Foreword
Six Sigma was established in 1987 by Motorola. It lay in limbo with sporadic deployment among relatively few companies. Then, in 1994, the tsunami began. AlliedSignal, a $14 Billion company lead by Larry Bossidy, applied Six Sigma to his mediocre company with a vengeance. With the help of a former Motorola quality expert, Rich Schroeder, Larry established Six Sigma to be clearly a business process and quite effective. He was able to track Six Sigma project activities directly to earnings per share for 1995.
When Larry convinced his friend, Jack Welsh, Six Sigma would work in GE, the rest is history. Since 1996, Six Sigma has spread like wildfire throughout every industry. Then companies realized that when Six Sigma was integrated with ...
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