The Power of Six Sigma

Business & Money

Subir Chowdhury

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

This is not your boss's book on Six Sigma! The remarkable process of Six Sigma, which has been touted by such management gurus as GE's CEO, Jack Welch, is beautifully explained in this engaging, true-to-life tale. Never before has a business initiative transformed corporations so dramatically.  While it has been credited with improving productivity, slashing costs, and improving profit margins, it can cause much angst among employees who need to change the way they currently work and adhere to a new philosophy.  Corporations have seen radical change for the better, and to achieve those improvements requires radical change by employees. And it all starts with acceptance.  The Power of Six Sigma is unlike any other book on Six Sigma. This fictionalized tale simplifies a complicated topic and, through dialogue between Joe and Larry, explains the way Six Sigma works in a nonthreatening, easy-to-understand way. Everyone in the organization will learn what Six Sigma is and how it works.

Power of Six Sigma

Kaplan Business

Innovation, claims quality consultant Subir Chowdhury, is part of America’s DNA. No other country in the world matches America’s creative drive and its ability to turn innovative ideas into revolutionary products–from antilock brakes and steel-belted radial tires to sophisticated software and microprocessors. But as fast as we introduce new products, we lose the markets we establish to countries that know how to manufacture higher quality versions for less money. As Japanese and European firms win market share by concentrating on quality, America is continually forced to rely on innovation to stay ahead. In The Ice Cream Maker, Chowdhury uses a simple story to illustrate how businesses can instill quality into our culture and into every product we design, build, and market. The protagonist of the story is Peter Delvecchio, the manager of a regional ice cream company, who is determined to sell its ice cream to a flourishing national grocery chain, Natural Foods. In conversations with the Natural Foods manager, Peter learns how the extraordinarily successful retailer achieves its renowned high standard of excellence, both in the services it provides its customers and in the foods it manufactures and sells. Quality, he discovers, must be the mission of every employee; by learning to listen, enrich, and optimize, he can encourage and sustain the highest levels of quality in everything the company does. Like Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese? The Ice Cream Maker offers an essential and universal lesson about one of industry's foremost challenges in a thoroughly engaging style. For managers and executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs, The Ice Cream Maker is a compelling, eye-opening guide to the most effective ways to achieve excellence and become industry leaders on the global stage.

The Ice Cream Maker: An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality The Key Ingredient in Everything You Do

Business Culture

Doubleday/Currency

The Ice Cream Maker

Random House Digital, Inc.

No other country in the world matches america's creative drive and its ability to turn innovative ideas into revolutionary products, from antilock brakes and steel-belted radial tires to sophisticated software and microprocessors. But as fast as we introduce new products, we lose the markets we establish to countries that know how to manufacture higher quality versions for less money. As japanese and european firms win market share by concentrating on quality, america is continually forced to rely on innovation to stay ahead. In the ice cream maker, chowdhury uses a simple story to illustrate how businesses can instill quality into our culture and into every product we design, build and market. The protagonist of the story is peter delvecchio, the manager of a regional ice cream company, who is determined to sell its ice cream to a flourishing national grocery chain, natural foods. In conversations with the natural foods manager, peter learns how the extraordinarily successful retailer achieves its renowned high standard of excellence, both in the services it provides its customers and in the foods it manufactures and sells. Quality, he discovers, must be the mission of every employee by learning to listen, enrich and optimize, he can encourage and sustain the highest levels of quality in everything the company does.

Next Generation Business Handbook offers strategies for the next generation of business success from the best business schools around the world. * Presents fresh ideas from the young, up-and-coming business thinkers and experts from the world's best business schools. * Coverage of topics like career imprinting and operating in a virtual workspace that are receiving increased attention in organizations. * Organized around Chowdhury's "next generation business model."

Next Generation Business Handbook: New Strategies from Tomorrow's Thought Leaders

wiley

Talent is the true engine of the next economy. Talented people aren't simply ''knowledge workers''; they're free agents, capable of bringing enormous value to the organizations they are part of. Organizations that want to maximize the value of talent need to act in radically new ways. In this book, world-renowned quality strategist Subir Chowdhury presents a powerful new blueprint for recognizing talent, rewarding it, & making the most of it. He reveals the 7 key secrets of talent, then shows managers exactly how to measure Return on Talent (ROT) -- & exactly how to enhance it. He also shows talented individuals exactly how to maximize their own talents -- & maximize the rewards those talents can earn.

Talent Era: Achieving a High Return on Talent

Human Resources

Diane Pub Co.

Robust Optimization: World's Best Practices for Developing Winning Vehicles

Shin Taguchi

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