8Selecting a Six Sigma Pricing Project

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.H. L. Hunt

8.1 Introduction

One important reason Six Sigma is different from its predecessors in regard to quality management is that only those projects that provide good value for the effort are meant to be taken up. Still, companies that make Six Sigma training or an implemented project a requirement for promotion or bonus risk employees picking up mundane projects just to "tick the box."

Six Sigma requires the selection of projects to be based on a solid business cases to ensure that the projects will have economic value. In this chapter, we outline various processes that generally fall under ...

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