After six sigma -What's next?

Quality Progress

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-36

  Bisgaard, Søren ^a,b,c   De Mast, Jeroen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ASQ ^*  (Netherlands)

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EID: 31344448055     PISSN: 0033524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. Information about the various methods, approaches and quality leaders discussed in this article can be found in the Quality Progress "Quality Glossary," www.asq.org/pub/qualityprogress/past/0702/qp0702glossary.pdf.
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8. Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality, see reference 3.
9. Søren Bisgaard and Johannes Freiesleben, "Six Sigma and the Bottom Line," Quality Progress, September 2004, pp. 57-62.
10. John Ryan, "Making the Economic Case for Quality," www.makegoodgreat.org/quality/articles/WP_ECFQ.pdf (case sensitive).
11. J.M. Juran, Quality Control Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1951.
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16. Noel Wilson, "Six Sigma: Beyond Manufacturing," Six Sigma Forum Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 17.