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Six
Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor:
Deployment Strategies for Financial Services, Health Care,
and the Rest of the Economy
by Ronald
D. Snee and Roger Hoerl, 2004
Published by Prentice-Hall
"Snee and Hoerl's . . . use
of case studies rounds out their assertion that Six Sigma
can and should be used to improve performance in all types
of businesses from finance to health care." - Jean Cherry,
Executive Vice President, Commonwealth Health Corporation
In Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor,
an American Society for Quality Book-of-the-Week, Tunnell
Principal and ASQ Shewhart Medalist Dr. Ron Snee and co-author
Roger Hoerl, a key leader in G-E's Six Sigma initiative, partner
once again to provide the first comprehensive, step-by-step
Six Sigma implementation guide for nonmanufacturing organizations.
Rather than defining Six Sigma as a narrow technical methodology,
the authors offer a holistic view of this process-focused
strategy, showing that Six Sigma works equally well across
all processes, products, and industries. Illustrated with
case studies from a variety of industries and businesses,
Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor explains how to adapt Six
Sigma's technical tools for the process improvement demands
most all businesses face.
Highlights / You will learn:
• A proven Six Sigma deployment roadmap
for
• non-manufacturing organizations
• Planning strategies, execution tactics,
• customized methods and tools
• Leveraging the immense value of Six Sigma
• in your environment
• Lessons from real-world case studies
• Best practices for driving project-by-project improvement
• Aligning the entire organization behind Six Sigma
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Leading
Six Sigma: A Step-by-Step Guide Based on Experience with GE
and Other Six Sigma Companies
by Ronald
D. Snee, and Roger Hoerl
Published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002
In Leading
Six Sigma, two of the world¨Ïos most experienced Six
Sigma leaders offer a detailed, step-by-step strategy for
leading Six Sigma initiatives in your company. Top Six Sigma
expert Ronald
D. Snee and
GE quality leader Dr. Roger W. Hoerl show you how to deploy
a Six Sigma plan that reflects your organization¨Ïos unique
needs and culture, while also leveraging key lessons learned
by the world¨Ïos most successful implementers.
Highlights / You will learn:
• How to hit the ground running: Providing
leadership, talent and infrastructure for a successful launch
• From launch to long-term success: Implementing systems,
processes and budgets for ongoing Six Sigma projects
• Getting the bottom-line results that matter most: Measuring
and maximizing the financial value of your Six Sigma initiative
• Four detailed case studies: What works and what doesn't.
Avoiding the subtle mistakes that can make Six Sigma fall
short
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Statistical
Thinking:
Improving Business Performance
by Roger Hoerl and Ronald
D. Snee, 2001
Published by Duxbury, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.,
2001
"This is THE primer that should be
mandatory reading for all Black Belts who really want to master
the statistical elements of Six Sigma. I heartily recommend
it also for Master Black Belts who must review in order to be
able to conduct Black Belt training." - Greg Watson, Past
Pres. American Society for Quality
Statistical
Thinking: Improving Business Performance prepares you for business leadership by developing your capacity
to apply statistical thinking to improve business processes.
Unique and compelling, this book shows readers how to derive
actionable conclusions from data analysis, solve real problems,
and improve real processes. In Technometrics, this book is called "probably the most practical basic statistics textbook that
has ever been written in a business context." The authors clearly
illustrate how to implement statistical thinking and methodology
to improve business performance.
Highlights
• The book begins
with a discussion of why statistical thinking is necessary and
helpful, and then provides case studies that illustrate how
to integrate several statistical tools into the decision-making
process.
• The authors facilitate and encourage an experimental
learning environment so the reader may develop competency by
applying the material to actual problems.
• Students have the opportunity to work in teams on case
studies in each chapter and on a course project.
• Because easy-to-use data analysis software is so widely
used and available, the book emphasizes conceptual understanding
over formulas and calculations.
• Formal statistical methods are, in most cases, illustrated
with Microsoft¡Ëc Excel, MINITAB™, and JMP¡Ëc. |
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Solving the Corporate Value Enigma
by Raymond L. Manganelli and Brian W. Hagen, 2003
Published by American Management Association
According to the authors, the average business fails to capture as much as 40% of its potential value -- leaving shareholders without the returns they deserve. To solve the problem, Solving the Corporate Value Enigma presents a step-by-step methodology for implementing a value structure system that lets companies capture their maximum value for greater shareholder return. The authors present guiding principles, sound methodologies, practical tools, and compelling case studies as they explain that four critical components must be synchronized to boost value: a company’s business model, its portfolio of holdings, its financial structure, and its management and operations. |
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