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Total Quality Management - CII Institute of Logistics

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<strong>Total</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

Bird’s Eye View <strong>of</strong> Six Sigma<br />

5.1 Six Sigma<br />

In the last 25 years or more executives have been both exposed to and involved fairly<br />

extensively in the popular programs that include <strong>Quality</strong> Circles, Benchmarking, Zero<br />

Defects, <strong>Total</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Management</strong>, Customer Satisfaction, Data Mining, and Business<br />

Process Reengineering. They are meant to provide answers to complex industry<br />

problems. Very <strong>of</strong>ten, in practice, the executives and staff in many enterprises view these<br />

training programs with trepidation, and they are confident that these will fade way as<br />

time passes. It seems the next wave <strong>of</strong> the quality revolution that is currently impacting<br />

us is Six Sigma! Now you won't be able to either do a presentation or conduct a program<br />

without using the term "Six Sigma" somewhere in the middle.<br />

One may wonder if this is yet another business term coined by management pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />

and the elite corporate houses. No doubt a good degree <strong>of</strong> hype is associated with Six<br />

Sigma, as is generally encountered with every new management movement. It is in this<br />

context, we have to examine whether Six Sigma is a mere mantra or it is an effective<br />

action plan that can trigger a leapfrog jump in the corporate pr<strong>of</strong>itability.<br />

How Six Sigma is different from the rest? Is it a Breakthrough Strategy that can be<br />

likened to a renaissance in changing the mind set <strong>of</strong> the people in the organization? Is it<br />

entirely a new management tool or old wine in the new bottle? What distinguishes Six<br />

Sigma from the other methodologies <strong>of</strong> quality? In this section, an attempt is made to<br />

provide some kind <strong>of</strong> answers to these issues that are extremely important for any<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essional who is concerned with improving the bottom line as well as enhancing the<br />

quality image <strong>of</strong> his/her organization.<br />

<strong>CII</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Logistics</strong> 91<br />

Website: www.ciilogistics.com

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