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Six Sigma in China
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ByㄩJennifer Chen, Targettech Consultant

Why Six sigma can work for you?

    The Greek character ※考§ (Sigma) is used as standard deviation in Math. And the ※Six sigma§ (6考) management means a index to know how big is our deviation to target and a process to help us to improve our process performance to a perfect status.The core-philosophy of six sigma is that if you can measure how many defects in your process, then you can find a way to remove them and be almost of ※Zero defect§.

     On later 1990, Motorola start to implement Six sigma to improve the quality of their production line and achieve excellent result. And this make Motorola as the winner of first McBridge award. After Motorola, Jack Welch, CEO of GE decide to launch Six sigma into their process quality as monitor index and achieve tremendous improvement on quality and financial result. Beside GE, many WW companies launch six sigma into their business and get similar results like Motorola and GE. In mainland China, six sigma is first introduced in 1996 and be familiar by people from later 2001. Mr. Qiu, the six sigma director of笢倓籵捅believe that ※We need to find a way to help us to keep exist in market to compete with our competitors and continuous growing and Six sigma is what we need today§

     Most companies in the world only perform their quality with 5 or 5.5 sigma level 每 this means the opportunity of 200 errors from 100 millions opportunity.

How is your performance today? And what you plan to be tomorrow? - Six sigma will be your best choice today.

Mis-understanding of Six sigma in China
   Before six sigma is introduced and is launched in your company, there are many preparations required to support the success of six sigma implementation. For most WW companies have implemented many improvement activities before they launch six sigma. These activities include goal management, human management and process improvement...etc. And their core-process is identified. Six sigma plays the role of enhancement to their existed improvement activities.For many companies in mainland China, they are 20 to 30 year old and not many experiences in improvements activities before they implement six sigma. So they need spend more attention on their current business process, management level and data-oriented system before formal implement the six sigma in their organization.

    Many consulting company and some business treat six sigma as a statistic knowledge training only and miss to take care of the foundation required to support the six sigma implementation. This will result that the pre-set goals can not achieved and loss your time and money.

Is there culture conflict with six sigma in Chinaˋ
    Six sigma is a customer-oriented, data-based culture change, to make commitment and fully support it*s implementation is very critical issue. If we plan to have six sigma be well implemented and executed in China business, the first challenge is the conflict with our current culture: six sigma will impact our thinking, change the human management to system management, change our experience based decision to science based decision, change our habit that no data to data-based decision.. etc. This is a continuous changing, step by step#

    Six sigma focus on the application of science, statistic and customer-oriented 每 and this help us to make our existing culture be more powerful and better to serve our customer in a new and effective way.

    Traditional company management is vertical line management. But today, to compete in current market and be survive, current company is changing their organization to process style, matrix functional management. Six sigma start to fill in the fresh energy to China business culture and make it be more powerful than yesterday.
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