Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2012
Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2011
Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more.
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