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March 31, 2009
Statistics
Statistics-The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
by Thomas Pyzdek
The quality and process improvement professions tend to rely heavily on statistical information. The very science of quality control can be said to have begun with Walter A. Shewhart's development of the control chart and discovery of the concepts of special cause and common cause variation. And where would Six Sigma be without statistics? But few would argue with the statement that there is a downside, and a dark side, to statistics. I'll present a few examples of good, bad, and ugly uses of statistics. Read more...

Leadership
Six Sigma Projects Management Support

by Peter Bersbach
The most critical item to the success of a Six Sigma project is management support. We always check and ask for it. But is what we ask for what we really want? Read more...

Management
Toyota Quality and the KISS Principle
by Thomas Pyzdek
If you've ever read The Toyota Way or Taiichi Ohno's original book Toyota Production system you'll be immediately struck by one observation: quality is simple. Toyota resolves most quality issues quickly because they limit the big quality killer: Read more...

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