helping to grow the percentage of companies who are using blogs either inside their organizations or to communicate with the web at large.
	www.sixapart.com /pronet/weblog/2006/01/fortune_500_blo.html (466 words)

	Six Apart - TypeKey Privacy Policy
		Six Apart collects personal information when you register with Six Apart to use Six Apart products or services or to post content on a Six Apart blog site as a guest with authoring rights, and when you enter into promotions or sweepstakes.
		Six Apart receives IP addresses from all users because this information is automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page.
		Six Apart may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Six Apart Terms of Service for the Service that you use.
	www.sixapart.com /typekey/privacy (1200 words)

	Q&A: Microsoft Accelerator Boosts Six Sigma Practices: Microsoft's Accelerator for Six Sigma helps bring out ...
		In talking with executives at companies that follow Six Sigma methodologies, Microsoft discovered they were facing challenges in areas such as project tracking and financial tracking.
		Executives, Six Sigma Champions, Master Black Belts, and Black Belts need to understand on a continual basis the financial impact their Six Sigma projects have on the company's bottom line.
		The Accelerator allows companies to integrate third party eLearning tools so trainees can not only take the courses electronically from their office, but they can also use the resource to search for people in the company who are experienced Six Sigma practitioners to benefit from their expertise.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/features/2003/Jan03/01-27sixsigma.mspx (1883 words)

	Rental Pulse-Six rental companies among top 21 fleets in 2002 CE rankings
		Rental companies occupy six of the top 21 places on Construction Equipment magazine’s 2002 Equipment Giants report, a ranking of companies based on the replacement value of their equipment fleets according to their own estimates (CE, September).
		The high ranking of these large rental companies is all the more remarkable when you consider the financial difficulties that have hammered them over the past couple of years, and in one case – NationsRent – brought on a restructuring under Chapter 11 protection.
		This and the costs of acquiring rental companies were major contributors to the highly leveraged positions of these companies, which made them so vulnerable to the economic turndown.
	www.rentalpulse.com /article.asp?ARTID=703 (556 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO / Judge tosses suit by faction opposing Chinatown leader / Six Companies in widening split over Taiwan ...
		A growing political rift among its board members is threatening to tear apart the Six Companies, one of the most influential groups in San Francisco's Chinatown.
		The dispute at the Six Companies exposes a longtime divide in the Bay Area's Chinese American community.
		At the Six Companies, there was infighting on the board for many years, but the Taiwan faction far outnumbered mainland China supporters.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/20/BAGSC6OKO01.DTL (606 words)

	Six Sigma in IT
		SIX SIGMA IN “Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure to meet customer expectations are related to deficiencies in systems and process rather than the employee.
		Six Sigma methodologies can be molded to optimize performance in keeping with the required metrics.
		He assumed Six Sigma fl belt role at Patni in 2001 and was part of core Six Sigma team that rolled out Six Sigma in Patni-GE Global Development Center.
	www.sixsigmafirst.com /ssit.htm (3377 words)

	Quality Digest Magazine
		If Six Sigma is truly yielding huge savings for the companies that use it, then it stands to reason that small businesses need Six Sigma in order to achieve the kind of cost savings and increased profitability enjoyed by large-company Six Sigma practitioners.
		Large companies were able to use the tools that dealt with large populations of articles and design an infrastructure to reduce waste and cycle time.
		Because of the bureaucracy [in large companies], there was room to organize some of the talent around the idea of Six Sigma." Large companies had the luxury of being able to pull out and train a corporate Champion, small business unit Champions and thousands of Black Belts and Green Belts, he explains.
	www.qualitydigest.com /feb03/articles/01_article.shtml (2567 words)

	Six Sigma Software Suite
		Quality America, Inc. was one of the first companies to provide statistical process control software, and has now branched out with many additional quality applications that provide great value to companies that understand Lean, Six Sigma, and the never-ending process of improvement.
		Six Sigma is a Quality Improvement methodology structured to reduce product or service failure rates to a negligible level (roughly 3.4 failures per million opportunities).
		Six Sigma companies typically spend less than 5 percent of their revenues addressing and repairing quality problems.
	www.gtpcc.org /gtpcc/sixsigmasoftware.htm (1681 words)

