Manag Res (2009) 2:44–55 DOI 10.1007/s12063-009-0020-8 Six Sigma failures: An escalation model Satya S. Chakravorty Received: 20 May 2009 / Revised: 13 August 2009 / Accepted: 17 August 2009 / Published online: 28 August 2009 # Springer Science + Business Media‚ LLC 2009 Abstract Despite the pervasiveness of Six Sigma programs‚ there is rising concern regarding the failure of many Six Sigma programs. One explanation for many Six Sigma failures could be escalation of commitment. Escalation
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STUDY OUTLINE FOR CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO Operations Management 1. Operations management deals with the design and management of products‚ processes‚ services and supply chains. It considers the acquisition‚ development‚ and utilization of resources that firms need to deliver the goods and services their clients want. 2. What are the three basic functions in business organizations? 1)operation‚ or product service knowledge 2) finance 3) marketing 3. A supply chain consists
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Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C Contents Introduction 5 Who Should Read This Document 5 Organization of This Document 6 See Also 6 Why Objective-C? 7 Object-Oriented Programming 8 Data and Operations 8 Interface and Implementation 9 The Object Model 12 The Messaging Metaphor 13 Classes 15 Modularity 16 Reusability 16 Mechanisms of Abstraction 18 Encapsulation 18 Polymorphism 19 Inheritance 20 Class Hierarchies 21 Subclass Definitions 21 Uses of Inheritance
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1) Shell Program To check the greater number between two numbers #!/bin/sh [sourcecode language=’sh’] echo Enter a Number read num1 echo Enter Number read num2 if test $num1 -ge $num2 then echo $num1 is greater than $num2 else echo $num2 is greater than $num1 fi 2) Shell Program to Check a number is even or odd [sourcecode language=’sh’] echo Enter a Number to Find Even or odd read num b=`expr $num % 2` if [ $b -eq 0 ] then echo Even number else echo Odd Number fi 3) Shell
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Computer programs can help us solve everyday issues that might seem impossible. Household budgeting is an issue that burdens many Americans. Every individual is ultimately responsible for managing his or her finances. Developing a computer program that can help individuals manage their budget will greatly improve their life quality. The program would have to follow the program development cycle model and use the modular approach. Identifying Budget Issues The biggest challenge that many American
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Introduction to Java Programming Brief History Java was created in 1991 by James Gosling‚ Mike Sheridan‚ and Patrick Naughton of Sun Microsystems and was released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java Platform. Initially called Oak‚ in honor of the tree outside Gosling’s window‚ its name was changed to Java because there was already a language called Oak. The original motivation for Java was the need for platform independent language that could be embedded in various consumer
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Etymology The first recorded use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called “The yong mans gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait I haue read the truest computer of Times‚ and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed‚ and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number. It referred to a person who carried out calculations‚ or computations‚ and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the 19th century the word began to take on its
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INTRODUCTION Six Sigma was developed at Motorola in mid 1980’s when Motorola Company declared 10X reduction in product-failure. Six Sigma was originally used to compute the defects during manufacturing processes‚ and to trim down the faults at every level in the processes. Motorola declared millions of savings by using this method. GE also used Six Sigma and declared that it save up around US $ 300 million to operating income. From the last decade there has been a major initiatives by various industries
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For Internal Use Only Team 8 Executive Summary Six Flags has had great success over a number of years through providing a one-stop entertainment destination complete with thrilling roller coaster rides and an exciting atmosphere. In recent years‚ however‚ Six Flags has been struggling and is now in dire need of a boost to help regain its success in the Theme park industry. We focused our secondary research on past and current articles on Six Flags as well as the theme park industry as a whole
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CHARACTERISTICS AND DATA TYPES OF VISUAL BASIC INTRODUCTION The characteristics and data types of Visual Basic elucidated its advantages and disadvantages. Visual Basic is a popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows (Morley‚ 2008). It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)‚ which uses a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to create and modify code (Capron‚ 2004). It enables Rapid Application Development (RAD) of graphical user interface
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