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Q-Skills is an essential component of any six sigma training program. Most importantly, Q-Skills avoids many of the well documented errors, misconceptions and fallacies of six sigma theory. These are described in detail in the following articles :
  1. "Sick Sigma." Dr A. D. Burns, Quality Digest, April 2006.
  2. "Tail Wagging It’s Dog." Dr A. D. Burns. May 2006
  3. "The Six Sigma Zone." Dr Donald Wheeler
  4. "The Confusion Over Six-Sigma Quality", Pandu Tadikamalla, Quality Progress. Milwaukee: Nov 1994. Vol. 27, Iss. 11
  5. "Notes on The Six Sigma Concept" William Latzko
  6. "The Mist of Six Sigma" Alan Ramias
  7. "Freedom from Command and Control" John Seddon 2005
  8. "Lean Six Sigma - An Oxymoron?" Mike Micklewright 2006
  9. "Deming Management Philosophy and So-Called Six Sigma Quality" David Wayne, Motorola, 2006

Q-Skills ensures that your six sigma program will be accurate and free from the common six sigma errors. Q-Skills is designed to train people in the successful use of the six sigma problem solving tools. Q-Skills focusses on the most common and practical tools, which have been shown to provide the greatest productivity gains and cost savings. Q-Skills may be run on networks or intranet.

Q-Skills includes an interactive DMAIC module that helps guide teams in the correct use of tools and provides access to appropriate training and tools as teams need it.

Q-Skills online six sigma training provides a cost-effective way to give all your employees and managers core six sigma training, in a consistent and motivating manner. It makes life easy for your project leaders by ensuring that all team members have a good understanding of the quality tools they need to use prior to joining their Six Sigma Team.

Additional benefits of using Q-Skills include:

  • Your six sigma training costs are reduced. Q-Skills is available on demand. It teaches your people the Problem Solving Tools in half the time taken by conventional training.

  • Q-Skills integrates with your Learning Management System (LMS), making it easy to monitor six sigma training activity.

  • Once a user has completed the six sigma training, Q-Skills’ toolkit includes a unique and easy to use, Brainstormer / Cause & Effect Diagramming tool.

Q-Skills suits all industries, as you can see from our diverse user base: Microsoft, GE, The City of Sunnyvale, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Florida Power & Light, Hewlett-Packard, Nations Bank and IRS, plus hundreds more.

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