Management Is Prediction --Dickeson

Other industries are doing this in order to constantly improve quality and management by prediction. The fad of the moment is "Six Sigma" variation. Jack Welch, past CEO, decreed that General Electric would strive for this. But in printing we're still mired in the past, diddling with job costs based on the Farmer's Almanac. "What's a Sigma, Mr. Welch?" we ask. All we want is to be able to say, within limits, what we can expect a few days at a time...like the television weatherman on the local news.