About iSixSigma

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Founded in May of 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.

iSixSigma provides the most comprehensive and essential Six Sigma resources available to businesses anywhere.

As the world’s leading publisher and content provider for the Six Sigma community, iSixSigma helps hundreds of thousands of monthly readers learn new skills, advance their careers, and contribute to the success of their organizations through a wide range of articles, tools, and practitioner forums.

Six Sigma Companies

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

Companies such as Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, Singapore Telecommunications, Allied Signal, Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, and many more routinely link their private Intranet sites directly to the iSixSigma website so their employees can gain access to its resources. iSixSigma’s brand is recognized and trusted throughout the world.

We have since expanded to cover topics that are more relevant for everyday readers to help them make more informed decisions about products that benefit from improved manufacturing.

Autos (Cars, Trucks, and SUVs) – Our team of automotive data journalists has published thousands of articles in the automotive sector. Our specialties include reviewing defect rates in manufacturing, long term reliability based on recalls, lemon laws, poor reviews, and errors per 1,000 vehicles manufactured. We also look at pricing for different vehicles to determine the best and worst values, as well as the most and least expensive cars, trucks, and SUVs in each category. Examples of how we use this data to help readers includes:

  • The Least Reliable Trucks To Buy Today
  • The Worst Reviewed SUVs That Users Regret Buying
  • The Most Fuel Efficient Cars On The Road
  • The Most Affordable Cars For new Buyers

Home Appliances (Refrigerators, Dishwashers, Stoves) – isixsigma’s team of home appliance experts brings their experience in manufacturing and supply chain excellence to help readers choose which products are the best investment today, and which should be avoided. We review reported errors and defects for dishwashers, refrigerators, compressors, ranges, mixers, and more. When combined with recalls and consumer complains we help readers determine:

  • The Most and Least Reliable Refrigerators To Own
  • Which Dishwashers Are The Best Value Today
  • Which Mixers and Countertop Appliances Will Last Forever

Personal Electronics – Few industries touch as many lives daily as personal electronics. From computers, cellphones, smartwatches, bluetooth headphones, to printers and smart devices we are surrounded by them. Process improvement and reliable manufacturing matter more ever here and separate unreliable electronics destined for the junk drawer from those than last years, which devices have great battery life and features from those than are frustrating and unusable. Using isixsigma’s understanding of manufacturing we help readers decide:

  • The Most Reliable Smartphones Today
  • The Best Headphones For Podcasts and Music
  • The Least Reliable Smartwatches That You Should Avoid

Our Purpose

To help you build a company with world-class performance 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 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

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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.

History

2000

  • May: In two weeks between leaving Citigroup and returning 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 on the 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 a 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, is 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 its 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

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 went 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 (version 4) 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.

2018

  • November: iSixSigma launches (version 5) with a fully responsive website that combines iSixSigma, iSixSigma Jobs, and the iSixSigma Store (rebranded from the iSixSigma Marketplace) into a single website (previously it was three separate websites) — as we prepare for our 20th year of operation in 2019.

2021

  • April: iSixSigma.com acquired by Venti Network, LLC to continue the great work started by the founding team and help spread the love and understanding of Six Sigma to more people and organizations around the world.

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