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Volume 2, Issue 4
1 April 1998
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Review Article| April 01 1998

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8057
Print ISSN: 1368-3047
© MCB UP Limited
1998
Measuring Business Excellence (1998) 2 (4): 20–22.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025550

Three years ago the board of General Electric (GE), one of the world's biggest corporations, made the unilateral decision to implement Six Sigma across its businesses with the aim of reaching the concept's goal of 3.4 defects per million opportunities by 2000.

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