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		<title>Should You Get Your Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) from ASQ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I got this email: Comment: I am basker from NJ, and I have a PMP certification, I want to get a six sigma black belt certification &#8212; are there other certifications out there other than one from ASQ ? that you would suggest and what is the cheapest and quickest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1282&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPIE Chairs: Here&#8217;s Help Processing Your Reviewer Ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: You are a Chair for a SPIE conference, your review team has provided numerical ratings for all your oral and poster submissions, and now you have to sort through all the numbers and prepare a draft program. The Solution: Use R! 1. Go into MySPIE into the &#8220;Review Presentations&#8221; section 2. Click on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1274&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My 2012 Resolution is Myopium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dictionary defines myopia as narrow mindedness, the inability to see things that aren&#8217;t right in front of you. However, the positive spin on myopia is that you can choose to hold only those things in your vision that support what you want to achieve, and where you want to go in life. As a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1267&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collins and Hansen&#8217;s Great By Choice: A Story of Quality Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Collins, author of Built to Last (2004) and Good to Great (2001), released a new compendium of his research this fall entitled Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that these authors have also stumbled upon the importance of quality consciousness – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1259&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quality Consciousness: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) In a previous article, I described the notion of quality consciousness that I’m currently preparing an article about. To achieve quality consciousness, we ask the very important question (cf. ISO 8402) “What are the totality of characteristics of YOU that bear upon YOUR ABILITY to satisfy the stated and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1247&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Passed My ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I very recently took my ASQ CSSBB exam and passed! Here&#8217;s what I think helped me: 1. I studied for about 4 weeks (2 weeks very gently, 1 week much-more-work-because-the-exam-is-getting-closer, and 1 week of panicked, freaked out all nighters) using these great references that I wrote up tons of comments about. 2. I took about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1231&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Pass Your ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Or more appropriately maybe… how I did it, and what I wish someone had blogged about before I sat for the exam! This is the chronicle of my CSSBB experience.) I just took my ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) exam… and PASSED! On the FIRST TRY!! (My reaction upon hearing the news was… “I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1222&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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