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...Welch has also transformed GE into a higher quality organization through his thorough implementation of Six Sigma. An overarching business improvement strategy that originated at Motorola in the 1980s, Six Sigma is a quality control initiative that aims to increase product quality. To achieve a six sigma level of quality, a process must produce no more than 3.4 defects per million parts...
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...threshold issue, the accusations against Phelan are suspect. Phelan is criticized for long-standing administrative failings in the department, though she only held the position of chair for less than two years. Moreover, a report from FAS Personnel issued after they conducted a thorough organizational assessment of the department during Phelan’s first year as chair pointed to no failings on Phelan’s part, but acknowledged instead the “total faculty consensus that [Phelan’s] dual role of Chairperson of VES and Director of the Carpenter Center is a completely unmanageable...
...chair, Phelan wrote in September 1999 a detailed letter to Knowles outlining her concerns for the future of the department and her plans and ideas to build it. In January 2000 she received her first response from the dean, in which he acknowledged her “very thorough analyses and thoughtful recommendations for the future of Visual and Environmental Studies,” but wrote that the absence of Executive Dean of the Faculty Nancy Maull “will make it very hard for us to think through all the pedagogical, structural, and administrative, and educational issues...
...He’s thorough, and he’s conscientious. He’s solicitous. He really does get input. He listens to all sides,” Huidekoper says...