April 04, 2003 16:18
Arizona State University Joins Six Sigma Federation
TEMPE, Arizona, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Arizona State University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences has joined the Six Sigma Federation to provide Six Sigma due diligence and to train industrial engineering graduate students in Six Sigma.
The Six Sigma management strategy has improved quality and the bottom line for General Electric, Ford, DuPont, and many other large companies doing billions of dollars in business. The Six Sigma Federation aims to make Six Sigma available to the 36,000 mid-size and millions of small businesses in the United States and to help people apply Six Sigma on a personal level.
"The College is looking forward to a strategic partnership with the Six Sigma Federation," CEAS Dean Peter Crouch said. "The growth of the United States is primarily in small and medium size companies, which reinforces the need for programs like the one established by the Six Sigma Federation."
Over the last 20 years Six Sigma has experienced tremendous growth and change. Generation one Six Sigma, as practiced at Motorola, focused on defect reduction. Generation two Six Sigma, as practiced at General Electric, focused on cost reduction. Generation three Six Sigma focuses on value creation.
"First and second generation were like plugging leaks. Now we're not just stopping water from running out but adding to the cup," said Mikel Harry, president and chairman of the board of the Six Sigma Management Institute.
The Six Sigma Federation is a collection of companies and institutions focused on the dissemination and advancement of Six Sigma. It aims to not only to train people in the Six Sigma management strategy and to assist companies in implementing it, but also to create new knowledge about Six Sigma. The Federation will advance Six Sigma in service, transactional, manufacturing and government enterprises around the world.
"The College of Engineering at ASU has the capability and capacity to facilitate the aims of the Federation and to play a major role in the future of Six Sigma on an institutional scale," Harry said. "The current leadership of [ASU President] Michael Crow and [CEAS Dean] Peter Crouch is extremely progressive in that it wants to reach out to the world and take part in the evolution of a revolution."
After a company recognizes a need for Six Sigma, it must then do "due diligence" to determine how and who to implement it. The Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program at ASU is designed to make it simple for executives to get the information they need. Rather than sorting through the websites of thousands of Six Sigma consultants, reading a few books on the subject and visiting several companies that have implemented the strategy, executives can travel to ASU and get all the information they need in one place.
Executives will walk away from the Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program with implementation and deployment plans as well as a specific focus for their company. In addition, participants will learn how to set goals for Six Sigma that are consistent with their company's strategic plan and how to recognize players from pretenders in the Six Sigma arena.
"If due diligence is not conducted properly, a corporation can easily go off on a wrong path," Harry said. "It's very easy to corrupt a Six Sigma initiative, and we find that the point of corruption is due diligence."
The first Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program will be held April 28-May 1 at the ASU Downtown Center in Phoenix. Harry and Phong Vu, former director of corporate Six Sigma at Ford Motor Company, will lead the program. This program has open enrollment; future offerings can be focused on one company if desired.
In addition to the Due Diligence Leadership Program, the Department of Industrial Engineering is developing a specialty in Six Sigma for its Masters of Industrial Engineering degree.
"It's exciting to work with and address problems using the experience of Mikel Harry and his associates as well as professors in the College," Dean Crouch said.
Harry was one of the developers of the Six Sigma strategy at Motorola, and he founded Motorola's Six Sigma Research Institute. After leaving the company, Harry implemented Six Sigma at Asea Brown Boveri as corporate vice president before founding the Six Sigma Academy in Scottsdale, Ariz. Harry is now the primary force behind the Six Sigma Federation.
The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is a dynamic community of researchers and educators in engineering and construction nestled in one of the nation's fastest-growing public universities. For more information on the Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program, contact the CEAS Center for Professional Development and Distance Learning at 480-965-1740 or go on the web at http://cpd.asu.edu/
SOURCE Arizona State University
/CONTACT: Linley Erin Hall of Arizona State University, +1-480-965-5854,
linley.hall@asu.edu /
/Web site: http://www.asu.edu/asunews
http://cpd.asu.edu /
Arizona State University Joins Six Sigma Federation
TEMPE, Arizona, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Arizona State University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences has joined the Six Sigma Federation to provide Six Sigma due diligence and to train industrial engineering graduate students in Six Sigma.
