October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 43m
English
book
Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor: Deployment Strategies for Financial Services, Health Care, and the Rest of the Real Economy
by Ronald D. Snee, Roger W. Hoerl
Overview
Nonmanufacturing organizations are rapidly discovering Six Sigma's immense potential to reduce costs, improve performance, grow revenue, strengthen focus, and empower people. To achieve these results in your organization, start right here.
Ronald D. Snee and Roger W. Hoerl cover every level of Six Sigma implementation in nonmanufacturing environments: deployment planning and strategy, project execution, methods, statistical tools, and more. Throughout, they illuminate key concepts with case studies from a wide range of businesses and functions. Drawing on their unsurpassed consulting experience, they systematically identify hurdles to success—and best practices for overcoming them.
Whatever your Six Sigma goals, this book will help you achieve them faster—with less pain, cost, or risk.
Using a proven Six Sigma deployment roadmap for nonmanufacturing organizations
Planning strategies, execution tactics, customized methods and tools
Leveraging the immense value of Six Sigma in your environment
Realistically assessing the benefits of Six Sigma in nonmanufacturing organizations
Driving ongoing success: lessons from real-world case studies
Best practices for driving project-by-project improvement
Aligning the entire organization behind Six Sigma
From leadership commitment to team building—and beyond
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