Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations

By Melvin Alexander. Technometrics, 2001

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Introduction to Applied Econometrics (2005, methodology): “This book relates to statistical methodology as the book by Harry and Schroeder (2000) relates to Six Sigma methodology.”
Integrating leadership development and succession planning best practices (2007, background): “More than 15,000 high potential middle managers at GE are given fulltime assignments as " Black Belt " teachers of six sigma, the company's highly successful total quality management program (Harry and Schroeder, 1999).”
Some pros and cons of six sigma: an academic perspective (2004, background): “A number of papers and books have been published showing the fundamentals of six sigma, such as, what is six sigma (Hoerl, 1998; Breyfogle III, 1999; Harry and Schroeder, 1999), why do we need six sigma (Snee, 2000; Pande et al.”
Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study (2019, methodology): “The factors are loosely based on the concepts behind the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) [26] and Six Sigma [27], which are widely used in software development to assess and improve maturity of software projects.”
A survey of data mining and knowledge discovery process models and methodologies (2010, methodology): “6-1996 (Harry&Schroeder, 1999; Pyzdek, 2003) 5A’s 1996 (Martínez, 2003) 1993 SEMMA 1996 Human-Centered 1996 (Brachman & Anand, 1996; Gertosio & Dussauchoy, 2004) 1997 1998 Anand & Buchner 1998 (Anand & Buchner,1998 The KDD process is interactive and iterative (with many decisions made by the user),…”
Analysis of Financial Time Series (2005, unknown): “The book by Harry and Schroeder (2000) began a stream of books where Six Sigma connoted process management. I particularly liked Pande, Neuman, and Cavanagh (2000), reported as Ziegel (2002), whose first author wrote the forward to this small and very inexpensive little book.”
Six Sigma: Definition and underlying theory (2008, background): “Harry and Schroeder (2000), in their popular book on Six Sigma, described it as a ‘‘business process that allows companies to drastically improve their bottom line by designing and monitoring everyday business activities in ways that minimize waste and resources while increasing customer…”