6 Sigma Mystique Takes Beating In Downturn ‘SICK SIGMA’ It has always been easy to ridicule 6 Sigma. The name — given by Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Inc, which codified 6 Sigma in the 1980s and trademarked it — is a statistical term, meaningless to lay ears and yet vaguely sinister, perhaps conjuring thoughts of a [...]
Developed in the 1950s by Japanese companies like Toyota under the tutelage of U.S. Quality guru W. Edwards Deming, the practices now referred to as 6 Sigma were originally just a way of reducing waste and cost on the factory floor, while improving quality, delivery and services. In the 1970s, U.S. manufacturers began adopting it [...]
6 Sigma Mystique Takes Beating In Downturn Why are companies that embraced 6 Sigma – like GM, Caterpillar, and Motorola — doing no better in this downturn than the companies that ignored it? Companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars adopting 6 Sigma, the popular business management system inspired by Toyota Motor Corp’s legendary [...]
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