Implementation of Six Sigma in service industry
As providing high quality services becomes the major focus in many service organisations, a better understanding of the unique characteristics of services offered will be of advantage. This in turn will help assist in identification of areas to improve by implementation of quality program initiat...
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Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2014
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8609/1/jqma-10-2-paper7.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8609/ http://www.ukm.my/jqma/jqma10_2a.html |
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Summary: | As providing high quality services becomes the major focus in many service organisations,
a better understanding of the unique characteristics of services offered will be of advantage.
This in turn will help assist in identification of areas to improve by implementation of quality
program initiatives such as Six Sigma in such organisation. Many service processes are not
visible, intangible, and even immeasurable. As such, they are not amendable to improvement
using a Six Sigma approach. This thinking has turned out to be rather presumptuous at least
for the health care, banking, and call centre services which have successfully implemented
Six Sigma in their daily operations. Other services such as education and hospitality are also
beginning to apply Six Sigma quality initiatives. This paper provides summary of limitations
and suggestions for implementation of Six Sigma in the service industries |
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