About iSixSigma

Purpose & Values
What We Do
What We Publish
Who We Are
Advisors
History
What Does the “i” in iSixSigma Stand For?

Founded in 2000 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, by Michael Cyger, iSixSigma is a diversified, high-tech B2B media business dedicated to providing essential information, research and how-to knowledge to help businesses and organizations worldwide improve execution.

More than 70% of the Fortune 100 companies in America are regular readers of iSixSigma.

Our Purpose

To help you increase business efficiency by providing engaging, educational and entertaining content.

Our publishing focus areas include Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, project management, change management…and a host of other process improvement methodologies.

Our Values

Subject Matter Expertise: We provide the most comprehensive information about Lean Six Sigma worldwide. It is the best source for unbiased content, in large part because the information comes directly from you – Lean Six Sigma leaders and practitioners.
Objectivity: We practice what we preach. We look for, and to, data and statistical analysis internally as well as externally.
Integrity: We operate with honesty and uprightness. We do not sell advertising disguised as unbiased input.
Diversity: We find authors and encourage diversity of thought, strategies and tactics because we know there is not one solution for every problem.
Community: We foster an inclusive, worldwide community.

What We Do

Reaching hundreds of thousands of people each month through its websites, books, videos, podcasts, and subscription newsletter services, iSixSigma champions the idea that breakthrough process improvement can be accomplished by anyone within an organization. Our offerings include:

iSixSigma.com – has provided the most comprehensive and essential resources available to businesses at every stage of their Lean Six Sigma maturity and professionals at every skill level. Hundreds of thousands of monthly online readers learn new skills, advance their careers and contribute to the success of their organizations through a wide range of articles, blog posts, tools and a discussion forum.

iSixSigma Marketplace – is an online store for templates, project examples, research reports, e-books, training materials, e-learning courses and much more – all delivered electronically for immediate download. The iSixSigma Marketplace is dedicated to providing excellence business management products for the business professional, student or instructor.

iSixSigma Job Shop – is the world’s largest clearing house for job candidates and employers in the Lean Six Sigma industry. It provides job seekers with targeted Lean Six Sigma jobs from leading companies around the world, and employers with a database that includes tens of thousands of resumes from Lean Six Sigma candidates.

iSixSigma Live! – organizes and programs a number of industry-specific and custom conferences every year, as well as an annual Summit & Awards, the premier event for Lean Six Sigma professionals around the world. In addition to these events, iSixSigma Live! also produces series of webinars, and social and networking parties.

What We Publish

We publish on topics that help companies become more intelligent and productive, including

Lean
Lean Six Sigma
Leadership
Change Management
Theory of Constraints
BPM
…and a host of other methodologies.

Who We Are

Michael Cyger, Founder and Publisher
Michael Cyger is an entrepreneur, businessman, investor, speaker and author. He received his business education in corporate America at GE and Citigroup, leadership training at Crotonville (GE’s John F. Welch Leadership Center), and ability to solve problems through formal education in engineering, GE’s prestigious Edison Engineering Program, years of Six Sigma training, and lots of practice.

Cyger is a certified Green Belt at GE Power Systems in 1996, served as a Master Black Belt for GE Capital Commercial Equipment Finance, and worked on a Six Sigma deployment at Citigroup.

Erin Ducceschi, Editor in Chief
Erin Ducceschi is an award winning editor who can solve problems and deliver results. She is the founding editor of iSixSigma Magazine where she oversaw growth of paid subscriptions at Fortune 500 organizations to 18,500, and currently oversees the editorial direction of all iSixSigma publications.

Ducceschi is a certified Black Belt from GE Capital.

Katie Barry, Editor
Katie Barry is editor of iSixSigma. Barry began her tenure with the iSixSigma family as editor of Real Innovation and The TRIZ Journal. Previously, Barry held editorial positions at Fenwick Publishing Group Inc. and AMN Healthcare Inc. She also worked at the Children’s Defense Fund and served in the correspondence office of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House.

Barry is Yellow Belt trained.

Liviu Siteanu, E-Commerce Manager
Liviu Siteanu is a high-tech industry veteran with 17 years of experience in VoIP, networking, conferencing, Internet services and high availability. He held leadership positions in sales, marketing and operations in companies such as Adaptec, HearMe, Medrecs and CionSystems. Liviu has a bachelor’s degree in information systems. As the e-commerce manager for iSixSigma, he is responsible for the iSixSigma Marketplace and Job Shop.

Siteanu is a certified Black Belt.

