Lean Six Sigma For Dummies 3e - Softcover

Morgan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119067359 ISBN 13: 9781119067351

Verlag: For Dummies, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

<b>Maximise the quality and efficiency of your organisation with Lean Six Sigma</b> <p>Are you looking to make your organisation more effective and productive? If you answered "yes," you need to change the way it thinks. Combining the leading improvement methods of Six Sigma and Lean, this winning technique drives performance to the next level&#8212;and this friendly and accessible guide shows you how. The third edition of <i>Lean Six Sigma For Dummies</i> outlines the key concepts of this strategy and explains how you can use it to get the very best out of your team and your business. <p>The jargon-crowded language and theory of Lean Six Sigma can be intimidating for both beginners and experienced users. Written in plain English and packed with lots of helpful examples, this easy-to-follow guide arms you with tools and techniques for implementing Lean Six Sigma and offers guidance on everything from policy deployment to managing change in your organisation&#8212;and everything in between. <ul> <li>Gives you plain-English explanations of complicated jargon</li> <li>Serves as a useful tool for businesspeople looking to make their organisation more effective</li> <li>Helps you achieve goals with ease and confidence</li> <li>Provides useful hands-on checklists</li> </ul> <p>Whether you want to manage a project more tightly or fine-tune existing systems and processes, the third edition of <i>Lean Six Sigma For Dummies</i> makes it easier to achieve your business goals.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

<p><b>John Morgan</b> and <b>Martin Brenig&#45;Jones</b> are Directors of Catalyst Consulting, Europe&#39;s leading provider of Lean Six Sigma solutions. John works primarily in product design and development. Martin is an expert in quality and change management. Both are accomplished coaches and trainers.

John Morgan and Martin Brenig-Jones are Directors of Catalyst Consulting, Europe's leading provider of Lean Six Sigma solutions. John works primarily in product design and development. Martin is an expert in quality and change management. Both are accomplished coaches and trainers.

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Learn to:

• Enhance business efficiency and reduce waste
• Successfully deploy Lean Six Sigma projects in your organisation
• Manage projects more tightly and fine-tune existing systems
• Apply Lean Six Sigma thinking to your day-to-day activities

Make your organisation more productive with Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma combines the very best of two top business improvement techniques. The newest edition of Lean Six Sigma For Dummies gives you the tools to implement it in your organisation and make your processes more effective and efficient. No jargon here — just plain-English explanations, valuable checklists and step-by-step guidance that helps you take productivity to the next level!

• Change how your organisation thinks — examine how to incorporate the principles and concepts of Lean Six Sigma into your business DNA
• Master the methods — improve existing processes using DMAIC and develop new ones with the DMADV approach
• Enhance your focus — determine who your various customers are, what they require, and create a process map to identify exactly how to meet their needs
• Dig into the data — explore the five-step approach to data collection, figure out how to present and interpret it and develop measures to see how you're doing
• Assess the process — discover the tools and techniques that enable you to reduce waste and streamline process flow
• Roll it out — find out how to successfully deploy Lean Six Sigma and choose the right projects for the introduction

Open the book and find:

• Key principles of Lean Six Sigma
• How to pinpoint the elements of a process
• Customer-focused performance measures
• Steps in assessing performance
• How to use control charts
• Tips for interpreting value-added
• Ways to reduce risk with FMEA
• Checklists for putting the methodology in place

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Learn to:

• Enhance business efficiency and reduce waste
• Successfully deploy Lean Six Sigma projects in your organisation
• Manage projects more tightly and fine-tune existing systems
• Apply Lean Six Sigma thinking to your day-to-day activities

Make your organisation more productive with Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma combines the very best of two top business improvement techniques. The newest edition of Lean Six Sigma For Dummies gives you the tools to implement it in your organisation and make your processes more effective and efficient. No jargon here — just plain-English explanations, valuable checklists and step-by-step guidance that helps you take productivity to the next level!

• Change how your organisation thinks — examine how to incorporate the principles and concepts of Lean Six Sigma into your business DNA
• Master the methods — improve existing processes using DMAIC and develop new ones with the DMADV approach
• Enhance your focus — determine who your various customers are, what they require, and create a process map to identify exactly how to meet their needs
• Dig into the data — explore the five-step approach to data collection, figure out how to present and interpret it and develop measures to see how you're doing
• Assess the process — discover the tools and techniques that enable you to reduce waste and streamline process flow
• Roll it out — find out how to successfully deploy Lean Six Sigma and choose the right projects for the introduction

Open the book and find:

• Key principles of Lean Six Sigma
• How to pinpoint the elements of a process
• Customer-focused performance measures
• Steps in assessing performance
• How to use control charts
• Tips for interpreting value-added
• Ways to reduce risk with FMEA
• Checklists for putting the methodology in place

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1119067359
• ISBN 13: 9781119067351
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: FOR DUMMIES; danilo.gaviraghi@hoepli.it; ; Via Hoepli 5; Milano; 20121; Italien