Through 2007, ill-defined IT deliverables, misaligned business expectations, and unknown performance levels, combined with economic pressures, will force more than 30% of IT organizations (ITOs) to ...

Six Sigma is largely touted in the business media. More than simply a concept, Six Sigma is a metric, a methodology, and a management system. Since its creation in 1986, it has gained such a solid ...

Marc S. Morrison is a manager in the Houston office of Alvarez & Marsal. Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting helps companies grow stronger bypartnering with management to identify opportunity, ...

How do you implement the Six Sigma methodology? Consider the 5W1H approach when implementing it for your organization. 5W1H (who, what, where, when, why, how) is a method of asking questions about a ...

Imagine you are on a road trip where each time you think you have arrived the destination gets better. Lean Six Sigma's constant improvement is essentially based on this. Perfection, dear reader, is a ...

Lean Six Sigma is a process improvement methodology that combines the benefits of both Lean manufacturing techniques and Six Sigma to help companies streamline operations, increase value and reduce ...

As a manager or executive at a small business, “Six Sigma” is probably not on your to-do list. Yet this proven methodology for quality improvement, developed at Motorola in the early 1980s and ...

In Leading Holistic Improvement with Lean Six Sigma 2.0 the authors, Ronald D. Snee and Roger W. Hoerl suggest use of the enhanced version of this methodology. Furthermore, this improvement ...

FORT MONROE, Va. (Oct. 30, 2009) - The U.S. Training and Doctrine Command Lean Six Sigma team was recognized for winning awards at the international level during the 2009 Annual Global Lean, Six Sigma ...

Law firms can use Lean Six Sigma to become trusted business partners to clients, say Catherine Alman MacDonagh and Thomas L. Sager Client satisfaction studies demonstrate that it is critically ...