The Benchmarking Workbook provides an exceptionally practical guide for implementing or augmenting benchmarking procedures as an integral part of change process and quality management. Keeping the requirements of customers foremost, the author explains how to identify benchmark needs and initiate a plan. To assure full participation, he explains how to address an organization’s culture, set goals, and tap into the creativity of participants. The approach, while uniquely simple, is highly effective as is demonstrated through an illuminating case study. The book includes a group of tools that will allow benchmarking techniques to be applied in a variety of organizations.

Benchmarking Workbook: Adapting the Best Practices for Performance Improvement

Business & Money

Gregory H. Watson

Management & Leadership

Productivity Press

An easy-read summary of the best practices associated with the Six Sigma approach; as Greg Watson puts them into a context for senior management to use as a guideline for implementing Six Sigma in their companies. It is intended to support leadership teams as they design their Six Sigma initiative and manage the execution of Six Sigma through aligning it with their business strategy. This book supports executive- and champion-level Six Sigma training for business leaders and process owners. This practical text, answers fifty questions that an organization must address to initiate, develop, and sustain a successful Six Sigma deployment. Some sample chapter titles are: - What does an executive sponsor do? - How can Six Sigma improve financial value? - Why is a formal project charter important? - What is the DMAIC problem-solving process? - How does the Improve step of DMAIC work? Winner of the ASQ - Philip B. Crosy Medal. Author and Philosopher of the Global Quality Community A unique feature of the book is that it provides answers to fifty of the most frequently asked questions from managers about the implementation and management of Six Sigma programs. These questions are derived from the experiences I encountered as a consultant to over twenty-five Six Sigma program deployments in a variety of organizations.

Six Sigma For Business Leaders: A Guide To Implementation

Goal/QPC

The objective of this book is expansive: its seeks to establish a comprehensive overview of DFSS for an audience of business leaders. Provides a rigorous response to the CEO who wants practical solutions to business problems, and not quality theories disguised as guidance. For the practitioner in design, engineering, production or marketing, the book provides well-written steps, discussion and specific direction on the major aspects of delivering customer value, from problem solving approaches to understanding production constraints. Design for Six Sigma: Innovation for Enhanced Competitiveness, is a major addition to the literature of quality. It will be required reading for those involved in quality management and will become the reference of choice for those whose only option is to rapidly understand and meet customer requirements. The book outline helps to illustrate the breath of topics that are contained in this pioneering systemic definition of DFSS: Introducing Design for Six Sigma Managing Design Programs Managing Product Design Projects Measuring Program and Project Progress Engineering Value into Designs Planning Innovative Design Developments Building Reliability into Products Experimenting to Create Robust Performance Controlling Product Realization

Design for Six SIGMA: Innovation for Enhanced Competitiveness

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Benchmarking Workbook: Adapting the Best Practices for Performance Improvement

Six Sigma For Business Leaders: A Guide To Implementation

Design for Six SIGMA: Innovation for Enhanced Competitiveness