September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
6h 44m
English
Strategic perspective
Operational processes and supply chain perspective
Key performance question this indicator helps to answer
How capable are our processes of delivering error-free work?
The Six Sigma metric (which was pioneered by Motorola in the late 1980s and later adopted very successfully by global giants such as General Electric and Honeywell as well as many other companies of various sizes) informs managers as to the stability and predictability of process results. The goal is that process defect or error rates will be no more than 3.4 per one million opportunities. As an analogy, consider a goalkeeper of a football team who plays 50 games in a season and who faces 50 shots ...
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