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Leap Technologies has entered into an agreement with Motorola University, Motorola Inc.’s corporate university, to provide corporate Six Sigma solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola University will provide Six Sigma expertise and services to organizations looking to combine…
Pitney Bowes, a provider of integrated mail and document management solutions, has chosen PowerSteering Software to track and report on its new Six Sigma quality initiatives. Pitney Bowes implemented the PowerSteering tracking system parallel to the startup phase of its Six Sigma programs…
Worldwide Conventions and Business Forums has scheduled its 2004 "Successfully Implementing Six Sigma in Financial Services" conference. The conference, which is generally regarded as the preeminent Six Sigma conference for the financial service industry, will be held June 23 and 24 at the…
Six Sigma Management Institute, a consulting and training venture associated with the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University, and IdealHire, a provider of human resources services, have formed the Six Sigma Global Registry, a joint venture for driving Six Sigma…
The International Society of Six Sigma Professionals will hold its fifth annual leadership conference June 2-4 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Keynote speakers at the event include W. James McNerney Jr., 3M chairman and CEO; Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Simon…
Leap Technologies has entered into an agreement with Motorola University, Motorola Inc.’s corporate university, to provide corporate Six Sigma solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola University will provide Six Sigma expertise and services to organizations looking to combine…
Tyco International Ltd. has selected PowerSteering Software’s enterprise program management solution to support Six Sigma and lean initiatives in all five of its business units. At full deployment, employees across the company will use PowerSteering to manage thousands of Six Sigma…
Six Sigma Qualtec, a provider of performance improvement training, consulting and technology, has launched a telecommunications practice. SSQ’s practice is designed to help traditional telecommunications providers such as Regional Bell Operating Companies, wireless phone firms and…
Instantis, a provider of software solutions for managing enterprise performance initiatives has established a Six Sigma executive advisory board. Instantis created the board with hopes of bringing together key practitioners to define the company’s future direction and advise Instantis in…
Aceva Technologies Inc., a developer of working capital management solutions for global enterprises, has increased use of Six Sigma methods by its enterprise clients seeking to improve financial process work flow to optimize working capital management. To document its work, the company…
Leap Technologies has released three new training programs for improving Six Sigma results. The latest additions to Leap’s repertoire come on the heels of more than three years of research and testing with Six Sigma organizations, including Cott Beverages, IMC Global, Standard Register…
GOAL/QPC has published Six Sigma for Business Leaders, (GOAL/QPC, 2004) a book authored by Gregory H. Watson. The book provides practical guidance to executives and managers as they design and implement Six Sigma programs. It’s the fourth in GOAL/QPC’s series of books on Six Sigma. "Our…
A recent study indicates that most leading companies target quality by incorporating lean simplification and demand flow techniques with Six Sigma defect reduction. The survey, conducted by Best Practices LLC on behalf of the Global Benchmarking Council, features 84 companies in…
Seagate Technology, a leading disc drive company, has earned sixsigmaIQ’s annual Six Sigma Excellence Award for the best design for Six Sigma project. Seagate received the award for its project, "Deployment of Design for Six Sigma in Seagate’s U Series Disc Drive." Other finalists for the…
George Group, DeLeeuw Associates Inc. and iSixSigma have formed a strategic alliance to create an Internet portal for the financial services industry, focused specifically on the application of Six Sigma. The cobranded portal, named iSixSigma Financial Services, is intended to facilitate…
IXPERION has scheduled this year’s American and European Six Sigma in Finance conferences for April 20 and 21 in Chicago and May 25 and 26 in London. The events will respond to the growing demand for an unbiased information platform focused exclusively on Six Sigma for finance operations…
The Strategic Research Institute will hold the second annual Six Sigma Strategy for Health Care forum, April 28-29 at the Millennium Knickerbocker in Chicago. Financial pressure, limited resources, workforce shortages and increased scrutiny on medical errors have hit the health care sector…
The second annual "Successfully Implementing Six Sigma in Health Care" conference will be held March 25 and 26 in New Orleans. Among issues that will be discussed are: Adapting Six Sigma to the health care environment and overcoming cultural and professional differences to other…