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September 26th, 2011

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Design For Six Sigma Experts At Joe Ficalora & Associates Will Lead Your Company To Success

When in search of training or consulting in any industry, naturally you seek out the most excellent person for the job. Joseph P. Ficalora is a Master Black Belt with extensive experience in Design for Six Sigma [DFSS] consulting and training for the Aerospace, Electronics, Automotive, Packaging, Plastics, Glass, and Medical Device Industries. With over twenty years of experience in engineering and management, he can assist your company in growing your top line sales or improve your bottom line leading your company to success.

Joseph P. Ficalora was previously available only through a larger consultancy. Now, Joe is independent and available at a fraction of the cost. He and other professionals, who have partnered with him, are available as consultants, trainers, and project mentors to those companies seeking product development help or deploying Design for Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma.

Joe Ficalora & Associates is providing Design for Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma for client needs across the globe. Joe is a thought leader and contributor of various DFSS programs and has personally trained and mentored over 1500 Black Belts and projects. In addition, he has conducted over 20 executive workshops, including plant leadership sessions, executive overviews, and leadership deployment workshops.

What is Design for Six Sigma?

Design for Six Sigma is an innovative methodology that seeks to identify the proper tools and techniques needed to design in more value during new product development while creating and using higher quality data for key development decisions.

DFSS has various phases and roadmaps such as:

•    CDOC

•    IDOV

•    DMADV

•    And more…

DFSS however, usually follows a sequence beginning with Voice of the Customer [VOC] and then Quality Function Deployment [QFD].

The goal of a Design for Six Sigma is to increase the revenues and attract more customers to a company. This methodology achieves this goal with every project, developing products and services that better meet customer needs than competing alternatives.

Why Choose Joe Ficalora & Associates?

At Joe Ficalora & Associates, they believe that there are 15 benefits they offer, that set them apart from the rest:

1.    Directness – They deal with the primary of the consultancy.

2.    Terms – Simple and direct contracts, not fifteen page contracts designed to slant things to the consulting company.

3.    Speed – Quick decisions, no bureaucracy.

4.    Cost – You are not paying for overhead personnel.

5.    Flexibility – They deal with the owners/consultants to allow for more possibilities than an overhead command & control structure.

6.    Transparency – No “bait and switch” with consultants from a consultancy that is trying to simultaneously satisfy 20 or more different customers.

7.    Focus – You are not just another customer, you are THE customer.

8.    Leadership – You get an experienced, seasoned MBB, with pedigree, twenty years of design experience and over a decade of Voice of the Customer consulting as a consultant.

9.    Foundations – The leadership and ownership are one in the same, with clear focus on how and why the consultancy is run.

10.    Billing – You will receive billing the way you want it: in your format, right each time, and prepared by those who performed the work, not by another ‘department’.

11.    Listening – They practice what we preach, your voices count here. Few consultancies are led by VOC experts, with deep experience in making DFSS a reality.

12.    Openness – Zero layers of management here, and we are committed to doing what’s most important to satisfy you, our customers.

13.    Trust – They say what they do and do what they say, knowing your counting on them to follow through on commitments.

14.    Locale – They work in your area, with no attempt to “remotely control” how things are done from some far-away central headquarters.

15.    Training Materials – They work with you to develop and customize only what you need and nothing more.

Not sure where to begin? Ask about their financial analysis; with just a 1 day on-site visit and the correct financial date, Joe Ficalora & Associates can get your business back on the track to success. As deployment leaders and advisors for over a decade, Joe Ficalora & Associates understand the issues at hand when designing and deploying Lean Six Sigma and DFSS. For more information about Joe Ficalora & Associates or Design for Six Sigma, visit joeficalora.

About the Author

Joe Ficalora & Associates provides consulting and six sigma training, six sigma development, Design For Six Sigma, voice of the customer etc. Which helps accelerate the development process of your business. For more information please visit www.joeficalora.com.

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