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New trend, new challenges
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FROM
THE EDITOR
During the past year, we have seen a major new trend: integrate ing Six Sigma with other initiatives. In the last issue of Six Sigma Forum Magazine (November 2002), we focused two of the departments, "Your Opinion" and "Current Literature," on lean Six Sigma, the integration of Six Sigma with lean thinking.
Now William J. Hill and Willie Kearney describe how they are combining Six Sigma and lean within Honeywell (p. 34). There are many commonalities bet...
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Project Management: The Managerial Process
Project Management Journal
; Project Management: The Managerial Process by Clifford F. Gray and Erik W. Larson Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000, ISBN: 0072347864, hardcover, 496 pp., $81.04. The number of textbooks on the topic of project management has increased exponentially in recent years. Some of these texts are referred to as
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NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT THEORY: A CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT
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