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TEACHING SIX SIGMA

Many of you who use this text will get involved in teaching Six Sigma. The people you will teach will have various educational backgrounds and various interest levels. I will share with you how I got involved in using, teaching, and finally writing this text on Six Sigma. Perhaps my experiences will be valuable to you as you begin to teach this methodology.

I had already been at GE for many years and was managing a very successful engineering team when Six Sigma was introduced. GE initially had a limited number of very bright people trained by outside consultants deemed experts in Six Sigma. This group of newly trained people then put together a set of modules to be used to train the next group of people, which mostly consisted ...