The Six Sigma management strategy has improved quality and the bottom line for General Electric, Ford, DuPont, and many other large companies doing billions of dollars in business. The Six Sigma Federation aims to make Six Sigma available to the 36,000 mid-size and millions of small businesses in the United States and to help people apply Six Sigma on a personal level.
"The College is looking forward to a strategic partnership with the Six Sigma Federation," CEAS Dean Peter Crouch said. "The growth of the United States is primarily in small and medium size companies, which reinforces the need for programs like the one established by the Six Sigma Federation."
Over the last 20 years Six Sigma has experienced tremendous growth and change. Generation one Six Sigma, as practiced at Motorola, focused on defect reduction. Generation two Six Sigma, as practiced at General Electric, focused on cost reduction. Generation three Six Sigma focuses on value creation.
"First and second generation were like plugging leaks. Now we're not just stopping water from running out but adding to the cup," said Mikel Harry, president and chairman of the board of the Six Sigma Management Institute.
The Six Sigma Federation is a collection of companies and institutions focused on the dissemination and advancement of Six Sigma. It aims to not only to train people in the Six Sigma management strategy and to assist companies in implementing it, but also to create new knowledge about Six Sigma. The Federation will advance Six Sigma in service, transactional, manufacturing and government enterprises around the world.
"The College of Engineering at ASU has the capability and capacity to facilitate the aims of the Federation and to play a major role in the future of Six Sigma on an institutional scale," Harry said. "The current leadership of [ASU President] Michael Crow and [CEAS Dean] Peter Crouch is extremely progressive in that it wants to reach out to the world and take part in the evolution of a revolution."
After a company recognizes a need for Six Sigma, it must then do "due diligence" to determine how and who to implement it. The Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program at ASU is designed to make it simple for executives to get the information they need. Rather than sorting through the websites of thousands of Six Sigma consultants, reading a few books on the subject and visiting several companies that have implemented the strategy, executives can travel to ASU and get all the information they need in one place.
Executives will walk away from the Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program with implementation and deployment plans as well as a specific focus for their company. In addition, participants will learn how to set goals for Six Sigma that are consistent with their company's strategic plan and how to recognize players from pretenders in the Six Sigma arena.
"If due diligence is not conducted properly, a corporation can easily go off on a wrong path," Harry said. "It's very easy to corrupt a Six Sigma initiative, and we find that the point of corruption is due diligence."
The first Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program will be held April 28-May 1 at the ASU Downtown Center in Phoenix. Harry and Phong Vu, former director of corporate Six Sigma at Ford Motor Company, will lead the program. This program has open enrollment; future offerings can be focused on one company if desired.
In addition to the Due Diligence Leadership Program, the Department of Industrial Engineering is developing a specialty in Six Sigma for its Masters of Industrial Engineering degree.
"It's exciting to work with and address problems using the experience of Mikel Harry and his associates as well as professors in the College," Dean Crouch said.
Harry was one of the developers of the Six Sigma strategy at Motorola, and he founded Motorola's Six Sigma Research Institute. After leaving the company, Harry implemented Six Sigma at Asea Brown Boveri as corporate vice president before founding the Six Sigma Academy in Scottsdale, Ariz. Harry is now the primary force behind the Six Sigma Federation.
The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is a dynamic community of researchers and educators in engineering and construction nestled in one of the nation's fastest-growing public universities. For more information on the Six Sigma Due Diligence Leadership Program, contact the CEAS Center for Professional Development and Distance Learning at 480-965-1740 or go on the web at http://cpd.asu.edu/
SOURCE Arizona State University
/CONTACT: Linley Erin Hall of Arizona State University, +1-480-965-5854,
linley.hall@asu.edu /
/Web site: http://www.asu.edu/asunews
http://cpd.asu.edu /
