Recently added articles from ASQ Six Sigma Forum Magazine:
Fixing University Budgets
May 01, 2009; ... The economy is definitely the hot topic this year. So. it is no surprise that almost all new Six Sigma Black Belt (BB) projects are more focused than ever on short-term, bottomline results. Many of these projects are pure cost-reduction strategies, but more forward-looking organizations are ...
Toxic Waste
May 01, 2009; ... The evolving global financial crisis has dominated headlines for months, primarily because of the multifaceted nature of the events. One aspect that has been overlooked, however, is the toxic statistics that polluted financial analyses - an occurrence similar to the statistics that sully many ...
VOICE OF THE READERS
May 01, 2009; ... ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY I couldn't agree more with Blan Godfrey's From the Editor column (August 2008, "People Are Not Cars," pp. 8-9). I worked in the healthcare delivery industry for more than 13 years - in the late 1970s through 1991 - asan internal ...
Get Moo-ving
May 01, 2009; ... The global financial meltdown has created many problems, but it also has created opportunities. Six Sigma professionals (SSP) should be assessing the impact on themselves and their employers. In reacting to periods of financial difficulty, there seems to be two possibilities: Hunker ...
Too Little, Too Late
May 01, 2009; ... On any day of the week, you can watch any number of news programs, and by using countless metrics and statistics, they will convince you that die current economic situation is the worst recession since ... whenever. That discussion and ranking of the economic climate on an index scale of ...