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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
• From Quality Digest - Thomas Pyzdek on Six Sigma and TOC - "If you choose the wrong projects it's possible to make big "improvements" in quality and productivity that have absolutely no impact on net profit. One approach uses the theory of constraints (TOC) to determine which project(s) to pursue." This article recognizes the meaning that a contraint management viewpoint can bring to typically local efforts like Six Sigma. Using Eli Goldratt's classic PQ problem from The Haystack Syndrome, Pyzdek points to the TOC view as a path to avoiding disappointment in improvement programs.
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