Motorola Company

16K DRAM (single power supply ) technology was just a slight one although it fell to around seventy percent almost losing its market share . It subsequently recovered until it became one of top four firms that dominated the market of technology in stage V emerging as one of the leading suppliers with more than fifty percent of the market in 1985 (Swan , 1993 ,

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According to Praveen Gupta , a former Motorola employee who turned writer , Motorola 's Chief Executive Officer Bob Galvin invented the Six Sigma in 1986 as a management strategy

to improve performance , to renew the corporation , and to accelerate the improvement process . Over the past years , Motorola had been implementing new strategies on a trial and error manner in to find out what strategy will work for the company . Gupta cited that various initiatives were announced annually but no body ever knew how well they worked (p . 3 ) Gupta noted , during this time , Motorola had some improvement but nothing appreciable (p 4 . However , with the implementation of Six Sigma strategy , Motorola had experience an accelerated growth

However , Motorola 's success once again altered by market decline despite the existing Six Sigma strategy . Gupta pointed out that such decline was due to changing market conditions , changes in leadership strategic mistakes , and ignorance of Six Sigma as the source of Motorola 's woes . Mark A . Nash , Sheila R . Poling , and Sophronia Ward stated , the ultimate goal of Six Sigma was to to achieve a significant reduction in the number of defects that fall outside six standard deviations of the upper or lower specification limit to 3 .4 or less per million opportunities (p . 39 . According to them , the result of the implementation of the Six Sigma was outstanding ' as Motorola management realized that reducing this defect number to 3...