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We’re already more than a decade into this new century, and companies are still waiting for the “next big thing” to surface.

As the 20th century came to a close, U.S. manufacturers realized the need to transform thinking from the product to the system.

In his book, “Fooled by Randomness,” celebrated author Nassim Nicholas Taleb says, “This high-yield market resembles a nap on a railway track.

During the oil embargo, as drivers lined up at gas stations, the market for small cars took off.

Green manufacturing might seem like a flavor of the month. Perhaps it seems to have cropped up as “An Inconvenient Truth” hit the scene.

Since 2010, ASQ has been pleased to host the World Quality Month website, offering organizations around the world an opportunity to celebrate successes and share results for others to learn from.

Parties to legal disputes often reflexively consider suing one another in litigation. As an alternative, parties can use alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), including arbitration and mediation.

With the attention Six Sigma has been receiving, I thought it might be interesting to offer my perspective as someone who worked from the inside of a large organization to launch a major Six Sigma initiative.

In his well-renowned 1959 lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” Physicist Richard Feynman challenged his colleagues in the scientific community to think more practically and abandon looking for answers on the large scale—i.e. the composition of the universe, gravitational effects on planets—and instead look at matter on a smaller scale, the atomic scale.