There are several issues about the Six Sigma approach to quality that bother me. First, Six Sigma is a performance standard that hardly anyone can understand. Secondly, it’s an engineering approach to quality management.

Question: Name the modern-day politicians who best exemplify the Seven Deadly Sins of greed, envy, gluttony, sloth, lust, pride, and anger. The last one is a group of people, not a politician.

Many of us will look back on 2008 as the year when gas prices soared to unbelievable highs and our 401ks dropped to unbelievable lows.

Second only to leadership, strategic planning has been likely more written about than any other management subject.

(TBM Consulting Group: Durham, North Carolina) -- While general cost pressures continue to be the main challenge for manufacturers globally, rising energy costs have reached a new level of concern according to TBM Consulting Group’s sixth annual “Multinational Manufacturing Pulse.” The stu

(Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis: United Kingdom) -- In an effort to investigate the effect of different mechanical architecture options, developers used FloTHERM thermal simulation software to develop a new mechanical design for the Philips Aurea 42-inch LCD television. Thermal simulation a

Respecting a quality manager’s opinion is meaningless unless there’s enterprisewide buy-in to ideas and quality initiatives.