Forrest W. Breyfogle III
Six Sigma author and consultant
Forrest W. Breyfogle III is a former IBM statistical consultant who founded Smarter Solutions, Inc. He wrote Implementing Six Sigma, published in 1999.
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About Forrest W. Breyfogle III
Forrest W. Breyfogle III took a Design of Experiments workshop while working at IBM in 1975, and it sparked his interest in statistical techniques. He later became a full-time internal statistical consultant there and retired from the company in 1992. That same year he founded Smarter Solutions, Inc., a firm offering Six Sigma training and consulting. Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods was published by Wiley in 1999. Its second edition won the Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 2004. He has written over a dozen books, including Management 2.0 and Leadership System 2.0. He acted as the subject matter expert for APQC's national benchmarking study of Six Sigma. Quality Magazine named him Quality Professional of the Year for 2011.