Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management: Masaaki Imai

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From Library Journal
In this sequel to his popular business/quality management book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success (1986), Imai offers a step forward?continuous improvement (kaizen) applied to the concept of continuous improvement in the workplace (gemba). The book reflects a definite operations bias. Indeed, [...]

The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance: Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh

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Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect-performance objectives that has been employed to acclaim at leading corporations like General Electric. Its name is derived from the eye-catching statistical target of operating with no more than 3.4 defects per one million chances, but Peter Pande, Robert [...]

The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams: Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh

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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 [...]

Lean Six Sigma : Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed: Michael George

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The Breakthrough Program for Increasing Quality, Shortening Cycle Times, and Creating Shareholder Value In Every Area of Your Organization Time and quality are the two most important metrics in improving any company’s production and profit performance. Lean Six Sigma explains how to impact your company’s performance [...]

Power of Six Sigma: Subir Chowdhury

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From Publishers Weekly
Using a format similar to that in Spenser Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese?, Chowdhury (Management 21C) has created a fictional story that exemplifies the benefits of the business philosophy called Six Sigma. In Chowdhury’s rendering, Joe, a middle-aged manager unexpectedly laid off from [...]

The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation (Voices That Matter): Marty Neumeier

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Branding guru Marty Neumeier understands that we are all very busy, so he crafts his books to make a big impact in less than 200 pages. His previous bestsellers, The Brand Gap and Zag are provocative, informative, and inspirational books [...]

The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance: Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh

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Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect-performance objectives that has been employed to acclaim at leading corporations like General Electric. Its name is derived from the eye-catching statistical target of operating with no more than 3.4 defects per one million chances, but Peter Pande, Robert [...]

Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management: Bob Paladino

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“…is a must read for any top level executive interested in the real-world application of corporate performance management.” (Quality Progress, May 2007)
“Paladino lives up to his commitment to his readers with his practical examples of organizations using the implementation of a CPM Office to integrate [...]

The Six Sigma Leader: How Top Executives Will Prevail in the 21st Century: Peter S. Pande

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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 [...]

Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook: Rath & Strong

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Praise for Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook "Six Sigma tools, particularly DFSS, are critical drivers of organic growth. DFSS can be used to significantly improve a new product, service, or process anywhere. Rath & Strong’s detailed approach to how your company can use these [...]