Six Sigma for Everyone
Chapter One
Why Has
My Company
Adopted Six Sigma?
What Can Six Sigma Do for You?
"Six Sigma is Greek to me."
-An Employee who just heard his company has
started a Six Sigma initiative.
So your company has just announced they have begun a Six
Sigma quality initiative. You might be an experienced worker who
has been through a quality initiative in the past. In all likelihood
that experience was a bad one where you felt the time and money
was wasted and negatively impacted your work life. Or you might
be a new employee who wants to know what the excitement is all
about.
You might have heard or read about Six Sigma in the newspaper
as organization after organization has begun to adopt and implement
this powerful management philosophy. What we want to
do in this book is take away the mysticism of Six Sigma. In this
first chapter, we answer your basic questions about Six Sigma. We
provide you with a user-friendly definition of Six Sigma. We give
you a brief history of Six Sigma and then explain why Six Sigma is
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