Why You Need This Book

Motorola developed Six Sigma around 1987 and other companies, large and small, embraced the theory in the 1990's.

Although the theory is simple, many who implement Six Sigma often struggle with the details of overall deployment. Your company is not GE or AlliedSignal; therefore, you cannot simply adopt their Six Sigma deployment models. But it makes sense to take what has worked successfully in other organizations and adapt those approaches and methods and that is the focus of this book.

To use an initial public offering (IPO) analogy, when a small private company decides to go public, there are legal, financial, investor relations, and other issues to be addressed. If this book were on IPOs, it would not attempt to convince ...

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