The extraordinary breakthrough management program--heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal--that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results. Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms around the world because it works. What is Six Sigma? It is first and foremost a business process that enables companies to increase profits dramatically by streamlining operations, improving quality, and eliminating defects or mistakes in everything a company does, from filling out purchase orders to manufacturing airplane engines. While traditional quality programs have focused on detecting and correcting defects, Six Sigma encompasses something broader: It provides specific methods to re-create the process itself so that defects are never produced in the first place. Most companies operate at a three- to four-sigma level, where the cost of defects is roughly 20 to 30 percent of revenues. By approaching Six Sigma--fewer than one defect per 3.4 million opportunities--the cost of quality drops to less than 1 percent of sales. This is because the highest quality also results in the lowest costs. When GE reduced its costs from 20 percent to less than 10 percent, it saved a billion dollars in just two years--money that goes directly to the bottom line. This is the reason Wall Street and corporations as diverse as Sony, Ford, Nokia, Texas Instruments, Canon, Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Toshiba, DuPont, and Polaroid have embarked on corporate-wide Six Sigma programs. Six Sigma should be of paramount importance to every forward-thinking executive and manager determined to make their company world-class in their industry.

Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations

Business & Money

Schroeder, Richard

Harry Ph.D., Mikel

Management & Leadership

Crown

Providing accounting students with a theoretical background with which to evaluate current accounting practice, this edition represents a major revision from its predecessors. Additional material has been added on the historical development of accounting. Approaches to accounting theory, theories on the uses of accounting information and the conceptual project are presented at the beginning of the text, and serve as a framework for the discussion of various issues throughout the book.

Accounting Theory: Text and Readings

Clark, Myrtle

John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the Worlds's Top Corporations

Read by James LurieThree Cassettes, Approx. 5 hoursSix Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms around the world because it works. What is Six Sigma? It is first and foremost a business process that enables companies to increase profits dramatically by streamlining operations, improving quality, and eliminating defects or mistakes in everything a company does. While traditional quality programs have focused on detecting and correcting defects, Six Sigma encompasses something broader: It provides specific methods to re-create the process itself so that defects are never produced in the first place. This is the reason Wall Street and corporations as diverse as Allied Signal, Honda, Maytag, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Canon Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Toshiba, Du Pont, and Polaroid have embarked on corporate wide Six Sigma programs.

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On Thanksgiving Day, 1921, a man in Waco listened intently to a series of dots and dashes coming over his crystal radio receiver. The electronic signal spelled out "T FP 8Y L." The man took off his headphones, walked over to a window, and with a megaphone yelled out that window, "Texas forward pass; eight yard loss." He was receiving the broadcast account of the annual Turkey Day football rivalry between the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas and Texas University, being played at Kyle Field in College Station and broadcast in a play-by-play, coded account over 5XB, the college's amateur radio station. For television, the early 1950s were the key years. Network television reached the state, with the first live televising of political conventions. Soon, KUHT was established in Houston as the first nation’s educational station, and KCOR in San Antonio became the first Spanish-language station in the United States. The first murder trial in broadcast history was by Waco’s KWTX. “Color Day,” the first color program in Texas and only the second local color show in the nation, was televised by WBAP in Fort Worth. For some eighty years, then, the airwaves of Texas have buzzed. Richard Schroeder traces the first fifty years of the development of broadcasting in the state from its inception through the formation of commercial stations, to the regulation of the airwaves by the federal government beginning in 1928, and beyond. He describes programming, financing, network development, and anti-regulation protest broadcasts. Filled with anecdotes gleaned from his seventy-nine oral history interviews for the project, Texas Signs On has almost the immediacy of a broadcast itself. The drama of pioneering days—radio in the 1920s, television in the 1950s—is re-created in “living color.” Throughout, the story is spiced with anecdotes and the colorful personalities that have filled the state’s airwaves (and business boardrooms) for seven decades: Dizzy Dean, Cactus Pryor, Amon Carter, Harold Hough's inception of ringing a cowbell on WBAP, sportscaster Bud Sherman, Gordon McLendon, Bob Wills, the Light Crust Doughboys, pirate radio stations, and many others. Schroeder even explains the absence of channel 1 from the old rotary VHF dials. In his engaging narrative, Schroeder offers an insight into the challenges both radio and television faced along the way and how they were overcome. This interesting, well-written book has more than nostalgia value; it offers understanding of the amateur efforts, entrepreneurial innovations, and government regulation that have marked the development of the Texas airwaves. It provides context and historical comparisons for the transitions now facing the broadcast media, and it records important oral history that might otherwise be lost. Moreover, it offers a wonderful trip down memory lane for those who experienced the early days of radio and television and still remember them fondly.

Texas Signs On: The Early Days of Radio and Television (Volume 75) (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)

Humor & Entertainment

Radio

Texas A&M University Press

A Matter of Supply and Demand

Romance

Contemporary

Trafford on Demand Pub

When a Dallas audience in 1897 viewed the first motion picture ever shown in Texas, the state began a love affair with the movies. From the early nickelodeons to later drive-ins, Texans have spent countless hours and many dollars to watch moving pictures shown in small towns and big cities alike. In a span of sixty-three years, from 1897 to 1960, Texans witnessed the rise and fall of the silent film, the introduction of “talkies,” the drive-in, and 3-D. They saw how World War II affected the movies and watched movies transform again when the advent of television brought a new kind of competition. They even had their own movie production centers in the early years. El Paso and San Antonio vied in the race to become the nation’s movie capital. In Lone Star Picture Show Richard Schroeder does more than examine the evolution of the movie industry in Texas - he re-creates the environment of the darkened movie theater. Drawing on interviews with theater managers, cashiers, projectionists, and general workers, Schroeder captures the theater-going experience of the past and uses their recollections to describe life in the movie business throughout the century. Schroder also considers the racial and ethnic makeup of Texas and the movie houses of the Hispanic and African-American communities. The fascinating and well-written narrative offers a lively glimpse into the movie palaces of the past. Those who would like to remember the days when a nickel bought a Saturday afternoon of entertainment in a palatial, darkened theater will find Lone Star Picture Shows a charming and informative slice of Texana.

Lone Star Picture Shows (Volume 2) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Movies

Six Sigma.

Harry, Mikel

Campus Fachbuch

Weistümer gesammelt von Jacob Grimm (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh

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