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Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder think they've figured out a management program that really works. While at Motorola in the 1980s, they helped pioneer Six Sigma, a process that ''guides companies into making fewer mistakes in everything they do — from filling out a purchase order to manufacturing airplane engines.'' Since then, the two have left Motorola and have turned Six Sigma into a lucrative business that saw over $100 million in consulting contracts in 1998. And now the book.In Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations, Harry and Schroeder explain Six Sigma and show how it's working at companies such as General Electric, Polaroid, and Allied Signal. The authors contend that most companies today are working at a ''sigma'' level of between 3.5 and 4, and that with just a one-sigma shift, companies will experience ''a 20 percent margin improvement, a 12 to 18 percent increase in capacity, a 12 percent reduction in the number of employees,'' as well as ''a 10 to 30 percent capital reduction.'' Sigma is a quality metric that counts the number of defects per million opportunities (DPMO). For example, a sigma level of 3.5 means tha

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Author

Harry, Mikel J; Schroeder, Richard (Richard R.)

Publisher

Doubleday Business

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385494373

Category

business

Subjects

Management, Technology, Management & Leadership

Rating

3.18 / 5 (86 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14