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These days, when I look around my house, I see more things made in other countries than ever before. Being a true lover of diversity and an adventurer at heart, balanced with loyalty to my country, I want to see the United States of America have the highest quality inventions, services and products on the market. It often surprises me, when I see such a lack of customer focus in the States. After all, aren't all the businesses in America founded on a government for the people by the people?

As a Six Sigma professional, there are many paths, (Six Sigma Lean, Six Sigma Improve, and Six Sigma Design) that can assist in defining the voice of the customer. Most companies do not want to spend the time executing all of the Six Sigma Design tools. As this is a very data intensive endeavor, what we need to realize is that Six Sigma is scalable to your business needs.

Before you can grow, as the business owner you must take into consideration the many challenges and benefits to expanding a business. It is not simply just a matter of providing additional services to a greater number of people. You must carefully plan the expansion while weighing personal and business capacities along with current market research. Failure to do this could risk the overall health and status of your business....

With America seeing one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression, it's no surprise that over 1 million individuals will file for bankruptcy this year. Many people have been putting off filing bankruptcy over the last couple years hoping that things were going to get better. According to the data, it seems to be getting much worse.

Unemployment is standing at 9.2% nationwide without taking into consideration the number of individuals that are partially employed or have just given up going back to work completely. These people fall off the radar and are no longer recorded as a statistic.

We've all heard over and over again how far the system of medicine, even medicine packaging has come since way back when. The mortality rate has decreased tremendously in even just the past few decades. Going to the hospital these days does not mean you are condemned to death, or to long-term care, but that you will receive professional treatment no matter what your height, weight, race, religious preference, sickness and so forth may be.

Seeing the distance we have made with all kinds of big things such as research, medication, diseases, and preventative measures, it's no wonder that we've made improvements on some of the smaller things in life as well.

This article is aimed at Business Managers who need to gain a basic understanding of the Agile Software Development process.

This is a very simplified explanation of the Agile process, it should not be used as a blueprint for running a project. Basically, you've heard about Agile and you want me to give you a quick introduction.

Let me get one thing out of the way first. Agile, does not mean cowboy slap dash programming. Agile software development is a highly disciplined and transparent process.

In most software development methodologies you create a set of requirement documents before any coding starts. This is not the case with the Agile methodology.

ATMs are wonderful creations, after all, they are designed with the consumer in mind because they allow people with a bank account to withdraw money from that account without delay. However, overtime, people have found that using cash machines can lead them open to being mugged and attacked for their money, their card and their PIN. However, while this is rare, it doesn't have happen, and there are ways that you can protect yourself at the ATM.

When you use a cash machine, you will be recorded on CCTV, this is something that all banks do in order to protect you from crime and prevent further crimes from happening. While this is designed to protect the customer, a lot of the responsibility for safety lies with the customer themselves, and so if you want to protect yourself, your money and your card when you're at an ATM, then here is what you need to do.