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Six Sigma
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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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6 Key Metrics for Measuring Lean Success
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This webcast discusses the key metrics that your company can use to help ensure that you accomplished your lean goal.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Sharpen Your Competitive Edge with Field Service Applications for BlackBerry
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Cross Platform IAM from the Mainframe to the Web-Integrating z/Series Security
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Data quality assessment helps identify, fix data quality problems
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In this 20-minute podcast, appropriate for both business and IT professionals, listeners will find out how to get a handle on data quality needs through a data quality assessment.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 26 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Configuration Management - How to Really Cover your Assets
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Configuration Management is the heart of IT Service Management. This webcast will teach you what hardware and software exist in that environment, and how they relate to each other. Also discussed is how to increase service quality and reduce costs.
Posted: 01 Apr 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Improving Software Quality and Security
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This Webcast details the importance of enhancing quality assurance and security preparedness within an organization during application development and system deployment.
Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data Governance Done Right With Jill Dyche and Evan Levy
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This podcast explores the relationship between data governance, Customer Data Integration (CDI) and Master Data Management (MDM). It also gives advice on how to succeed with data governance, and beginning a data governance initiative.
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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 …
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