Best practices in lean six sigma process improvement : a deeper look /
"Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement takes A Deeper look at this high-potential science of success. Pitfalls and hidden opportunities are explained in simple terms that can help managers steer their companies' process improvement efforts toward sustained advantage in this...
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Hoboken, N.J. :
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| 100 | 1 | |a Schonberger, Richard. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Best practices in lean six sigma process improvement : |b a deeper look / |c Richard Schonberger. |
| 260 | |a Hoboken, N.J. : |b John Wiley & Sons, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 290 p. : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a pt. 1. Hyper-competition -- Magnitude advances in competitive standards and technologies -- Global leanness : an unstable phenomenon -- Big question : does lean beget financial success? -- Ultimate trend : improving the rate of improvement -- pt. 2. Improvement gone wrong--and made right -- Waste elimination, kaizen, and continuous improvement : misdefined, misunderstood -- The metrics trap -- The case against (much of) management goal setting -- pt. 3. Building a competitive fortress -- Fortress by culture -- Vengeful numbers -- Process improvement : stretching company capabilities -- Unique business models (big ideas) -- pt. 4. What goes wrong : impressive companies and their weak spots -- Does rapid growth put the brakes on lean? -- Losing their way--or not -- pt. 5. Leanness : a changing landscape -- Global lean champions : passing the torch -- How overweight companies get lean -- Flow-through facilities -- External linkages -- pt. 6. Why industries rank where they do -- Leanness rankings for thirty-three industrial sectors -- Electronics : a metamorphosis -- Motor-vehicle industry : earliest but lagging -- Aerospace-defense : OEMs are soaring; suppliers are not -- Other industries. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement takes A Deeper look at this high-potential science of success. Pitfalls and hidden opportunities are explained in simple terms that can help managers steer their companies' process improvement efforts toward sustained advantage in this era of global hypercompetition. Written by world-renowned best-practices pioneer Richard Schonberger, this eye-opening guide reveals invaluable benchmark data and guidance, prominently including long-term "leanness" data for over 1400 companies in thirty-six countries across thirty-three industrial sectors." "This broadly and deeply researched book provides the big picture and the details on what your corporation needs to succeed."--Jacket. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Six sigma (Quality control standard) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Total quality management. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Production management. | |
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