	ASIC asks six listed companies to re-do their books - BusinessNews - www.smh.com.au
		The corporate watchdog yesterday named six companies it had forced in recent months to fix discrepancies in their accounting standards - some which turned a reported profit into a loss - and is taking aim at another 67 companies that may have issued dodgy sets of accounts.
		Following a sweep of 400 listed companies' accounts from last year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it believed there was not a "systemic" problem of companies sidestepping accounting standards but raised concerns that auditors had from time to time signed accounts without qualification only for the regulator to discover incorrect accounting treatments.
		In recent months, companies admitting they have been forced to amend their accounts include Telstra's takeover target Kaz, which recently reduced its half-year profit result by $1.405 million after an accounting treatment that incorrectly recognised revenue on the acquisition of a 25 per cent interest in a controlled entity called Atune.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/04/13/1081838723982.html (608 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO / Taiwan dispute begets new suit by Six Companies' faction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		The lawsuit contests the Six Companies' traditional inaugural ceremony in which the organization's elected president must pledge allegiance to Taiwan and sing its national anthem.
		The lawsuit filed by two of the seven regional associations that make up the Six Companies is the latest development in a deepening rift between factions supporting the Taiwanese nationalists and the mainland Chinese government.
		For decades the Six Companies was dominated by the pro-Taiwan associations, but in recent years support for mainland China has grown, fueling the dispute.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/17/BAG4J779M11.DTL (860 words)

	Six Companies in Calpers Cross-hairs - - CFO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		To select the companies on its focus list, Calpers examines the more than 1,800 U.S. corporations from its internal equity portfolio, then narrows the list based on long-term stock performance, corporate governance practices, and an evaluation of economic value-added, or EVA, which measures net operating profit after tax, minus cost of capital.
		Feckner said that Calpers is urging these companies to make a number of governance improvements, including requiring majority voting for directors, removing excessive takeover defenses that prevent shareowners from amending company bylaws, and accounting for their performance.
		• Mellon is the target of a shareowner proposal to remove the company's requirement of a 75 percent majority vote to amend company bylaws; its share price fell by 2 percent compared with a 58 percent gain for industry peers over the past five years.
	www.cfo.com /article.cfm/6844565/c_6823889?f=home_todayinfinance (496 words)

	The American Experience \| Hoover Dam \| People & Events \| The Men of Six Companies
		The coming together of what became Six Companies is a story of the melding of ambitions of maverick individuals, each driven by a desire to transform the emerging West.
		The men of Six Companies, at the urging of Harry Morrison, turned to Frank Crowe to come up with a number that would get them the job.
		Six Companies' construction of Hoover Dam was also significant in that it forged a bond between government funding and private-sector expertise, motivated by the cache of projects of such scale.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/hoover/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html (641 words)

	Six Sigma Products and Services
		As a philosophy Six Sigma drives business culture and requires a nearly flawless execution of key processes making Six Sigma a high standard for companies and individuals to achieve.
		By reducing process variation Six Sigma frees the organization to focus on improving process capability and as sigma levels increase, the cost of poor quality decreases and profitability increases.
		Six Sigma Deployment: A Guide for Implementing Six Sigma in Your Organization author Paul Keller suggests ways to jump start Six Sigma in your organization.
	www.qualityamerica.com /six_sigma.html (299 words)

	Six Sigma Training Consulting Workshops Certification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		Six Sigma training is an overall methodology that drives business improvements by focusing on the voice of the customer as well as the voice of the business.
		It is a system of management processes to achieve lasting business leadership and world class performance, a goal that reaches near perfection and a statistical measure of process or product.
		Six Sigma is a registered trademark of Motorola Corporation.
	www.buker.com /sixsigma.htm (116 words)

	State denied tax breaks to six companies - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
		The approved companies were Turner Broadcasting System Inc., HBO and Co., Springs Industries Inc., General Electric Co., Alltel Corp. and YKK Corp. All but Alltel insist they have lived up to their agreements.
		Nevertheless, all of the six companies that were turned down have maintained facilities in Georgia, and most have expanded as they proposed.
		An official with a third company said it was told why it was denied: State officials said its particular proposal was too small or the jobs it promised to create were too low-paying.
	atlanta.bizjournals.com /atlanta/stories/2002/06/24/story7.html (838 words)

	Amazon.com: Leading Six Sigma: A Step-by-Step Guide Based on Experience with GE and Other Six Sigma Companies: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-03)
		Remember, when other companies were "focusing on core strengths" in the mid 1980s, GE was expanding in finance, particularly leasing.
		Most books on Six Sigma are either technical (focusing on the tools and methodology) or are high level explanations of the basics of Six Sigma and descriptions of the wonderful impact it has on organizations.
		This book is really a blueprint for implementing and sustaining Six Sigma and provides excellent advice on how to avoid the pitfalls that so many companies have run into during their failed attempts at implementing Six Sigma.
	www.amazon.com /Leading-Six-Sigma-Step-Step/dp/0130084573 (3701 words)

	Six Sigma at Target Corporation
		Six Sigma is helping Target achieve their mantra “design, innovation, and continuous improvement” a philosophy aimed at delighting guests.
		In addition to Six Sigma, Target trains employees in a wide array of skills under the continuous improvement umbrella including change management, process improvement, problem solving, setting business goals and objectives, and teambuilding.
		Six Sigma has made its way into many of their business operations including Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Distribution/Logistics/Supply Chain, and Property Management.
	www.sixsigmacompanies.com /archive/six_sigma_at_target_corporation.html (597 words)

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