Advisors

iSixSigma has assembled an Editorial Advisory Board that helps it provide practical and high-quality content to business professionals practicing Lean Six Sigma. The board consists of Lean Six Sigma practitioners who are strong proponents of the methodology, representing different areas of expertise, industries and nationalities.

Current members of the Editorial Advisory Board are:

Ruben Coronado, Guilford Performance Textiles
Gary Cox, Canada Post
Holly Duckworth, Kaiser Aluminum
John Ettles, Virgin Media
Bob Hildebrand, Xerox Corp.
Thomas Kling, The Dow Chemical Co.
Pradeep Mahalik, Suzlon Wind Energy
Antonio Pedini, Chrysler Group LLC
Mike Potosky, Motorola Inc.
William Rushing, McKesson Corp.
Peter Sherman, Emory University and Cbeyond Communications
J.D. Sicilia, U.S. Dept. of Defense
Karen Welch, Abbott Medical Optics

History

2000

May: In two weeks between leaving Citigroup and returning back to GE, Michael Cyger works non-stop to launch iSixSigma as a portal to openly publish content and allow business professionals to share and learn from each other. He worked every evening after his day job and one full day a weekend adding resources and programming the website to better serve the Lean Six Sigma community.

2002

May: With the community growing rapidly, Michael Cyger took a leap of faith by quitting the security of his job at GE to devote himself to the fledgling enterprise, just months before the birth of his first child.

2003

February: iSixSigma enters into a partnership with GE Healthcare to launch iSixSigma Healthcare, serving the needs of medical and healthcare professionals.
March: iSixSigma enters into a partnership with Six Sigma Advantage to launch iSixSigma Software/IT, serving the needs of information technology and software development professionals.
July: iSixSigma launches the iSixSigma Job Shop to connect employers and job seekers with Lean Six Sigma opportunities.

2004

February: iSixSigma enters into a partnership with George Group and DeLeeuw Associates to launch iSixSigma Financial Services, serving the needs of the financial services industry.
May: iSixSigma enters into a partnership with Valeocon Management Consulting to launch iSixSigma Europe, serving the needs of European professionals in their implementation of Lean Six Sigma.
August: iSixSigma Job Shop launches full-service recruiting.

2005

January: iSixSigma launches iSixSigma Magazine, the premier print magazine dedicated to Lean Six Sigma professionals. iSixSigma Magazine had secured 1,000 paid subscriptions before going to press in December, 2004.
September: iSixSigma launches a research division and acquires SixSigmaCompanies.com, which becomes the foundation of the iSixSigma Blogosphere.

2006

March: iSixSigma Magazine redesigns and relaunches website.
March: iSixSigma Magazine offers digital edition, serving corporations with entire-company access via IP address and single sign-on.

2007

July: iSixSigma launches the iSixSigma Marketplace to fulfill the need for practitioner templates, training materials and productivity tools.

2008

February: iSixSigma.com, along with parent company CTQ Media, are sold to Ideal Media LLC, a division of London-based Schofield Media Group.
May: iSixSigma Live!, the in-person conference and event division of iSixSigma, is launched and hosts first social networking event in Seattle, Washington. More than 130 Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement professionals showed up to network and socialize.
October: iSixSigma Live! produces the first U.S. Department of Defense CPI/Performance Symposium for 300+ invitation-only delegates, a number that would grow to 700+ in subsequent years.

2009

January: iSixSigma Live! hosts the premiere iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards in Miami, Florida.

2011

Feb: iSixSigma Job Shop, Marketplace, Magazine and Live! websites are completely redesigned, including information architecture, site design, and a suite of highly customized content management tools.
July: The parent company of iSixSigma loses funding as a result of the struggling American economy and the business shuts down. The website would “go dark” a month later after vendors go unpaid.
November: iSixSigma founder, Michael Cyger, bids and wins auction to purchase distressed assets, intellectual property and content of iSixSigma, promising rebirth of iSixSigma.com.

2012

January: iSixSigma relaunches with a new look at feel, improved social media functionality, the addition of video content and a re-commitment to creating the strongest and largest community of Lean Six Sigma professionals in the world.

What Does the “i” in iSixSigma Stand For?

Many have asked about the “i” in “iSixSigma.” The answer is multi-faceted:

The “i” is to answer the question, “Do you use Six Sigma?” You could answer, “Yes, I Six Sigma.”
It stands for Internet, the original publishing medium of iSixSigma.
It represents the information about Lean Six Sigma that can be found on iSixSigma.