When Jack Welch took over General Electric Co. in 1981, the Conn.-based firm’s annual revenues were roughly $27 billion. By the time he left it two decades later, GE’s revenues had reached almost $130 ...

Jack Welch, who died this week at the age of 84, cast an immense managerial shadow as the CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001. He was the very model of a modern chief executive during the ...

Ries is, at first glance, very different from the quality gurus who presided–either physically or in spirit–over GE in the last century. In the 1950s William Edwards Deming taught the Japanese to ...

Over a generation ago, engineer Bill Smith, working at Motorola, developed a management system called Six-Sigma, designed to help companies avoid quality problems in their products and business ...

A business is run on the work of different cross-functional teams with the understanding that each person adds unique expertise and skill sets. Continuing to develop those skills through ...

Six Sigma is a highly effective approach which creates improvement in business processes by advancing each sector of an enterprise. It uses both statistical and analytical methods to reduce variation ...

Six Sigma is a business strategy developed by Motorola in the 1980s. The strategy focuses on eliminating inefficiency by using a narrowly defined systematic approach. When businesses saw how well it ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in model-based software, announced the world's largest manufacturer of polycarbonate, GE - Plastics, a division of ...