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This paper reviews Six-Sigma and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as process improvement tools for management. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is also discussed as a way for organizations to address specific business needs. Given this basis of the CMM, organizations may greatly improve their organizational environments and processes through evolution from a setting where few processes exist to a setting in which processes are continuously monitored and systematically improved. Reliance upon the individual heroics of personnel may evolve to manifest a strong sense of teamwork that exists across the organization. Caputo (1996) states that CMM implementation is only a predictor of performance, not a limit to performance within organizational environments. Finally, environments that employ risky technological environments and ad hoc data collection methodologies may evolve into settings where proactive technological embellishment and defined data analysis are manifested to generate process improvements.