Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods

By Martha M. Gardner. Technometrics, 2000

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Six Sigma: Definition and underlying theory (2008, methodology): “Stretch goals motivate team members to think ‘‘out of the box’’ (Breyfogle, 1999; Hamel, 2000).”
A Multi-Project Model of Key Factors Affecting Organizational Benefits from Enterprise Systems (2010, background): “…(Garvin 1988; Samson and Terziovski 1999; Walton 1986), business process reengineering (Davenport 1993; Hammer 1996, 2007; Hammer and Champy 1993), and today’s SixSigma projects (Breyfogle 2003), all argue that process improvement is an important way to achieve greater organizational benefits.”
A method to standardize usability metrics into a single score (2005, methodology): “This method of standardization was adapted from the process sigma metric used in Six Sigma [4],[17], [43].”
Widening the Six Sigma concept: An approach to improve organizational learning (2002, background): “…& Francis Ltd DOI: 10.1080/09544120120102469 Six Sigma as an improvement programme has received considerable attention in the literature during the last few years (e.g. Bergman & Kroslid, 2000; Breyfogle, 1999; Harry, 1994, 1998; Hellsten & KlefsjoÈ , 2000, Hoerl, 1998; KlefsjoÈ et al., 2001).”