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An implementation blueprint for SIX SIGMA!
"The Six Sigma Way demystifies Six Sigma with a real-world ''how-to ''guide. A good investment for any business planning to launch Six Sigma."
John Biedry, VP Quality & Compliance, Sears Home Services.
Cost reduction...productivity improvement...customer retention...these are the promises of the Six Sigma quality management system. The Six Sigma Way reveals how GE, Motorola, and numerous other companies are successfully using Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, and increase profits. Now you can read the roadmap for implementing Six Sigma in your manufacturing or service organization.
The authorswho have worked with some of the most visible Six Sigma companies including GEprovide step-by-step guidance and practical implementation guidelines. Whether your goal is to fix a process problem or implement Six Sigma company-wide, The Six Sigma Way will help you develop an approach customized for your company''s needs and the challenges of the twenty-first century business environment. The Six Sigma Way:
Addresses the challenges and politics of launching, leading, and training people for Six Sigma.Focuses on implementing the major steps and quality improvement tools in the Six Sigma system.Features insights, comments, and examples from business leaders and managers using Six Sigma in their organizations.
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A brief introduction to Six Sigma for employees
Six Sigma is today''s most talked-about system for improving the quality of organizational processes. Written by bestselling author Peter Pande,What Is Six Sigma? is a concise summary of the core themes and processes of Six Sigma. Unlike almost all other books on Six Sigma, it is written for the employees of organizations rolling out Six Sigmanot just managers. This helpful overview describes what Six Sigma is, why companies are implementing it, and how employees can make it a success in their own organizations.
Based on the bestselling The Six Sigma Way, this accessable introduction to Six Sigma answers typical employee questions, concerns, and even skepticism about this revolutionary program. Includes:
The six themes of Six SigmaA five-step roadmap to Six Sigma implementationThe 10 basic tools of Six Sigma, with an entire page devoted to each
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This companion guide to the bestselling The Six Sigma Way focuses on the project improvement teams that do the real, in-the-trenches work of Six Sigma—measuring performance, improving quality and saving millions in the process.
The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook is a highly practical reference for team leaders and members, outlining both the methods that have made Six Sigma successful and the basic steps a team must follow in an improvement effort. Written by three veteran trainers of Six Sigma “Black Belts” and teams at GE, Sun Microsystems, and Sears, this hands-on guide helps teams obtain the skills they need to identify a product, service, or process that needs improvement or redesign; gather data on the process and the rate of defects; find ways to improve quality up to a Six Sigma level—just 3.4 defects per million; and much more.
* Includes dozens of data-gathering forms and Six Sigma tools and worksheets* Describes key improvement methods in a concise “how-to” format with checklists and tips
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What Is Design for Six Sigma? reveals how to use DFSS to design new products, services, and processes so that quality problems can be solved before they ever start. Topics include:
How to design new products and processesThe DMADOV implementation process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Optimize, and Verify)How to redesign existing processes and services
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Through impressive results, Six Sigma has proven to hundreds of organizations around the globe that settling for “good enough” won''t work. Now Peter S. Pande, foremost expert on change leadership and coauthor of the bestselling The Six Sigma Way, challenges leaders to seek a new standard of leadership excllence and apply principles inspired by Six Sigma to take their companies to a new level.
The Six Sigma Leader defines successful leadership in the 21st Century. With illustrative examples and proven strategies such as “The 10 Second Rule” (taking that extra time to make sure you''re asking the right questions to get the information you need), the book offers techniques that link leadership improvement to real business results, and explores
Six Sigma Leadership: the core principles of Six Sigma leadership and the 21st-century challenges of balance and flexibilityChange and Constancy: the role of change in leadership and how to achieve greater return on your change portfolioCertainty and Doubt: the myth of leader infallibility and ways to confidently combine facts and intuitionSpeed and Deliberateness: the benefits and perils of “speed at all costs” and a set of key disciplines that enable greater speedTeamwork and Independence: the sources of organizational barriers and the leadership practices that can eliminate themNow, Tomorrow and Next Year: the management of business change by different time horizons: short-, mid-, and long-termCustomer First…and Last: why customers are so critical, yet can also be a detriment to long-term business healthBringing Six Sigma Leadership to Life: the factors likely to favor and inhibit successful adoption of Six Sigma LeadershipDriven by a vision of great leadership, The Six Sigma Leader is an essential resource for managers at all levels and a call to action for any leader seeking to create a legacy of achievement.
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The Definitive Work on Six Sigma—Revised and Fully Updated
Upon its publication in 2000, The Six Sigma Way was among the very first books to clearly explain the impressive benefits of Six Sigma’s improvement-driven and customer-centric approach to business leaders and managers. It revealed how GE, Motorola, and other companies used Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, reduce costs, build customer loyalty, and increase profits. Corporate leaders around the world heeded the call and began implementing the tools of this world-changing performance improvement.
In short, this book changed the world of business and organization improvement forever.
Now, this author dream team has revisited the subject to bring you fully up to date about how Six Sigma has been used—for better and for worse—during the past 14 years.
This new edition of The Six Sigma Way retains everything from the original classic—what Six Sigma is, how it works, and how to adapt it to your particular needs—while providing valuable new sections on lessons learned and setting the record straight regarding myths and misunderstandings perpetuated over the years. This all-in-one guide provides:
Practical Six Sigma implementation guidelines anyone can understandNew insights from managers who successfully applied the advice from the first editionDetailed case studies from such companies as Adobe, Macy’s, and StarwoodHands-on “maps” that guide you through key decisions you must makeThe definitive guide to successfully implementing Lean Six Sigma approaches into any organization is essential for any manager who wants to stop thinking about building a continuous improvement culture—and actually make it happen.
Business has changed dramatically in recent years. Being second best used to be an option; today, being the best is the only way to survive. Take charge of your company’s future and make positive changes The Six Sigma Way.