Why Six Sigma?Written by Peter Peterka
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Six Sigma means having no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities, or 99.99966% high-quality, in any process, product, or service. Implementing Six sigma management philosophy and process aims to achieve six sigma level of 3.4 defects per million opportunities or less. Although zero defects is goal, as a measure, Six Sigma will drive a firm toward achieving higher levels of customer satisfaction and reducing operational costs. More importantly, Six-Sigma provides a systematic, disciplined, and quantitative approach to continuous improvement. Through application of statistical thinking it uncovers nature of business variation and its affect on waste, operating cost, cycle time, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Six Sigma.us is a leading consulting firm supporting companies implementing Six Sigma Process by offering Six Sigma Training and Six Sigma Consulting. We can show you how implementing Six Sigma process can help you learn more about your business processes and improve your bottom line.

Peter Peterka is the Principal Consultant in practice areas of DMAIC and DFSS. Peter has eleven years of experience performing as a Master Black Belt, and has over 15 years experience in the industry as an improvement specialist and engineer working with numerous companies, including 3M, Dell, Dow, GE, HP, Intel, Motorola, Seagate, Xerox and even the US Men's Olympic Team. Visit his website at http://www.6sigma.us/
| | Imagine If Everyone Working In Your Office Was In Synch?Written by Cavyl Stewart
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Now any small business can be as competitive and productive as any big company with access to same high quality communication, organization and collaborative tools that before now were only available to companies with large IT budgets. Even better, 4Team supercharges MS-Outlook with all those, “Wouldn’t it be nice,” features without requiring Exchange Server and without any recurring licensing fees. In fact, 4Team is so inexpensive that you probably spend more on toner cartridges than you’ll ever spend with this work-saving, profit-building innovation. You simply select number of users, pay one-time paltry per-seat fee and you are good to go. Recognizing that average small business person is going to look at all features that 4Team offers and say, “Yea, right, when pigs fly,” they even offer a 30-day, 100% free trial so you can see that it's all true. Imagine how your efficiency will improve when you and your staff can drag and drop new shared projects into MS-Outlook and instantly add, delete or change team members, deliverables, priorities, due dates and even appoint project managers and team leaders. How easy will it be to schedule meetings with your staff, even those who work remotely, when you can click one link and see all of their calendars side by side? Imagine your field sales or service people being able to duck into an Internet café or Starbucks®, pick up their email messages, update their calendar and electronically drop off their new orders with a simple point and click. The features in 4Team for Outlook are so powerful that you’ll forget you are using MS-Outlook. It’s like layering a whole new level of efficiency onto your organization without huge capital expenditure. Why not give it a try and see for yourself?

Cavyl Stewart is the author of "135 Hot Tech Tips for Small Business Owners." To Download your free copy, just visit: http://www.find-small-business-software.com/135_tips.php
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