.6 ¦² Management Research

Six Sigma Management is an integrated systematic management way to achieve, maintain and maximize companies' success. Today, some excellent Chinese companies have attempted to adopt this advanced management pattern, but many of them have difficulties in how to combine it with their own practical situations effevtively and make it useful in Chinese particular circumstances. Based on case study and practice demonstration, adopting induction and deduction, the author is about to study this problem thoroughly in this thesis.This thesis consists of 5 parts. Part 1 introduces the background and history of Six Sigma Management, including its origination in Motorola, its development in GE and its popularity in the world, and concludes 5 reasons why many excellent foreign companies adopt Six Sigma Management enthusiasticly. Part 2 is an emphasis in this thesis. In this part, the author elaborates the fundamental thoughts and elite of Six Sigma Management, particularly in its 8 fundamental thoughts, its essence, its improvement and management strategies, Six Sigma improvement model (DMAIC) and DFSS model (DMADV). In part 3, after researching the successful cases of foreign companies and considering domestic companies' practices, the author put forwards that an OFSS based on the Black Belt team will make enterprises successful in Six Sigma Management. In this part, the author's research involves in the structure and scale of OFSS, the critical roles in OFSS, the training in OFSS and the stimulation for a Six Sigma team. In part 4, on the basis of careful investigations in successful experiences on Six Sigma Management from foreign companies, the author generalizes a few of successful points in order to provide an implementing guidance of Six Sigma Management for Chinese enterprises, mainly including the applicability for Six Sigma Management, the implementing approachs for Six Sigma Management, how to choice Six Sigma projects and the implementing procedures of Six Sigma Management, etc. Part 5 is another emphasis and innovation in this thesis. In this part, through a variety of investigations including visiting, interviewing and questionnaire inquiring, the author sums up the successful experiences of domestic enterprises which carry out Six Sigma Management, and demonstrates that Six Sigma management is effective in china and the contents on OFSS and Six Sigma management implementing guidance which the author brings forward are meaningful to Chinese companies because of similarities in implementing incentives, implementing approachs and developping tracks of Six Sigma Management between foreign companies and Chinese companies. Meanwhile, the author induces three benefits which Chinese companies that adopt Six Sigma Management can gain and puts forward 9 problems which Chinese companies adopting Six Sigma Management should be wary of on condition that Six Sigma Management's applicable conditions have changed in domestic enterprises.