Appendix D
“Six Sigma as an Enabler” Research Project: Full Report
This text is excerpted, with permission, from SEI Technical Report CMU/SEI-2004-TR-018 [Bergey et al. 04, ch. 5].
D.1. Purpose
The primary purpose of this project was to examine whether Six Sigma, when used in combination with another process improvement technology or technologies, makes the transition[1] of that technology more effective. While we were interested first in the transition of SEI technologies, what we learned also applies to non-SEI technologies, non-process technologies, and to Six Sigma users in general.
A secondary or implicit purpose of this project was to overcome ...
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