Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook
Author: Rath Strong
Achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction and greater profitability with this essential handbook! Six Sigma is a proven and highly effective business initiative for improving customer satisfaction and increasing the efficiency of processes. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook highlights the critical factors that make or break implementation, offers key best practices for getting it right the first time, and offers real-life examples and case studies that light the path to success. With Rath & Strong, you'll get an overview of the tools, methods, approaches, benefits, and risks that are associated with each element of the methodology.
Table of Contents:
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
About the Company: Rath & Strong: A Distinguished History | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Ch. 1 | What Is Six Sigma? | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Why Six Sigma? | 15 |
An Interview with William Quinn, Johnson & Johnson | 25 | |
Ch. 3 | Six Sigma and Its Application in Different Industries and Functions | 28 |
An Interview with Dr. Joseph M. Juran | 35 | |
An Interview with Robert W. Galvin, Motorola Inc | 41 | |
An Interview with Dr. Mikel Harry, Six Sigma Academy, Inc | 50 | |
Ch. 4 | Roles and Infrastructure | 57 |
Ch. 5 | The Nondelegable Role of Executives | 84 |
An Interview with Dave Cote, Honeywell International | 105 | |
An Interview with Kenneth W. Freeman, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated | 114 | |
Ch. 6 | Lean and Six Sigma | 121 |
Ch. 7 | Work-Out and Six Sigma | 131 |
An Interview with Mo Kang, Zurich Financial Services Ltd | 138 | |
Ch. 8 | Organizational Culture and Six Sigma | 141 |
An Interview with Randy H. Zwirn, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation | 154 | |
Ch. 9 | The Customer Connection | 169 |
An Interview with Ruth Fattori, Conseco | 186 | |
Ch. 10 | Process Improvement-DMAIC | 196 |
An Interview with Stephen J. Senkowski, Armstrong Building Products | 211 | |
Ch. 11 | Design for Six Sigma | 219 |
Ch. 12 | Process Management | 245 |
An Interview with Timothy W. Hannemann, TRW Space & Electronics | 261 | |
Ch. 13 | Managing with Dashboards | 265 |
Ch. 14 | Preparing for Six Sigma | 276 |
Ch. 15 | Launching Six Sigma | 289 |
An Interview with John C. Plant and Bryce Currie, TRW Automotive | 302 | |
Ch. 16 | Cross-Cultural Aspects of Deploying Six Sigma | 311 |
An Interview with William Quinn, Johnson & Johnson | 317 | |
Ch. 17 | Stabilizing, Extending and Integrating Six Sigma | 328 |
Ch. 18 | Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Six Sigma Deployment | 349 |
Ch. 19 | Change Management and Communications | 357 |
Ch. 20 | Black Belt Selection and Development | 392 |
Ch. 21 | Project Selection | 406 |
Ch. 22 | Project Reviews | 428 |
An Interview with Francois Zinger, ALSTOM | 444 | |
Ch. 23 | Replicating Results and Managing Knowledge | 450 |
Ch. 24 | Measuring and Auditing Results | 458 |
Ch. 25 | Developing Change Leadership Capacity | 478 |
App. A | Basic Six Sigma Concepts | 487 |
App. B | Case Study: Six Sigma in Small and Medium Enterprises | 496 |
App. C | DFSS Case Study | 507 |
Notes | 540 | |
Index | 547 | |
About the Contributors | 559 |
Microeconomics: Principles and Applications with Xtra! CD-ROM and InfoTrac
Author: Robert Hall
Microeconomics: Principles and Applications provides a lively, rigorous introduction to basic economic theory and its applications. It has been carefully crafted in terms of both content and supporting pedagogy to keep readers focused on learning and applying the central ideas used in economic analysis. In-text Internet links and a dedicated Web site provide opportunities and exercises for readers to access and analyze additional real-world economic applications.
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Hall (economics, Stanford U.) and Lieberman's (economics, New York U.) introductory college text explains the basic principles of economics and how economists use them to understand the world. The updated second edition features an optional appendix on using consumer and producer surplus to gauge efficiency, and an entirely new final chapter, "Using All the Theory: The Microeconomics of Domestic Security." All data tables and figures have been updated, and answers to even-numbered problems and exercises are now included in the back of the book. The accompanying CD-ROM contains several additional online learning tools. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)