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 and members, outlining both the methods that have made Six Sigma successful and the basic steps a team must follow in an improvement effort. Written by three veteran trainers of Six Sigma “Black Belts” and teams at GE, Sun Microsystems, and Sears, this hands-on guide helps teams obtain the skills they need to identify a product, service, or process that needs improvement or redesign; gather data on the process and the rate of defects; find ways to improve quality up to a Six Sigma level―just 3.4 defects per million; and much more. * Includes dozens of data-gathering forms and Six Sigma tools and worksheets * Describes key improvement methods in a concise “how-to” format with checklists and tips

The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams

Business & Money

Pande, Peter S.

Neuman, Robert P.

Cavanagh, Roland R.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

What Is Design for Six Sigma? reveals how to use DFSS to design new products, services, and processes so that quality problems can be solved before they ever start. Topics include: <ul>
<li>How to design new products and processes </li>
<li>The DMADOV implementation process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Optimize, and Verify) </li>
<li>How to redesign existing processes and services </li>
</ul>

What is Design for Six Sigma

Pande, Peter

Neuman, Robert

Cavanagh, Roland

Business Culture

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 by Six Sigma to take their companies to a new level. The Six Sigma Leader defines successful leadership in the 21st Century. With illustrative examples and proven strategies such as “The 10 Second Rule” (taking that extra time to make sure you're asking the right questions to get the information you need), the book offers techniques that link leadership improvement to real business results, and explores <ul>
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 Six Sigma Leadership: the core principles of Six Sigma leadership and the 21st-century challenges of balance and flexibility </li>
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Change and Constancy: the role of change in leadership and how to achieve greater return on your change portfolio </li>
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Certainty and Doubt: the myth of leader infallibility and ways to confidently combine facts and intuition </li>
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Speed and Deliberateness: the benefits and perils of “speed at all costs” and a set of key disciplines that enable greater speed </li>
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Teamwork and Independence: the sources of organizational barriers and the leadership practices that can eliminate them </li>
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Now, Tomorrow and Next Year: the management of business change by different time horizons: short-, mid-, and long-term </li>
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Customer First…and Last: why customers are so critical, yet can also be a detriment to long-term business health </li>
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Bringing Six Sigma Leadership to Life: the factors likely to favor and inhibit successful adoption of Six Sigma Leadership </li>
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Driven by a vision of great leadership, The Six Sigma Leader is an essential resource for managers at all levels and a call to action for any leader seeking to create a legacy of achievement.

The Six Sigma Leader: How Top Executives Will Prevail in the 21st Century

The Definitive Work on Six Sigma―Revised and Fully Updated Upon its publication in 2000, The Six Sigma Way was among the very first books to clearly explain the impressive benefits of Six Sigma’s improvement-driven and customer-centric approach to business leaders and managers. It revealed how GE, Motorola, and other companies used Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, reduce costs, build customer loyalty, and increase profits. Corporate leaders around the world heeded the call and began implementing the tools of this world-changing performance improvement. In short, this book changed the world of business and organization improvement forever. Now, this author dream team has revisited the subject to bring you fully up to date about how Six Sigma has been used―for better and for worse―during the past 14 years. This new edition of The Six Sigma Way retains everything from the original classic― what Six Sigma is, how it works, and how to adapt it to your particular needs―while providing valuable new sections on lessons learned and setting the record straight regarding myths and misunderstandings perpetuated over the years. This all-in-one guide provides:
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<li>Practical Six Sigma implementation guidelines anyone can understand </li>
<li>New insights from managers who successfully applied the advice from the first edition </li>
<li>Detailed case studies from such companies as Adobe, Macy’s, and Starwood </li>
<li>Hands-on “maps” that guide you through key decisions you must make</li>
</ul>
The definitive guide to successfully implementing Lean Six Sigma approaches into any organization is essential for any manager who wants to stop thinking about building a continuous improvement culture―and actually make it happen. Business has changed dramatically in recent years. Being second best used to be an option; today, being the best is the only way to survive. Take charge of your company’s future and make positive changes The Six Sigma Way.

The Six Sigma Way: How to Maximize the Impact of Your Change and Improvement Efforts, Second edition

The Six Sigma Way: How Ge, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their Performance

This is the first book to provide basic, non-technical information on understanding and implementing Six Segma.

Amer Media Intl - McGraw Hill audio

This is the first book to provide basic, non-technical information on understanding and implementing Six Sigma.

Peter Pande, coauthor of the bestselling Six Sigma Way (also published by McGraw-Hill Audio), shows you how the same principles that create process excellence can now be applied to management success. He details twenty things reader can do to perfect the skills and habits of a successful 21st century business leader.

The Six Sigma Leader

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The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams

What is Design for Six Sigma

The Six Sigma Leader: How Top Executives Will Prevail in the 21st Century

The Six Sigma Way: How to Maximize the Impact of Your Change and Improvement Efforts, Second edition

The Six Sigma Way: How Ge, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their Performance

The Six Sigma Way: How Ge, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their Performance

The Six Sigma Leader