ALSO CALLED: Total Quality Management, TQM, and 6 Sigma DEFINITION: Six Sigma is a management philosophy developed by Motorola that emphasizes setting extremely high objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results to a fine degree as a way to reduce defects in products and services. The Greek letter sigma is sometimes used to denote variation from a standard.
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Quality audit tracking system (QATS) offers a powerful, maintainable, and affordable solution to quality audit information tracking and reporting. Empower your staff to create, manage, and report audit information in a secure data environment.
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Information technology is ubiquitous in organizations, but what distinguishes top-notch IT from merely adequate IT? Read this article written by the Economist, to learn how leading companies enable IT to perform optimally.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 21 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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This paper describes an easily implemented, nondisruptive, scalable, and comprehensive foundation for capturing data quality events as well as measuring and ultimately controlling data quality in the data warehouse.
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SIX SIGMA DEFINITION (continued): … The philosophy behind Six Sigma is that if you measure how many defects are in a process, you can figure out how to systematically eliminate them and get as close to perfection as possible. In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities, where an opportunity is defined as a chance for nonconformance.
There are two Six Sigma processes: Six Sigma DMAIC and Six Sigma DMADV, each term derived from the major steps in the process. Six … Six Sigma definition sponsored by SearchCIO.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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