Theory And Practise Of Six Sigma Management

As a bran-new management system, Six Sigma Management was born in MOTOLORA, which was confronted with big challenge in 1980's. The great success made MOTOLORA becoming a industry leader in globe and awarded BALDRIGE Prize, the top prize in American aspect of quality. In the next 20 years, Six Sigma Management achieves more and more reputation in both industry and academy. In the latest 2 years, the hot wave of Six Sigma Management is being introduced to China.Currently Six Sigma Management is still in initial stage in China, owing to poor understanding, shortage of integration of knowledge and case, etc. It is necessary and significant to sort and summarize the relative theory and practice, so that we could understand the true meaning of Six Sigma and taste the essential help from Six Sigma.With the extensive study and long time working experience, this paper consists of three parts mainly. The first part introduces the elements of Six Sigma theory and deployment, such as development history, definition, purpose, methodology, etc. The second part presents two distinctive examples of Six Sigma project to show the infinite charm of Six Sigma in the process of continuous improvement. The third part states some popular views about Six Sigma in practice. On the basis of them, some suggestion is made for Chinese corporations to implement Six Sigma program in different aspects of management successfully.