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Six Sigma Quality Management-Assignment 1

Six Sigma Quality Management-Assignment 1

Q After reading What’s in a Name? It’s the Approach, Not the Name, consider the approaches or strategic initiatives your organization has taken to improve business processes. This could be an organization for which you currently work or volunteer. If you are not currently employed or would prefer not to discuss your own employer, interview a friend or family member. In reflecting on your organization, address the following questions: • How does your organization compare to GE or Johnson & Johnson regarding the strategic initiatives used to improve organizational processes? Use specific examples from the article provided, if possible. • Have any of the tools you researched in this week’s discussion topic been implemented? If so, what was the outcome? If not, why do you think the leaders of the organization are not taking advantage of these tools?

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The Six Sigma is a special type of strategic initiatives that can be used to enhance the performance of the organization. The Six Sigma is not a program or the performance stimulus, but it is a data-driven approach that would help an organization to improve the productivity and efficiency in the long run. Now many organizations use several different strategic initiatives without having the specific knowledge about the Six Sigma. In the past, I have worked with a retail company and after reading this article, I have found that my past company has followed some of the basic approaches to apply the strategic initiatives.